Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming is a renowned author and teacher of Chinese martial arts and Qigong. He was bornin Taiwan, and started his wushu or kung fu training at the age of fifteen. He became an expert in theWhite Crane style of Chinese martial arts, which includes both the use of Read more…
Ismet Himmet has been studying martial arts since 1985. After becoming a disciple of the Wudang Xuan Wu Pai, he opened Wudang Deutschland, the first live-in martial arts academy in Germany. Subsequently, he returned to China and became the first foreigner to open a school on Mt. Wudang. He currently Read more…
Ken Gullette has been studying martial arts for 50 years. Since 1987, he has specialized in the internal arts of Taijiquan, Xingyiquan and Baguazhang. His main focus is Chen style Taijiquan. Since 1998, he has learned from instructors including Jim and Angela Criscimagna, Mark Wasson, Chen Xiaowang, Chen Xiaoxing, Chen Read more…
Livia Kohn is a Professor Emerita of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University. She graduated from Bonn University, Germany, in 1980 and spent six years at Kyoto University in Japan before joining Boston University in 1988. Kohn has authored or edited close to sixty books, including the annual Read more…
Shifu Jonathan Bluestein (LL.b) is a renowned teacher and scholar of Traditional Chinese Martial Arts, and a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Hailing from Israel, Shifu Bluestein has written and published 9 different books, of which several are about the martial arts. Two of his books, ‘Research of Martial Read more…