About Me: Yang's Martial Arts Association (YMAA) is an international martial arts organization and community that embraces traditional training, self-discipline, and martial morality. YMAA was conceptualized, established, and realized by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming. All around the world, YMAA offers classes, seminars, and instruction in Shaolin Long Fist, Shaolin White Crane, Taijiquan, and Qigong. This account was set up to promote events being held in their Boston, MA location.

Experience: Our Grandmaster, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming has over 40 years of martial arts experience and is a world-renowned teacher and author. Dr. Yang has been involved in Chinese Wushu since 1961. Altogether, he spent 13 years learning Shaolin White Crane, Shaolin Long Fist, and Taijiquan under several different masters. He has taught for more than 40 years: 7 years in Taiwan, 5 years at Purdue University, 2 years in Houston, and 26 years in Boston. He has taught seminars all around the world, sharing his knowledge of Chinese martial arts and Qigong. Dr. Yang has traveled to Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Botswana, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, China, Chile, England, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, and Venezuela. He has published over 30 books and 50 videos and DVDs on the martial arts and Qigong. His work has been translated into many foreign languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech, Bulgarian and Russian. Dr. Yang was named by Inside Kung Fu Magazine as one of the people who has "made the greatest impact on martial arts in the past 100 years." In 2003, Black Belt Magazine named Dr. Yang as its 2003 "Kung Fu Artist of the Year." He was also named "Man of the Year" by Inside Kung-Fu in 2007.