Links

• Yin Cheng Gong Fa. The website of Zhang Yun, disciple of the late Grandmaster Wang Peisheng. Zhang Yun and his students are an excellent source for instruction on the Chinese Internal Martial Arts.

• Academic Training Traditions. The website of Paul Cote, who teaches YCGF arts in western Maryland. Paul is a long time student of Robert Smith and Zhang Yun and an excellent source for instruction in the internal arts.

• Sugawara Budo. The website of Sugawara Tetsutaka and Xing Yan Ling, featuring Aikido, Taiji, and Katori Shinto-ryu. The Washington DC area study group is led by France Hoang (Katori DC) and supervised by Eric Zmarzly.

• Edgework. The website of Ellis Amdur. Ellis teaches Araki-ryu Torite-kogusoku and Toda-ha Buko-ryu and has students in several geographic locations. People considering learning classical Japanese martial arts would do well to seek them out.

• The Micro Dojo. David Dettloff and Troy Gehrett are friends in Minneapolis and St. Paul who focus on combative applications of internal martial arts and integration of ideas from bagua, xingyi, and taiji with aspects of jujutsu and aikido.

• The Yushinkan. The Yushinkan is a Daito-ryu Takumakai shibu (branch) in NYC which teaches a traditional form of aiki-jujutsu as passed down by students of Takuma Hisa, who trained under Takeda Sokaku and Ueshiba Morihei in Daito-ryu. It is a small and dedicated group worth investigating as a source of training in Daito-ryu if you are in the tri-state area.