Yang Jun

Yang Jun is a Wushu master who was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China in 1968 into the famous Yang family of martial artists. A son of Yang Daofang (adopted by Yang Zhenduo) and a grandson of Yang Zhenduo, he is a direct descendant of Yang Chengfu and of Yang Luchan, the creator of Yang-style tai chi. Yang Jun is a sixth-generation descendant of the Yang Family of tai chi, and is the fifth lineage-holder of the style. Biography Master Yang Jun spent his childhood and formative years living with his grandparents. Growing up in a martial arts family, he saw and heard his grandfather training his students. So, it is in this nurturing environment that he became deeply immersed in his family’s tai chi heritage. Yang Jun began studying and training in the soft style martial art of tai chi at age 5 with his grandfather Yang Zhenduo, who raised him. Proficient in Hand Form, Sword, Saber, Push Hands, and other forms of the art of the Yang-style of tai chi, Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo has prepared him to continue and advance the martial arts tradition of the Yang family. Since 1986 he has travelled to teach with his grandfather, first inside China and then internationally (to the USA) in 1990. After many years and dozens of seminars around the world, Yang Jun has now become an accomplished martial artist and a teacher in his own right. His forms seamlessly combine softness with hardness, finesse with spirit, and restraint with expression.