YMAA Instructors

(Updated: August 24, 2010)

This is the official list of active YMAA Shaolin/Taijiquan Masters, YMAA Shaolin/Taijiquan Instructors, YMAA Shaolin/Taijiquan Assistant Instructors and YMAA Shaolin/Taijiquan Coach Instructors existing in the world today. There are no exceptions. Active YMAA masters and instructors have an active YMAA membership, are regularly involved in YMAA seminars, classes, and activities, and are endorsed to teach under the YMAA name. YMAA reserves the right to revoke any YMAA member's "active" status at any time if deemed necessary. If you believe that there is an error in this list, please contact us ASAP.

SHAOLIN GONG-FU

YMAA Shaolin Assistant Instructors have passed all tests up to and including the 6th ranking level.
YMAA Shaolin Instructors have passed all tests up to and including the 10th ranking level.
YMAA Shaolin Masters have passed all tests up to and including the 15th ranking level, in addition to having taught for a minimum of 10 years.

Name	Location	Title
1. Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming		Grandmaster
2. Jeffery Bolt	Houston, TX, USA	Instructor
3. George Dominguez	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
4. Robert Was	Krakow, Poland	Instructor
5. Pedro Rodrigues	Amadora, Portugal	Instructor
6. Victor Casqueiro	Amadora, Portugal	Instructor
7. Nicholas C. Yang	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
8. Michael Vasicek	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
9. Corlius Birkill	Pretoria, South Africa	Instructor
10. Alex Kiesel	Andover, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
11. Arménio Silva	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
12. Bartlomiej Grad	Krakow, Poland	Assist. Instructor
13. Christopher Fazzio	Andover, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
14. Celso Barja	Amadora,Portugal	Assist. Instructor
15. Hugo Dias	Amadora, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
16. James O'Leary	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
17. James Yang	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
18. Joaquim Barros	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
19. José Santos	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
20. Maciej Ciesielski	Gdynia, Poland	Assist. Instructor
21. Makula Zsolt	Budapest, Hungary	Assist. Instructor
22. Miguel Palma	Amadora, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
23. Rafal Szulkowski	Sopot/Gdansk, Poland	Assist. Instructor
24. Ramel Rones	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
25. Simon Pang	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
26. Tai D. Ngo	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
27. Mariusz Targos	Wroclaw, Poland	Assist. Instructor
28. Tony Chee	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
29. Victor Marques	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
30. Zbigniew Panasewicz	Krakow, Poland	Assist. Instructor
31. Aiden Lottering	Pretoria, South Africa	Assist. Instructor
32. George Mentis	Pretoria, South Africa	Assist. Instructor
33. Alessandro Iori	Rome, Italy	Assist. Instructor
34. Paolo Quintili	Rome, Italy	Assist. Instructor
35. Ben Warner	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor

TAIJIQUAN

YMAA Taijiquan Assistant Instructors have passed all tests up to and including the 3rd ranking level.
YMAA Taijiquan Instructors have passed all tests up to and including the 5th ranking level.
YMAA Taijiquan Masters have passed all tests up to and including the 10th ranking level in addition to having taught for a minimum of 10 years.

Name	Location	Title
1. Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming		Grandmaster
2. Jeffery Bolt	Houston, TX, USA	Instructor
3. Jeffrey Pratt	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
4. Jeffrey Rosen	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
5. James O'Leary	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
6. Pedro Rodrigues	Amadora, Portugal	Instructor
7. Victor Casqueiro	Amadora, Portugal	Instructor
8. Bartlomiej Grad	Krakow, Poland	Instructor
9. Robert Was	Krakow, Poland	Instructor
10. Mark Klein	Boston, MA, USA	Instructor
11. Victor Marques	Paris, France	Instructor
12. Alex Kiesel	Andover, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
13. Alessandro Iori	Rome, Italy	Assist. Instructor
14. Arménio Silva	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
15. Bill Buckley	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
16. Brian Muccio	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
17. Carol Shearer-Best	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
18. Charles Yotte	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
19. Chris Hartgrove	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
20. Corlius Birkill	Pretoria, South Africa	Assist. Instructor
21. Krzysztof Flejmer	Stockholm, Sweeden	Assist. Instructor
22. Dennis Willmont	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
23. Florence Leonard	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
24. Gerard Ashe	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
25. Harold Dupuis	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
26. James Noble	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
27. Jean Louis Laneres	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
28. Jean Louis Toe	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
29. Joaquim Barros	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
30. Joseph Best Jr.	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
31. Julien Petitfour	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
32. Maciej Ciesielski	Gdynia, Poland	Assist. Instructor
33. Mariusz Sroczynski	Warszawa, Poland	Assist. Instructor
34. Mariusz Targos	Wroclaw, Poland	Assist. Instructor
35. Ludovico Romeo	Napoli, Italy	Assist. Instructor
36. Mark Falco	Andover, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
37. Nicole Laneres	Paris, France	Assist. Instructor
38. Paola Migliore	Italy	Assist. Instructor
39. Paul Blake III	Andover, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
40. Paul Mahoney	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
41. Pedro Graca	Amadora, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
42. Ramel Rones	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor
43. Ricardo Guerreiro	Almada, Portugal	Assist. Instructor
44. Vincenzo Russo	Italy	Assist. Instructor
45. Zbigniew Panasewicz	Krakow, Poland	Assist. Instructor
46. Paolo Quintili	Rome, Italy	Assist. Instructor
47. Alessandra Fogliano	Napoli, Italy	Assist. Instructor
48. Olivier Pardo	London, United Kingdom	Assist. Instructor
49. Martin Evans	Chesire, United Kingdom	Assist. Instructor
50. Wlodzimierz Hrymniak	Warsaw, Poland	Assist. Instructor
51. Erik Elsemans	Leuven, Belgium	Assist. Instructor
52. Rafal Szulkowski	Sopot/Gdansk, Poland	Assist. Instructor
53. Nicholas C. Yang	Boston, MA, USA	Assist. Instructor

COACH INSTRUCTORS

YMAA Coach Instructors are ranked in the listed styles according to the number of stripes they have earned. Each stripe is equal to one rank.
YMAA Coach Instructors have not yet earned Assistant Instructor qualification for the listed styles (6th rank in Shaolin, 3rd rank in Taijiquan). Please check the lists above to see whether instructors have already earned Instructor or Assistant Instructor qualification in other styles.
YMAA Coach Instructors are recognized by YMAA for teaching purposes.

Name	Location	Style(s)
1. Erik Elsemans	Leuven, Belgium	Shaolin (4th Rank)
2. Lewis Paleias	New York, NY, USA	Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
3. Milan Vigil	Memphis, TN, USA	Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
4. Paul Moran	Dublin, Ireland	Shaolin (5th Rank)
5. Richard Levesque	Quebec, Canada	Shaolin (2nd Rank), Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
6. David W. Grantham	New Jersey, USA	Shaolin (3rd Rank), Taijiquan
7. Scott Tarbell	Amesbury, MA, USA	Shaolin (4th Rank), Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
8. Angel Alpuche	Amesbury, MA, USA	Shaolin (1st Rank)
9. Christian Alpuche	Amesbury, MA, USA	Shaolin (2nd Rank)
10. Ian Dellea	Amesbury, MA, USA	Shaolin, Taijiquan
11. Paul McTeague	Amesbury, MA, USA	Shaolin, Taijiquan
12. Angela Laughingheart	Milwaukee, WI USA	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
13. Leslie Takao	Wolfeboro, NH, USA	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
14. Henry Lai	Raleigh, NC, USA	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
15. Thomas Bowman	Tulsa, OK, USA	Taijiquan
16. Ludovic Delaloye	Valais, Switzerland	Taijiquan
17. Francisco Paco Romero	Málaga, Spain	Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
18. Ricardo Carvalhosa	Almada, Portugal	Shaolin (4th Rank), Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
19. Miguel Larguinho	Almada, Portugal	Shaolin (3rd Rank), Taijiquan (1st Rank)
20. Marek Czuprynski	Wrocław, Poland	Shaolin (4th Rank)
21. Mariusz Klatka	Katowice, Poland	Shaolin (4th Rank)
22. Antonio Ciccarelli	Ferrara, Italy	Shaolin, Taijiquan
23. Michele Renna	Bari, Italy	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
24. Giuseppe (Pino) Creanza	Bari, Italy	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
25. Enrico Tomei	Bari, Italy	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
26. Shermin Rezaei-Dorji	Tehran, Iran	Taijiquan
27. Gabriella Kovács	Budapest, Hungary	Taijiquan (3rd Rank)
28. Alberto Rodriguez	Dijon, France	Shaolin (2nd Rank), Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
29. Daniel Chadud	Santiago, Chile	Taijiquan
30. Mario Schwarz	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Taijiquan
31. Damian Fox	Clonmel, Ireland	Shaolin (5th Rank), Taijiquan (1st Rank)
32. Michael McCann	Liverpool, United Kingdom	Taijiquan
33. Kathy Yang	London, United Kingdom	Shaolin (5th Rank), Taijiquan (1st Rank)
34. Julian Cloete	Auckland, New Zealand	Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
35. Mariusz Kwaśniewski	Bełchatów, Poland	Shaolin (4th Rank), Taijiquan (1st Rank)
36. Przemyslaw Milczarek	Gorzów Wlkp., Poland	Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
37. Arkadiusz Gawroński	Białystok, Poland	Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
38. Radosław Małek	Olsztyn, Poland	Shaolin (4th Rank), Taijiquan (2nd Rank)
39. Marek Sykała	Lublin, Poland	Taijiquan (1st Rank)
40. Edoardo De Sanctis	Rome, Italy	Shaolin (2nd Rank)
41. Olivier Pardo	London, United Kingdom	Shaolin (4th Rank)

INDEPENDENT MASTERS

Independent YMAA Masters are now training independently of YMAA.

SHAOLIN	TAIJIQUAN
N/A	Roger Whidden Ramel Rones

INDEPENDENT ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS AND INDEPENDENT INSTRUCTORS

Independent YMAA Assistant Instructors and Independent YMAA Instructors are now training independently of YMAA.

SHAOLIN	TAIJIQUAN
Adam Dzieciatko Adam Wypart Jaroslaw Koza John Gilbert Jones José Martins Karol Lubecki Kazimierz Szyrowski Krzysztof Marcinek Marek Sadowski Mark Seidel Mike Orlandella Narcyz Latecki Pawel Antonowicz Piotr Czerepuk Rafal Kulbalka Ravi Dixit Tomir Kaczmarek	Adam Wypart Barbara Wypart Carla Feiteira Efrain Telias Gutierrez Jaroslaw Koza John Redmond Kazimierz Szyrowski Kovesdi Andras Lewis Paleias Marek Sadowski Mark Rits Pascal Plée Phil Goldman Piotr Ziemba Sarkozi Ildiko