Master’s Biography

Master Qu is a director of the Yantai Martial Arts Association, the President of the Winter Sweet Flower Wrestling Hand Mantis Research Association, a member of the Chinese Martial Arts Association, has achieved the Chinese Martial Arts International grade of Band 7, is a Grade one Chinese martial arts international instructor, and the headmaster of Yantai Traditional Kungfu School. He is an expert in both internal and external martial arts. He is currently ranked at level 8 in Chinese Martial Arts.

Master Qu began to learn Shaolin Fist at the age of 9 and progressed to Gongshi Ba Gua Palm when he was 11 years old. He was then honored with the opportunity to study Mantis Fist under Shifu XuWanlong (5th generation authentic Mantis Fist Master) and he was accepted as his 6th closed-door disciple. He learnt elementary, mid-level and advanced level Mantis Boxing including fist form and weapons (such as short staff, long staff, single broadsword, double sword, spear, dagger, hook, etc) and excelled in the mantis double-hand straight sword. After learning Mantis Boxing comprehensively, Master Qu spent many years studying various styles and forms of Gong Fu including Xingyi Fist, Taiji Fist and Dacheng Fist through visiting famous martial artists and doing friendly combat with them throughout domestic China.

He specializes in sparring and Chinese Internal health-keeping Kungfu. The Characteristics of his Kungfu are: fast and accurate, soft but powerful. Having begun teaching from the age of 25, Master Qu has developed his own distinctive style and prides himself in his ability to adapt and tailor his lessons to students?individual requirements. He has taken many of his students to national and provincial competitions and has won numerous gold plates. His students around the world are a testament to his skill, perfectionism, professionalism, patience and teaching ability.

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Master Wang was born in 1970. He began learning Shaolin martial arts when he was only 6 years old. Due to the social turbulence at the time he learned in hiding from an old Shaolin Master. He mastered the four significant and famous styles in Shaolin Fist: Cha Fist, Hong Fist, Hua Fist and Cannon Fist. Also he learned Shaolin Chi kung, Sanda (Chinese kick-boxing) and Shaolin 18 weapons.

He specializes in Shaolin Iron Hand and Qin Na. These forms retain the old Shaolin form perfectly and have an extremely high value in both combat and demonstration. The characteristics of his kungfu are: hard, cruel and startlingly effective.

In 1987 he joined the Chinese Special Forces and in 1988 he came first in the national Special Forces competition. Subsequently he was appointed head teacher for martial arts in his troop. During his time in the Army, he learned Xingyi Quan and patrimonial Fengseng Quan from famous local masters.

In 1990 he came first on Shaolin Fist form in the National Martial Arts Competition of China. In 1992 he became champion in the Jiangsu provincial Sanda competition. In 1993 he came second in the national Sanda competition. In 1995 he won the gold plate in the National Hard Chi kung Competition. He is currently ranked at level 7. He has wide and varied experience on which to base his martial arts teaching and thoroughly enjoys imparting his knowledge to his students.

Master Cui, 40 years old, International Band One Chinese Martial Arts Master. He started learning Shaolin martial arts when he was six from his father who used to be a Shaolin warrior monk. He learnt shaolin fist forms and weapons comprehensively since that time. He learnt Chen style Taichi from a great Chen Style Taichi master for 8 years when he was 17 years old, then learnt Xingyi and Preying Mantis Boxing. He has been working as a master since 1996 for more than 10 years in Yantai Laishan Martial arts Association and has accumulated good teaching experience. During this time, he took many students to enter the martial arts competition and they received many individual and collective prizes, such as the individual First place award in the Youth Group Chen Style Taichi and collective Second place awarded in the National Martial Arts Competition held in 1998. In the year 2000, they got a First place award for Shaolin and a First place award for Taichi in the Shandong Martial arts Championship competition. In the same year, Master Cui got the first place award on the Chen Style Taichi Form Competition in Qingdao International Martial Arts.

Xia Laoshi majored in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Tuina at the Chinese Sports University and graduated in 1996.

During his school days, he studied under Wang Hongxun, a well known Tuina master in China, who is famous for treating acute and chronic diseases in motor parenchyma. Since graduation, he has been practicing clinical work and teaching Tuina. He works very hard studying Tuina techniques, characteristics and theories, and applies them in the clinical practice to examine their effects. He combines them in his teaching, thus forming his own techniques and theories.

He has written Sport Tuina Treatment and Medical Tuina Treatment. He has been teaching for over ten years. He has a rigorous teaching style and good medical ethics. Having a wealth of experience in teaching and treatment, he is very popular with students and patients. He is good at treating common or complicated diseases in traumatology and internal medicine. In the Tuina treatment, he stresses the syndrome differentiation and treatment of soft tissues and boney tissues and puts more emphasis on the guiding theory of diagnosis, namely treating according to symptoms and causes of diseases .