Hong Chao Zhang
Shanxi HsingI
3720 N. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60615
312-883-1016
Richard Baron
Hsing I, Chen Tai Chi, Splashing Hands (McNeal Student)
Chiago and Depaul U.
847-702-7581
warriorof heaven1@aol.com (?)
Group and private lessons
Chinese Gung Fu Club of Dekalb
Tai Praying Mantis and 2 Northen Shaolin Systems
http://www.sifuberry.addr.com/
Enjoy and I hope these work if anybody is looking.
what about the shaolin/ interplanetary karate school?
What about the Golden Mountain?
What about Wai Lun Choi?
what is
“Green Dragon Tai Mantis kung fu”? and where did Arthur Berry learn it, who from, etc?
Arthur berry is a fraud.
mantis cave tai chi mantis and “tai mantis” geaneology chart:
http://www.geocities.com/mantiscave/frame.htm
Lanard Martin, Berry’s stated teacher of this system “known in Hong Kong and Vietnam” doesn’t appear in it anywhere.
He doesn’t know much shaolin either. Yet somehow he calls himself grandmaster and claims to teach it.
Although I am not familiar with Sifu Art Berry, Grandmaster Chin appears to have been the real deal. His senior students still operate his school here in Milwaukee. I visited a couple of times while searching for a Kung Fu school. They seemed to be a really nice group of people. Whenever I meet people in the martial arts community here in Wisconsin, they always speak of him with high regard.
When did you stop by? Thanks for the complimant of our school.
Just posting some stuff I found on the net incase somebody did not know they existed.
I hear great stuff about Choi from you guys all the time. You guys know about Choi. These might of been new.
Hong Chao Zhang is a great guy, I learned some longfist from him a while back. His accupressure work is also top notch. His stuff is from the mainland universities and from traditional teachers, and he’s old enough that the wushu he knows are essentially traditional sets, before they started to move away from applications. He’s a total perfectionist.
He also happens to be about the nicest guy I’ve ever trained under. He’s got a book out on the wild goose chi kung set, everyone raved about his tai chi, but I never studied it with him. His senior externals guy is out here now, we spar all the time.
Guo Jianhua runs a school in Chicago.
Hi, Shaolin Kung Fu
I visited you guys’ school about 4 years ago. I sat in and watched a beginners class and on another occasion I watched an advanced class. It was all good stuff and everyone was really friendly and made sure they came and introduced themselves. However, at the time, they were not enrolling new students and the schedule for the classes was not going to work for me at that time. So I ended up at another school. Since then, I have met quite a few people who knew of you guys’ Sigung and he is always spoken of with much respect to this day. I’m sure he would be proud to know that his students are still carrying on his legacy.
Originally posted by KC Elbows
Hong Chao Zhang is a great guy… the nicest guy I’ve ever trained under.
I just want to second this. If anyone is sort of toying with the idea of starting martial arts, Mr. Zhang is a great place to start. I trained with him for about 2 years and got into the best shape of my life. I really enjoyed going to class.
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Re: IL & Chicago peeps/some schools
Originally posted by Black Jack
Chinese Gung Fu Club of Dekalb
I heard this school is not good.
IronFist
crumble or KC
Do either of You guys know where Zhang Hong Chao is from originally or anything about his background? I have a phone number but it’s over 5 years old. Any contact info?
Yeah, let me look it up. He’s from Hunan, if I recall right, studied at the hunan university, has an encyclopedic knowledge of forms, traded wushu for an obscure traditional sun style tai chi set, probably got more forms that way, studied chi kung under the grandmaster of the wild goose chi kung set, the one that died recently.
I’ll see what I can find.
shaolin kung fu, which school do you train at?
And where did you snag that avatar? 
Re: crumble or KC
Originally posted by count
Do either of You guys know where Zhang Hong Chao is from originally or anything about his background? I have a phone number but it’s over 5 years old. Any contact info?
Contact info:
Chinese Gong-Fu Institute (773) 728-8682
4614 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
http://www.smartpages.com/home/chinesegongfuinstitute2
I don’t know much about his background. I think he would categorize his teaching as wushu (yeah, in the normally perjorative sense), but he knows the appliclations, etc. That’s why he’s a good first school to go to if you are considering CMA. It will build a great foundation for anything you want to do.
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