The lineage

The Disciples of the 38th Generation

Six students are formally discipled under Sifu Michael Johnson, the Wei Family 衛 Patriarch for the United States. They stand in line to inherit the family genealogy and to carry the complete system forward.

The Patriarch

Sifu Michael Johnson

38th Generation Chief Inheritor, Wei Family Kung Fu · 8th Duan

Wei Family Patriarch for the United States

Sifu Johnson leads the Wei Family core curriculum: Emperor's Long Fist, Tzu Jan Men (Natural Fist), Tai Chi, Xing Yi, Bagua, combat jujitsu, and the internal methods of the tradition. He is the third president of the school and the lineage's chief inheritor.

The disciples below were accepted by him, train under him, and answer to him for the system they will one day pass on.

What a disciple is

Accepted into the family, responsible for all of it

In a kung fu lineage, a disciple is a student who has been formally accepted into the teacher's family. It is a ceremony and a lifelong relationship, and it sits apart from rank. A student who is discipled takes on the responsibility to preserve the complete system as it was given, to train it honestly, and to pass it on to the next generation without leaving pieces out.

The Wei Family 衛 system has been carried this way for thirty-eight generations. Sifu Johnson holds it now. The people on this page are the ones he has chosen to hold it next.