Master Pedro Cepero Yee

4th Generation From Wong Fei Hung

· Carrying the Spirit of the Ancestors · Bridging past and present · Establishing the future from the lineage he guards ·

Master Pedro Cepero Yee (余彼祖) (Sifu, 10th Dan) is a Senior Disciple and legally adopted son of Hung Ga Kung Fu Grandmaster Frank Yee (Yee Chee Wai). He is the World President of Yee's Hung Ga International Kung Fu Association, as well as a 4th Generation Disciple of Great Grandmaster Wong Fei Hung. Master Pedro Cepero Yee is the Honorable Vice Chairman of the Grandmaster Yuen Ling Hong Kong Martial Arts International Association, as well as the Co-Vice Chairman of the World Hung Kuen Association, Ltd., Hong Kong, being its only non-Asian Board Member.
A local Filipino family introduced Master Pedro Cepero Yee to the martial arts at the age of six, learning “stick games” (Arnis) and making throwing stars out of sheet metal. During this time, he also studied with friends in the arts of Taekwondo and Goju Ryu Karate. At the age of ten, a family friend and extremely well-versed kung fu practitioner named Howard Campbell taught Pedro what he would later discover was the Hung Ga set “Fook Fu Kuen”. His formal “in-school” Kung Fu training began in the Ving Tsun (Wing Chun) kung fu style under Master Lee Moy Shan, training specifically with a senior disciple, Sifu Steve Goericke, during his early teens, and later with Master William Cheung. He also found time to study Shuai Jiao under Master Peter Chema, Tai Chi Chuan under Master Chen Wei Gun, and Double-End Pole under Village Style Hung Ga Master Tom Jan.

Master Pedro Cepero Yee began his Hung Ga Kung Fu studies with Grandmaster Yee Chee Wai at his New York Chinatown Bowery Street school and Traumatology Clinic. He learned privately from Grandmaster Yee, as this location was so small that private instruction was necessary. In 1986, the school moved to a larger location on Grand Street, where both group and private lessons could be taught. In 1987, Master Pedro became a Yap Moon Disciple of Grandmaster Yee. It was at this time that he became an instructor for private lessons at the school on Saturdays, as well as the chief instructor for the Yee’s Family Association (Yee Fong Toy) on Bayard Street in NYC’s Chinatown. He also began learning Dit Da Medicine hands-on while assisting his teacher, as this was the busiest day of the week for injured patients needing care.
Master Pedro Cepero Yee began competing in Kung Fu forms, weapons, and fighting as he was planning to open a school of his own, knowing that he needed to make a name in both the national and international Chinese martial arts community to become successful. Between 1989 and 1991, Pedro Yee was consistently ranked in the top three in forms, weapons, and fighting. In 1990, he became the NACMAF National Internal Champion using the Iron Wire form and was a key member of the 1990 National Lion Dance Championship Team, along with his SiHing Tony Franco and the rest of the Yee’s players. In 1991, he became the Tiger Balm International Southern Kung Fu Champion in San Francisco; during that year, he established the Clifton, NJ Branch of Yee’s Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy. In 1993, he coached and traveled with his first international full-contact team competing in Toronto, Canada, earning Gold and Silver medals in all divisions. In 1996, Grandmaster Yee and Master Pedro Yee inaugurated the Wong Fei Hung Northeastern All Kung Fu Championships, which ran for thirteen consecutive years and was the fourth-largest championship of its kind in the USA. During those years, Pedro also helped promote the Eastern United States Kung Fu Federation’s tournaments in NYC’s Chinatown on Mott Street at the Chinese Community Center. Pedro Yee was first elected Deputy Secretary for the Eastern United States Kung Fu Federation, then later elected Vice President. He also held positions with the United Kung Fu Federation of North America, the United States Traditional Kung Fu Wushu Federation, the United International Kung Fu Federation, and SOBBA (Society of Black Belts of America), as well as his latest appointment in 2017 as Co-Vice Chairman of The World Hung Kuen Association, Ltd. (Hong Kong) and Honorable Vice Chairman of the Grandmaster Yuen Ling Hong Kong Martial Arts International Association, and USA Chairman of the Tang Fong International Martial Arts Friendship Association.

Master Pedro Cepero Yee is a well-published author, having written over 50 feature articles for such prestigious magazines as Inside Kung Fu, Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, Wu Gong Journal, Ancient Sets of Kung Fu, and Hong Kong’s New Martial Hero Magazine. His article, “Hung Ga from Canton to New York,” is permanently on display at the Huang Fei Hong (Wong Fei Hung) Museum, the ancestral home of the style, in Foshan, China. He recently became the first non-Asian person to appear on the cover of the Hong Kong magazine New Martial Hero (Fall 2005) in its 35-year history. He also appeared on the cover, alongside his Sifu, in Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine (May/June 2006 issue). Pedro Yee also served as Editor-in-Chief for his teacher’s landmark book, The Authentic Teachings of Wong Fei Hung: The Five Animal Form, released in September 2014. In November 2014, Pedro became the Senior Division Gold Medal World Champion in the style’s most advanced set, Tit Sin Kuen (Iron Wire Set), at the “Huang Feihong Cup” International Hung Kuen Competition held in Xiqiao, Foshan, China, as judged by the leaders of the different lineages descended from Wong Fei Hung (Huang Feihong).
Master Pedro Cepero Yee has also appeared in newspapers in the USA, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe, and has appeared on all major news networks. He was featured in many martial arts documentaries in China, Korea, and the USA, such as China’s GDTV landmark series, which ran for seven years, Search for the Twenty Heroes of China, as well as others. A Korean documentary featuring Korean martial artists were encouraged by other Korean Masters, to include Master Pedro and his students demonstrating Hung Ga Kung Fu´s theory, fighting and technique. Pedro Yee was also featured in Urban Dragons: Black and Latino Masters of Chinese Martial Arts. Telemundo’s feature documentary highlighted Master Pedro and his school for their Beijing Olympic Special. His lion dancing skills were also featured in PBS’s Salute to Song and Dance: Sesame Street’s 25-Year Anniversary Special, among others.

Master Pedro Cepero Yee is known for his Traditional Chinese Medical skills and has extensive training in Dit Da Traumatology under his teacher, Frank Yee; Tuina Chinese Bodywork Therapy under Bill Helm, Tao Shih; and Medical Qigong Therapy, Qigong Methods, and Qi Healing under Grandmaster Tzu Kuo Shih, OMD. He has also studied Ba Duan Jin Qigong extensively under his good friend, Baguazhang Master Chen Yan, and Swedish Massage Therapy from Kitty Leer, the most senior pioneer of Swedish Massage Therapy in the USA, at her Helma Institute of Massage Therapy.
Pedro Yee continues to lead his disciples across the world, as his students and grand-students have established Kung Fu schools in Scotland, England, the Czech Republic, Berlin (Germany), El Salvador, Italy, and in many states across the USA. Many of them have become champions in international full-contact competition in the USA, China, and abroad. Today, he instructs workshops both nationally and internationally on Hung Ga Kung Fu, Tuina Therapy, Medical Qigong Therapy, and Qigong Methods, and has been featured in Forbes for his three greatest teachings that can influence today’s entrepreneurs. All of his methods and skills, as well as clinical services, are offered at his full-time Clifton, New Jersey Branch School and Clinic (the Center for Tuina and Qigong Therapy), which has operated continuously since 1991.

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