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NWTCCA was formed in the mid 1970's in Seattle WA under the direction of Tchoung Ta-tchen, by his senior students.
The Old Form of Yang Style Symmetrical t'ai-chi ch'uan Form and NWTCCA System was developed By Grandmaster Tchoung Ta-tchen. It is based on the method of Yang Shao-hou and his father Yang Chien-hou. It has some subtle differences from the more common Yang Cheng-fu form.
NWTCCA is essentially a branch of the Chinese Tai Chi Chuan Association based in Vancouver BC Canada, which in turn is a branch of the Chinese Tai Chi Chuan Association of Taiwan.
Grandmaster Tchoung taught in Taiwan, Hunan, Gabon, South Africa before teaching in Canada and the United States. NWTCCA is the Official USA Branch of CTCCA.
This T'ai-chi ch'uan (Taijiquan) method comes from the Yang Chien-hou - Yang Shao-hou Lineage through Tian Shaolin and Hsiung Yang-ho primarily. Tian studied with Yang Chien-hou and Yang Shao-hou. He is also officially in the Yang Cheng-fu lineage. Hsiung Yang-ho was a disciple of Yang Shao-hou.
Tchoung's Ch'i kung (qigong) comes from the O'mei (Emei) Mountain 峨眉山 Monastery in Sichuan province of Western China. He also learned Ta Cheng Ch'uan (Dachengquan) and the Natural School of Boxing.
Additionally Pa-kua Chang (Bagua zhang) and Hsing-I Ch'uan (Xing Yi quan) is taught to supplement the Tchoung-Yang system.
The NWTCCA Curriculum includes:
O'mei Ch'i Kung, (Emei qigong)
Old form of Yang style Long Form (220),
Pushing Hands, Ta Lu,
Partner San Shou Application Form (96),
Tchoung Fast Form (81),
T'ai Chi Sword, Chien (Jien) Long form
T'ai-chi Broadsword, Tao (Dao)
Double Sword,
Kunlun Sword,
Three Power Sword,
T'ai-chi Walking stick,
Tai Chi Spear/Long Staff,
Partner Sword,
Tai-chi Partner broadsword,
Partner t'ai-chi walking stick,
Partner short sticks, double sticks
Pa-kua chang (Baguazhang) (Cheng Ting-hua style),
Hsing-i ch'uan. (Xing Yi quan)
Some instructors teach Other forms in addition to the Tchoung System. Those forms include:
Yang 108 Form,
Cheng Man-ch'ing 37 form,
Kuang P'ing, also spelled Guang Ping, Form,
Kuang P'ing Ch'i kung
Chen Style form,
Wu Style,
Sun Style
Hao Style
Aikido,
Aikijitsu,
Red Boat Style Shaolin (Wing Chun, Southern Praying Mantis, Etc)
Northern Shaolin (Moslem style)
Tien Shan Ch'i Kung,
Wild Goose Ch'i Kung,
Soaring Crane Ch'i Kung,
Pa-kua ch'i kung,
Systema,
Southern California Classes are found at:
The University of California Riverside Student Recreation Center, 827-5731
http://www.recreation.ucr.edu
Riverside Community College, 222-8090 (Seniors Classes) Young At Heart
Redlands Aikikai, http://www.aikidoredlands.org (909) 335-5411
Loma Linda University Drayson Center, 558-4975
Additional classes are listed at Ron's site at http://www.dotaichi.com
Seattle Classes
Seattle classes are based at the Xi Qi Shen Dojo in Ballard, site is www.wuji.com
Contact Sifu Andrew Dale for more information on WA classes.
Spokane Classes are through the Community Colleges of Spokane Institute for Extended Learning. Check with IEL for locations.
http://northwesttaichichuan.org For more information on Spokane WA Classes. Contact Daniel Brasher, Kevin Harms, and Bernie Elmendorf.
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The following is a list of Directly Trained and Certified Instructors by Grandmaster Tchoung are (In Random order):
United States of America
In the United States the Original 5 NWTCCA Certified Teachers (Sifu) who are both NWTCCA and CTCCA members (Pictured above with Grandmaster Tchoung at the public certification ceremony):
Carey Brooks (?)
Andrew Dale (Seattle) www.wuji.com
David Harris OBM (Seattle) www.wuji.com
Harvey Kurland (Riverside) www.dotaichi.com
Don Scott (Seattle) www.wuji.com
Canada
Chinese Tai Chi Chuan Association Canadian Certifed Teachers (Sifu) (CTCCA) are:
see the complete list at http://www.dotaichi.com
Phyllis Tchoung, Richmond B.C.
Tim Glasheen, Vancouver, B.C.
Peter Dickson, Terrace & Kittimat, B.C.
John Camp, White Rock, B.C.
Laurens Lee, Vancouver, B.C,
Eric Eastman, originally in Nelson, is now teaching in Chile
Gordon Toy, Vancouver, B.C.
Eddie Fung, Halifax
Tony Chen
Michael Juzenas
Tran Wu, Ontario
Patrick Carter Vancouver
Kim Ray, Vancouver
Sean Carney originally in Vancouver is now in Austin. Texas http://softanswertaichi.com/about-teacher/index.html
His site has the National Geographic Picture of Sifu Tchoung and some Vancouver Students in 1978.
Other Teachers of the Tchoung System who were trained by Students of Tchoung Ta-tchen and were given permission to teach include:
California
Joseph Adams (Riverside) www.dotaichi.com
Asatar Bair (San Francisco) http://www.myspace.com/asatar
Tom Barret (Riverside) www.dotaichi.com
Eric Mummert (Riverside) www.dotaichi.com
Stephen Bay, (Corona) http://www.anivisi.com/taichi/pages/home.html
Quresh Latif (UC Riverside) www.dotaichi.com
Kurt Erthner (UC Riverside)
Joe Pagan (Riverside)
Alex Gomez (Riverside, CA - Spain)
Tim Greek (Riverside, CA)
Robert Perry (Riverside, CA)
Victoria Cajipe (UC Riverside)
Karin Casey (RCC)
Ron Sahli (Cerritos) www.dotaichi.com
Suzane Langhorne (Riverside)
Connie Confer (Riverside)
Ruth Villalobos (Santa Cruz)
Edna McCollum (San Bernardino)
Grace Weathersby (Perris)
Oregon
Gene Burnett (Ashland OR) www.geneburnett.com
Jeff Herda (Oregon) http://www.northwesttaichichuan.org/
Washington
Kevin Harms (Spokane) http://northwesttaichichuan.org
Daniel Brasher (Spokane)
http://www.northwesttaichichuan.org/
Bernie Elmendorf (Spokane) http://www.northwesttaichichuan.org/
Donna El-Din (Spokane) http://www.northwesttaichichuan.org/
Carl Dalzell (Spokane) http://www.northwesttaichichuan.org/
Bruce Brown (Seattle) www.wuji.com
Joel Hartshorne (Seattle)
Chris Matthews (Seattle)
Cedar Acosta (Seattle)
Canada
Judy & Barry Freeman (Creston, B.C. Canada)
We appologize for any students who may have been omitted. Only current teachers are listed. If you are officially certified to teach this system please contact us and you will added to the list. The original Official CTCCA list is found at www.dotaichi.com.
All Official students of Tchoung Ta-tchen can be found in his book, The Annotated Theoretical and Practical Tai Chi Chuan, published in 1995. If there are any doubts as to the authenticity of a teacher please check that book.
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Bring Light into Darkness,
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Peace and Light!
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Wash yourselves clean;
Put your evil doings away from my sight.
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