Yang Jun (Tai Chi Chuan)

杨军 Yang Jun
Master Yang Jun performing Bend the Bow and Shoot the Tiger (弯弓射虎).
Born	1968 (age 48–49) Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
Style	Yang-style taijiquan
Website	International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association

Yang Jun was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China in 1968 into the famous Yang family of martial artists. A son of Yang Dao Fang and a grandson of Yang Zhenduo, he is a direct descendant of Yang Cheng Fu and of Yang Lu Chan, the creator of Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan. Yang Jun is a sixth-generation descendant of the Yang Family of t'ai chi ch'uan, and is the fifth lineage-holder of the style.

Master Yang Jun spent his childhood and formative years living with his grandparents. Growing up in a martial arts family, he saw and heard his grandfather training his students. So, it is in this nurturing environment that he became deeply immersed in his family’s taijiquan heritage. Yang Jun began studying and training in the soft style martial art of t'ai chi ch'uan at age 5 with his grandfather Yang Zhenduo, who raised him.

Proficient in Hand Form, Sword, Saber, Push Hands, and other forms of the art of the Yang-style of t'ai chi ch'uan, Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo has prepared him to continue and advance the martial arts tradition of the Yang family.

Since 1986 he has travelled to teach with his grandfather, first inside China and then internationally (to the USA) in 1990. After many years and dozens of seminars around the world, Yang Jun has now become an accomplished martial artist and a teacher in his own right. His skill is unquestioned. His forms seamlessly combine softness with hardness, finesse with spirit, and restraint with expression.

In 1989 he graduated with a degree in physical education from Shanxi University, China.