Wu Tang PCA - Classical Cheng Style Ba Gua Zhang

Frank Allen

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          Frank Allen has studied and practiced the Internal Energy Arts since 1973. He was an early student of Master B. P. Chan from whom he learned the Internal Martial Arts of Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan and Tai Ji Quan as well as the healing art of Qi Gong. Frank began to study with Master B. K. Frantzis in 1976 and over the next two and a half decades studied Frantzis� Internal Arts, including Ba Gua Zhang, Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan Nei Gong, and Taoist Meditation. Frank Allen was the first person certified to teach the Ba Gua of B.K. Frantzis.   Since 1984 Allen has been the disciple of Western Boxing Master, Verne �The Bulldog� Williams.  Currently Frank travels annually to Beijing where he studies Northern Wu Style Tai Ji Quan with Grandmaster Li Bing Ci, and Cheng style Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan with Grandmaster Liu Jing Ru and became a formal disciple in 2006. 

   In 1979 Allen founded The Wu Tang Physical Culture Association of New York City which has a brother branch in Frankfurt Germany. Over the years the Wu Tang P.C.A. has produced many tournament champions and a core of competent instructors.  With 35 years of martial arts practice and professional martial arts instructor, Frank Allen is a truly respected martial art Master in the world.

   With Tina Chunna Zhang, Frank Allen is the co-author of �Classical Northern Wu Style Tai Ji Quan: The Fighting Art of the Manchurian Palace Guard� and "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang: The Art and Legends of Eight Trigram Palm".  He has authored or co-authored over thirty articles for the major martial arts and Taoist related periodicals in the U.S.A.  He and the Wu Tang P.C.A. video production crew have produced twelve instructional videos covering the subjects of Ba Gua Zhang, Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, Taoist Philosophy, Meditation, and The Fighting for Health System. (click HERE to purchase).

     Allen teaches workshops around the U.S.A. and in Europe as well as his regular classes in New York City. He has been the Internal Martial Arts Instructor of Healing Tao U.S.A. University Summer Retreats since 1999 and in 2005 started a joint Healing Tao U.S.A. � Wu Tang P.C.A. Ba Gua Zhang Instructor Certification Program.

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                                    Frank and Li Bing Ci                                        Frank and Liu Jing Ru

              

Liu Jing Ru teachs a Ba Gua Zhang class in Beijing, Dec. 2007.

 

Kong Cheng, Han Yanming, Frank, Tina, Older Brother, Han Yangwu.

Liu Jing Ru -  Beijing, Jan. 2007