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Robert A. Arel Grandmaster Foo Wei Zhong
Robert A. Arel  Bob's study of eastern health and martial arts methods has spanned over thirty-five years.  His external martial arts background includes Tae Kwon Do, Kempo, Kenpo, Ju Jitsu, Judo, Aikido, and Phillipino Eskrima.

Bob is currently studying internal martial arts under Master Jeffrey Guiffre in Wu Style Tai Chi and is a disciple of Master Foo Wei Zhong in the Er Mei Linji System of Healing Arts.

Bob developed a martial art called Jukido, from 35 years of study with highly skilled martial arts teachers, all with their unique styles.  With over 25 years of experience in Qi Gong (Energy Cultivation), Bob's main focus is health and healing.

Bob acknowledges, with great appreciation, the contributions throughout his career of the following martial arts teachers:

  • Grandmaster Foo Wei Zhong, China's Medical Buddha, nicknamed The Wizard and lineage holder of the Er Mei Linji (Sudden Enlightenment) School of healing Arts which was founded in 1227 AD.

  • Grandmaster Mike Inay, Inayann Martial Arts Training Organization, Inayan Kadena de Mano style of Eskrima.

  • The Great Master Wang, Peisheng, Wu Style Tai Chi, Yin Cheng Association.

  • Grandmaster Tai Musashi, Ninjitsu, Musashi Family Clan.

  • Grandmaster Remy Presas, Modern Arnis.

  • Grandmaster Daniel K. Pai, Pai Lum Kung Fu, White Dragon System.

  • Grandmaster Fu Zhong Wen, Yang Style Tai Chi.

  • Master Larry Kelly, Kenpo Karate (Karate Chop).

  • Master Donald Bittner, International Karate Academy (Kempo Karate).

  • Master Decker, American Ju Jitsu Institute.

  • Master Yoshimitsu Yamada, Aikido (Nonatuck Aikikai) Mike and Mutska.

  • Master Giles Hopkins, World Tae Kwan Do Association Chung Duk Kwan and Okihawan Kubado.

  • Master Kimo Wall, Goju Ryu Karate Do Kobudo (Okinawa Kodokan).

  • Master Marty Ferricks, Academy of Martial Arts, Inc., Moo-Duk-Kwan and Ju Jutsu.

  • Master Thomas Mitchell, Academy of Martial Arts, Inc.

  • Master Oonagh Perdue, Tai Chi Chih.

  • Master Judy M. Kolesar, J.M.K Karate (Ed Parker Kenpo).

  • Master Kevin Schoenebeck, Oneida Healthworks Fitness Center (Inayan Kadena de Mano).

  • Master Lex Lee, Lee-Jiu-Jitsu and Nin-Jitsu.

  • Master Yang Jwing-Ming, Qi Gong.

  • Master Jeffrey J. Guiffre, Wu-Style Tai Chi and White Dragon System of inward Kung-Fu (Master Training Systems).

  • Master Lu, Bagua Zhang and Hsing Yi Chuan.
His Holiness Grandmaster
Foo Wei Zhong

His holiness Grandmaster Foo Wei Zhong, the 13th Patriarch and the “Robe-and-Bowl” Lineage Holder of the Chinese Er Mei School of Qi Gong, is an internationally renowned Qi Gong master in China. At age 6, he began his study of traditional Chinese medicine under the tutelage of his grandfather, a famous doctor whose father was an imperial doctor at the court of the Qing, the last Chinese feudal dynasty. At age 12, Grandmaster Foo started to practice medicine. Because of his extraordinary healing skills, he was called a “wizard.” At about the same time, he became a student of Luo Xingwu, the eminent Chinese martial arts master, and learned various Chinese martial arts, such as Shaolin Boxing, Bagua Boxin, Xingyi Boxing, etc. He later taught martial arts at the Beijing Dongcheng District Martial Arts School for two years (1976-77). At age 18, he opened his own clinic in northeastern China and began his medical practice using traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, acupuncture and moxibustion, and massage. For eight years, he successfully treated numerous sick people and sick animals. Because of his success, he was respectfully addressed by local people as ‘the Minor Deity.” At age 28, he was personally selected by His Holiness Grandmaster Ju Zan, The Supreme abbot of All-China Buddhism, Taoism, traditional Chinese medicine, Tai-ji Quan, Qi Gong, feng shui, future prediction, and other Dharma methods exclusively transmitted within the Er Mei Linji School of Buddhism. After eight years of study under Grandmaster Ju Zan’s personal guidance, he received the “robe and bowl” of the Er Mei School of Qi Gong and became the 13th lineage holder.

Grandmaster Foo is a learned scholar, having read thousands of classics, Chinese and foreign, and is well versed in the medical theories of different schools, Chinese and Western. While reading and learning he took careful notes and wrote down his reflections which number over three million words. So far, he has published six books and more than twenty treatises, the total publication numbering two million words. At age 30, he began to tour China to lecture on Qi Gong and medicine. In the meantime, he treated numerous patients in whose rank are found common folks as well as eminent statesmen and renowned personages like the late paramount Chinese leader, Deng Xiao-ping. Using Qi Gong and traditional Chinese herbal medicine, he successfully cured tens of thousands of patients.

Since then, he has made arduous efforts to promote his “Family Doctor Plan” (Household Medical Care Plan—each family trains one amateur doctor who can diagnose and treat his/her own family members). His rigorous promotion and excellent teaching attracted approximate two million students from all parts of China. Among them, there are over 500,000 backbone members who have received higher levels of training.  In the past 30 years, he has done his utmost to improve the health and medical care of the Chinese people.  In the field of Qi Gong and traditional Chinese medicine, he has made pioneering achievements.  Since age 36, he has been recognized as one of the most prominent grandmasters of Qi Gong and traditional medicine in China.  People in China have bestowed on him the title, “China’s Medical Buddha.”

Before he came to the United States, Grandmaster Foo was lifetime president of two Qi Gong institutions: the International Medical Qi Gong Academy and the Er Mei Linji International Qi Gong Medical Research Institute. In addition, he held honorary positions and titles in more than 50 hospitals, medical colleges, Qi Gong clinics, and Qi Gong associations.

Since he came to the United States in 1995, Grandmaster Foo has determined to transmit all his knowledge and skills in traditional Chinese medicine and Qi Gong to the American public. So far, he has given lectures and teaching workshops in over 20 American cities and transmitted his Er Mei Qi Gong diagnosis and treatment methods to hundreds o students. He was invited to the University of San Francisco and the University of California-San Diego to lecture on Qi Gong. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, regularly teaching some curriculum-required courses on the Er Mei methodology of Qi emission for diagnosis and treatments (credits for these courses are required for the award of degrees at this college). In 1996, he participated in an experiment at the Atlantic Tumor Hospital in California concerning the emission of Qi Gong energy for the treatment of cancer. It achieved positive initial results and is on-going.