Taiji or Baqua Schools in Sacramento Area?

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I am moving to Sacramento California soon and I am looking for a Taiji, or Baqua school. Does anyone have any recomendations?

Thank you,

Scott

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Taiji/Pa Kua schools

I know of an amazing teacher in San Francisco who teaches taiji/pa kua. He is the real deal and I’ll try and get his information for you. I think he has 35+ years in taiji (unsure exactly). Ill look around, he occasionally visits Alaska and is a good friend/former teacher of one of the three good taiji teachers here.

Although if you ever visit alaska, the three teachers worth getting ahold of in order of available and likelyness to take on students are: Warren Pretlow, Kurt Wong & Kevin Holthaus.

Freedom is what you do with what is done to you. - Sartres

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Thank you, Nexus.

Sincerely,

Scott

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If you don’t mind driving, Shyrfu John Price teaches Hsing-I Chuan near Redding. Here’s the URL to his web site..

http://www.jps.net/jlprice/xingyi001.htm

If you are interested in learning how to fight with an Internal martial art then Shyrfu Price is your man.
p.s. He is also my instructor and I am quite happy with all I’ve learned from him.

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Thank you Mojo

Thank you Mojo. I have friends and family in Redding. Perhaps I can arrange periodic private lessons.

Sincerely, Scott

Scott

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Tai Chi..

This is not in conjunction with my previous post, just something I found. I would inquire as much as possible before signing up but here is the information:

Tai-Chi Ch’uan
PO Box 60945
Sacramento, CA 95860-0945
Phone: (916)557-0601

Freedom is what you do with what is done to you. - Sartres

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I found it!!!

Scott, this is the guy you want to get ahold of if you want to learn high quality taiji or pa kua:

The location is: San Francisco, CA
From the school:
The INTERNAL LINEAGE TRADITION
Name: SIFU Quintsai Rong Zhou

INTERNAL LINEAGE TRADITION HOTLINE: 1-800-401-0300

He is absolutely amazing and anyone who has seen his skill first hand will almost certainly agree. If you get a chance to study with him you are extremely fortunate.

Good Luck to you,

  • Nexus

Freedom is what you do with what is done to you. - Sartres

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Not sacramento, but maybe not too far

These folks are closer to Berkeley, but are not outrageously far:

Joe Crandall is pretty good at BaGua and Xingyi, and teaches out of Pinole:
http://www.jps.net/~stma/contents.htm

Hong ZhongNan is very good at Wu Taiji, and lives in Walnut Creek. You can reach him via Alvin Chew taijiren@yahoo.com

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