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Yang Zhen Duo

Image taken from • The Yang Family History Fine Art Book • www.martialgraphics.com Image by Marco Gagnon

Yang Zhen Duo, born in 1926, began studying the art of Tai Chi Chuan at age 6 with his father and elder brothers. He studied assiduously and was good at research, and was able to grasp the essence of Tai Chi. His Tai Chi skill is consummate and demonstrated with a natural poise. Yang Zhen Duo’s disposition is tolerant and kind, simple hearted and honest. He teaches patiently, carefully and meticulously. Modest and unassuming as was his father, he has come to receive the deep admiration and esteem of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan enthusiasts. Zhen Duo carries on the aspirations of his ancestors, dedicating himself to the popularization and spread of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. Since the early 1960′s on, he has lived in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, teaching Tai Chi Chuan. In 1982 he founded the Shanxi Province Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association, now with students in Shanxi Province alone numbering in the tens of thousands. Many times he has been invited and traveled to America, France, Italy, Germany, England, Sweden, Canada, Brazil, Singapore, and other countries to hold seminars. Making an impression at home and abroad, Yang Zhen Duo has helped allow Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan to promote the ties of friendship between the citizens of China and the rest of the world.

Yang Zhen Guo

Image taken from • The Yang Family History Fine Art Book • www.martialgraphics.com Image by Marco Gagnon

Yang Zhen Guo, born in 1928, started studying at an early age the Tai Chi passed on by his family. He lives in Hebei Province, Handan City, and for many years looked after his mother. He has ceaselessly taught Tai Chi Chuan all around the local area. He once visited Taiwan, and has made a fairly significant contribution towards the development of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. Zhen Guo has three daughters and two sons, Yong Fang being the first and Zhi Fang the second son.

Yang Jun

Image taken from • The Yang Family History Fine Art Book • www.martialgraphics.com Image by Marco Gagnon

Born in 1968 in Taiyuan, Master Yang Jun is the 6th Generation descendant of the creator of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. Son of Yang Dao Fang and grandson of Master Yang Zhen Duo, Yang Jun is the future bearer of the Yang Family heritage.

Master Yang Jun began his training with Master Yang Zhen Duo when he was only 5 years old. He is proficient in Tai Chi Chuan, Sword, Saber, Push Hands, and many other forms of Tai Chi. Beginning in 1982 when they went to Singapore, Master Yang Zhen Duo has taken Yang Jun with him whenever he traveled abroad to teach. Now, after nearly twenty years and dozens of seminars around the world, Yang Jun has become a teacher in his own right. His skill is unquestioned. His forms seamlessly combine softness with hardness, finesse with flair, and restraint with expression.

Since 1995, Yang Jun has served as the Vice President of Operations and Training of the Shanxi Province Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association with over 30,000 members in his hometown province of Shanxi. In October 1998 Yang Jun created the International Association and has served as President since. In August of 1999 Yang Jun moved to Seattle with his wife Fang Hong to formally begin working for the International Association and to establish a school in Seattle. Yang Jun represents the first member of the Yang Family to live outside of China.

Master Yang Jun graduated from Shanxi University in 1989 with a degree in physical education. In 1995 the Chinese WuShu Academy recognized him as a famous WuShu master in Shanxi Province. In 1996 he was certified as the highest level national judge and served as the head judge at the 1998 National Tai Chi Chuan Competition in China.

by Master Yang Jun, 6^th Generation

Yang Jun

Born in 1968 in Taiyuan, Master Yang Jun is the 6th Generation descendant of the creator of Yang Style Tai Chi C

huan. Son of Yang Dao Fang and grandson of Master Yang Zhen Duo, Yang Jun is the future bearer of the Yang Family heritage.

Master Yang Jun began his training with Master Yang Zhen Duo when he was only 5 years old. He is proficient in Tai Chi Chuan, Sword, Saber, Push Hands, and many other forms of Tai Chi. Beginning in 1982 when they went to Singapore, Master Yang Zhen Duo has taken Yang Jun with him whenever he traveled abroad to teach. Now, after nearly twenty years and dozens of seminars around the world, Yang Jun has become a teacher in his own right. His skill is unquestioned. His forms seamlessly combine softness with hardness, finesse with flair, and restraint with expression.

Since 1995, Yang Jun has served as the Vice President of Operations and Training of the Shanxi Province Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association with over 30,000 members in his hometown province of Shanxi. In October 1998 Yang Jun created the International Association and has served as President since. In August of 1999 Yang Jun moved to Seattle with his wife Fang Hong to formally begin working for the International Association and to establish a school in Seattle. Yang Jun represents the first member of the Yang Family to live outside of China.

Master Yang Jun graduated from Shanxi University in 1989 with a degree in physical education. In 1995 the Chinese WuShu Academy recognized him as a famous WuShu master in Shanxi Province. In 1996 he was certified as the highest level national judge and served as the head judge at the 1998 National Tai Chi Chuan Competition in China.

Shi Heng Yi, 35th Generation Shaolin Kung Fu Apprentice.

Shi Heng Yi / Daniel Corona has dedicated his life and efforts to travel the world looking for the best teachers in Eastern arts and to transmit his learnings in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries. His work has been recognized by various organizations and celebrities in Mexico and abroad. He has participated in numerous media outlets in Latin America and the US:

On the cover of “Mundo Marcial” magazine, in “Area Deportiva” magazine, in El Universal‘s magazine “La Revista”, twice in the widely distributed journal Excélsior, in Sanborn’s “Sólo para ti” magazine, in MVS Radio‘s with Fernanda Tapia and Martín Achirica, in Radio Ibero 90.9 with Emilio Gallardo, in Radio Universitaria UFM Alterna with Paco López, in Televisa Deportes with Armando Valencia (in Morelos), in Televisa’s“Los Reporteros”, in TV Azteca with Claudia Álvarez, in Canal 40 with Ana María Salazar, in Jaime Mausán’s “Tercer Milenio” magazine, as a martial arts choreographer in Cinepantera’s film “Lake Tahoe”, as an instructor in the Kellog’s Nutrición y Deporte and in National Geographic with Sifu Shi Yan Ming. (Gallery)

As a writer in the magazines “Artes Marciales de México,” “Mundo Marcial” and “Defensa Personal”. As an editor in Mina Group and Berbera Editores’s magazine “Kung Fu”. As the editor of the Gaceta de Artes Marciales del TSM AC.

In 1985, he begins studying Shito Ryu Karate Do with Roberto Hernandez, who later would serve as the Mexican National Team’s Head Coach.

In 1990, his father initiated him in the practice of Tai Chi Chuan , which he had learned from Chie Ming Xie, a distinguished professor of the Beijing Normal University, and a Chinese soldier. However, at his young age, he did not pay much attention to it and he chose to practice Kung Fu, and went through different schools from 1995 onwards.

In 1996, while he has a Computer Science student, he created the first Chinese Martial Arts web portal in Mexico, KungFu.com.mx, which remains a hub for martial artists to date.

In 2001, he obtains his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and joins the staff of Mexican “Artes Marciales” magazine, under the direction of Juan Chía, and published by Editorial Mina. There, he begins working as a graphic designer and web programmer, and later as a columnist, writing about Eastern culture and sports. When, in 2005, the magazine closed down and became “Kung Fu” magazine, Corona took the position of Co-Editor in the founding team.

In 2003, he met Master Yang Jun, a 6th Generation Descendant of the Yang Family, creators of the most popular Tai Chi Chuan style in the world, and begins the preparations to bring him to Mexico. He became his student and an official member of the International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association in Seattle, USA. He remains to be so to this date. It is under the instruction of Master Yang that he retakes interest in Tai Chi Chuan.

In September 2004, he traveled to New York to study under Shi Yan Ming, an authentic 34th Generation Shaolin Monk, from whom he receives his Buddhist name. He becames his disciple and contact in Mexico and Latin America. He remains his student to date.

In 2005, he travels with Shi Yan Ming to Chile to create the Chile Shaolin Temple, under the direction of Shi Heng Shi (Gustavo Ponce).

In 2006, he traveled to Thunder Bay, Canada, invited by the Yang family and master Peng You Lian from the Beijing Normal University, to attend the First International Forum on Taijiquan 2006, with the living descendants of the five families that created Tai Chi Chuan and the former coach of the Chinese National Wushu Team, Zeng Nailiang, for all of whom he presents a demonstration of his skills in Tai Chi. He was evaluated by Chen Zheng Lei, direct descendant of Chen Wangting, creator of Tai Chi Chuan.

In March 2007, he was appointed Yang Family’s representative in Mexico and Central America by master Yang Jun.

In 2008, he travels to Argentina with master Shi Yan Ming, to found the Argentina Shaolin Temple, a branch of the USA Shaolin Temple, with Juan Manuel Escobar, representative in Argentina.

In September 2008, he went on a learning tour with master Shi Yan Ming, visiting the best Wushi schools in the People’s Republic of China, among which the famous Jin Woo Federation and Shi Xiao Long school (the largest in the world) in Shaolin Dengfeng stand out.

Currently, he is doing a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and continues learning under his masters, Yang Jun, Sifu Shi Yan Ming, Peng You Lian and Randy Willias. Together, they have founded the Templo Shaolin de México AC, where the real teachings of their traditions are taught.

Downloads:
*Televisa “Los Reporteros” choose to be comfortable with yourself. – Video – Interview with Heng Yi TSM
*The Best of Martial Arts – Video Interview with Heng Yi, Channel 40

Yang Chengfu Tai Chi Chuan Center Mexico
Calzada de Acoxpa 343, 3er piso
casi esq. Viaducto Tlalpan
Del. Tlalpan, Distrito Federal
Tel. [+52] (55) 5594-6501

Escuela Kung Fu Wushi Daodi
Prof. Mario Saucedo
Av. Conchitas 2725, Casi Esq. Quebrada
Tel. [+52] (33) 3208 7046
Residencial Loma Bonita, Zapopan, Jalisco

Club Loto Blanco
Prof. Rodrigo Sheng
Av. Santiago #12, Col. Santa Martha
Tel. [+52] 55 2921 1492
Acatitla, near Ermita Iztapalapa