Heh. Here’s a hint Prairie: The gentlemen you referred to has actually posted on this thread. 
Ah Ha! I had a sneaky feeling about that
Bill Lewitt
All I can say about him is that he is a thoroughly disreputable sort. I saw him in a park once doing somthing that resembled Ba Gua.
Last I heard he had been run out of Texas, accused of being a Carpetbagger… Last I heard he was teaching TKD or somthing up North
Those carpetbaggers always are disreputable sorts.
As funny as that is…
The truth is actually this:
I left San Antonio last year and I have been teaching Near Range Combatives, Weapon Retention, Defensive Knife, and Tactical First Aid in New Hampshire for an obscure European weapons consortium named Sig Sauer. My skill is still poor, rivaled only by my horrible visage and my inability with a pen.
I am still in close contact with my Sifu in San Antonio and classes are still being held. I actually plan on flying him up in the Spring to help me teach an advanced Tactical Medicine program and berate me for how horrible my Changes are. Sifu Etheredge, in addition to being an excellent Bagua player also taught the US Military SOMED (Special Operations Medicine) program at Ft Sam Houston for about 6 years, graduating literally thousands of ParaRescue, Force Recon, SeAL, Ranger, and Green Beret medics.
Our BaGua is a combination of that taught by RW Smith in Bethesda, MD, and that of Peter Cheng who also practiced Chung Chao Tung based Ba Gua, but from a line a generation or 2 back from Smith. (Basically, we do what the Hung Brothers did… No matter how you slice it.) We teach 32 Linear sets, and 32 Circular sets, along with many ancillary push hands and Tienn Gunn-like exerscises.
Sifu Ethredge also has made contact with many of the masters in and around Texas. In 2000 a group of us made a pilgramage to meet Colonel Y.W. Chang (Ret) in New Orleans to see and learn his Chen Pan Ling style of Taiji. Col Chang was a consumate host, teacher, and gentleman. At 6’1 and 300 lbs, literally double his size, I couldn’t lay a hand on him and I have tape of him dumping me on my unskilled posterior repeatedly and with ease. He was in his (undefined) 90’s when he passed away earlier this year.
I think the problem with San Antonio is that people expect a little more flash than what they get from John. We meet in the park (and recently at the Kempo school in Alamo Heights), we have no uniforms or tropheys, and we don’t break boards. We sweat…practice changes… No one is there to hurt or intimidate anyone else… We just practice… ALOT. When you’re ready for more John will give it to you… No questions, no begging. If you slack, you won’t get very far. He is very low key and very understated, but very good and very dedicated.
Just remember… If you come to Saturday class, bring Taco money… We usually go to Maria’s on Walzem for chillequille tacos after class!!
Now Reppin’ the 617…
Bill
Sorry for digging up an ancient thread, but Gary Stier is now teaching Sun Style Bagua in the Stone Oak area of San Antonio, one evening per week. Contact him at HillCountryHealer(AT)hotmail(DOT)com, or call me at 210.391.1082.
Actually there is an Authentic Baguazhang-Yinstyle
Yes, this is a response to an old post but there is an authentic private teaching of Yin Style Baguazhang in Austin, Texas.
You can contact us at www.BaguaKungfu.com
Email and lets get started with the prelude enlightenment.
3deeMonk
[QUOTE=GLW;219828]Sorry…you won’t find GOOD Bagua or Xingyi in San Antonio.
Closest you can do is to travel to Houston…
Chinese styles are EXTREMELY limited in San Antonio. You CAN find a bit of Taijiquan and Wing Chun…but not much more.[/QUOTE]
We do have Hung Gar in San Antonio
Bagua or Xingyi just might need to network with right people.
You should come out for Tai Chi Push Hands Sunday
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...38662649497058
We just had a new guy so up from Maryland he was doing Xingyi, and my Kung Fu Bro does Xingyi he came from California.
San Antonio is limited but with a nice under ground network
How many hand shacks are you away from a Xingyi teacher that is the question
Maybe 2 come out Tai Chi push hands networking always good.
have a good weekend and if anyone comes out see yall sunday