Dr. Paul Yan 

We are honored to have in our facility, Dr.Paul Yan, Chinese medicine practitioner.  You may find a copy of his brochure , by clicking on his picture.

• He has been involved in the research and practice of Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture since 1972.

• He holds a diploma from the Shanghai Medical School in China

• Holds  Doctorate degree from Nova College International in Canada.

• He is certified as a holistic Health Care Practitioner by the Washington Institute of Natural Medicine.

• A registered Naturopath in Washington D.C., Dr.Yan is a member of the American Naturopathic and Holistic Association.

Ali Reza

With over 34 years of experience, he joins us to offer our Persian friends, specialized training in Spoken Farsi.

Our colleague trains hard and demands the same out of his students...

Training Margret

Margret’s training began with a rubber band fight. My other friend was there, and we were chatting as we kept escalating it. Now we started “fencing “ with broomsticks…Last famous words, “ok, take a swing, with everything ya got…take aim at my head, tho”…

How funny those things will eventually come full circle…

It’s been almost 15 yrs since.  As time went on, I decided to teach her the martial arts. I always felt that teaching JKD was too complex to do so in a casual settling where the training would be infrequent and far in between sessions. I decided to start with the stuff I could remember where we last left off. Not to say that karate is easy, no. it took me many years to get through it, but it is one of those things I could set bookmarks in my head to continue or refer back to a particular lesson. We tried karate for a long time.

Along the way through JKD she has found Escrima. We do pick up sparring usually at the end of the day, after our last P/T client leaves.

Full contact Escrima, with no protective gear is brutal. Just ask the Dog brothers…

She found her own way back to JKD.  Most people are not willing to travel that long, just to find another path to take. She calls it, "the 15 year punch"....

Marie

Began learning martial arts at the age of 12 with a neighbor who taught out of their garage. Her formal training began with Professor Hyman, in NYC.  There, she learned Karate and later she re joined the same dojo, twice as an adult. She began with Shotokan karate, then began studying the other styles, IE. Ryu and TKD. Her father had been an amateur boxer back in the 1950's as his own sports preference; began exposing her to the discipline that comes with learning and training.

 In the late 70's as Marie joined the service, She met Sifu Brown; who had just received his instructorship in Jeet Kune Do, from Guru Inosanto. Marie & Sifu Brown both worked together in the late night shift as MP supervisors, and used the idle time to teach/learn during 2 tours of duty overseas.

In 1981, Marie was introduced to  Master Drayton, a 5th generation instructor that had been assigned to her, as a last resort by the doctor who was treating her for severe chronic pain from a parachute accident. She learned Qi Gong, Baguazhan and  Tai-Chi Chuan (Wu family style).

In 1983 Marie was certified by The International Kung Fu Federation and the International Martial Arts Federation for her grasp of the healing forms of Tai Chi.

  In 1985, she obtained a 3rd degree in Chinese Goju, with the Black Dragon association group while serving in Fort Benning, Ga.

Since the early 90's, Marie continued taking short courses and developing her form, Quan Ji, while patrolling with the NYPD for 5 years.

She Obtained her certification as a Kickboxing instructor while pursuing her career as a Physical Fitness Instructor, for which she has been in private practice for the past decade.