Over the years, Master Ge Chunyan and the Bafang Wushu Training Centre (Singapore) have gained from the teachers of great masters and experts. Master Ge's three main teachers below are of special significance.
Sun Zhi jun (孙志君, 1933-)
Sun Zhijun is the 4th generation of Ba Gua Zhang. He has obtained the Chinese National Cultural Heritage Award in 2012 and is officially the National Representative Successor of Ba Gua Zhang.
Master Sun was born in 1933 and grew up in the Cheng village of Hebei province, home town of Cheng Ting-hua, founder of the Cheng style of Ba gua zhang also known as "You Shen Ba Gua Lian Huan Zhang". Master Sun received teachings from three main masters of Ba gua zhang: Liu Ziyang, one of the most developed disciples of Cheng Dianhua, Cheng Yousheng (Cheng Tinghua's nephew and Cheng Dianhua's son) and Cheng Youxin (Cheng Tinghua's second son).
Besides practicing the art of Ba gua zhang, Master Sun also practiced Xing Yi Quan which helped him to develop speed and strength with different martial movements. As a child and a young teenager, Master Sun would spend his days and evenings practicing with his teachers and would continue to practice the art even after everyone had long left. It was very common for Master Sun to come home in the middle of the night after practicing all night. Like his teachers,
Masters Sun soon became top practitioner among his fellow Bagua brothers. Due to his hard work he progressed rapidly in the arts and soon became the favorite students of Cheng Yousheng who taught the most advanced level of Ba gua zhang performed in a low stance. Master Sun continued to practice throughout wars and internal turmoil of the Cultural Revolution all the while studying to become a civil engineer. In 1964, Master Sun started competing in the national games. He won the martial arts championship of the open hand and weapons forms at the Beijing competition. He won the gold in the National Conventional Martial Arts Championship in 1983 as well as gaining the National Outstanding Martial Arts Athlete Award. In 2004, Master Sun won two gold medals for the open hand and saber forms at the World Conventional Martial Arts Festival Championship in Zhengzhou Henan.
In 1982, Master Sun started coaching at the Eastern Martial Art Institute and was evaluated as a National Outstanding Instructor. He has been teaching students and disciples ever since and has spread his knowledge to many worthy disciples. His disciples range from National and International gold medalists and became masters themselves. With over three decades of coaching experience of teaching in China and abroad and over 60 years of practicing the art with a dedication of steel Master Sun has earned the titles of National Treasure and Representative of the Art of Bagua Zhang .
Feng Zhiqiang (冯志强, 1928-2012)
Feng Zhiqiang is 18th generation of Chen style Taijiquan and the founder of Chen Shi Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan.
As a young man in Hebei province, Feng Zhiqiang studied Shaolin from his uncle, Wang Yun Kai. Later, in Beijing, he learned Tong Bei Quan from Grandmaster Han Xiao Feng. (Han Xiao Feng was from Cang Zhou, Hebei province, which is a famous area for several martial arts.) He then studied Xinyi Quan from Grandmaster Hu Yaozhen and Chen Style Taiji from Grandmaster Chen Fake, both of whom taught him qin shou mi shou (closely and secretly).
Grandmaster Feng is recognized as a top student of Chen Fake. Chen Zhaokui, the youngest son of Chen Fake and a recognized Master of the 18th generation of the Chen family, had told Yang Yang that "if you want to learn push hands, you must study with my Taiji brother (Feng Zhiqiang) in Beijing." Master Feng is truly a historic figure in the history of Taiji. He is the originator of Chen Shi Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan, a distinct training system that is mainly the combination of what he learned from Grandmasters Chen Fake and Hu Yaozhen.
Before his training system evolved into a unique style, Master Feng was well known as the creator of the 48 movement form of the Chen style, which distilled the traditional "long form" by omitting replicate movements and incorporated additional movements from pao cui, the second routine of the traditional Chen style. He also created a set of 30 silk reeling exercises that are practiced throughout the world by practitioners of all styles of Taiji, and established the 12 Principles of Taijiquan that were first published in his book "Entering the Door of Chen Style Taijiquan", published by Peoples Sports Publishing House, Beijing, 1992. He is also well known for his set of 10 Hunyuan Qigong exercises.
Grandmaster Feng was named a national treasure by the Chinese government, and is sought world wide for his teachings.
Li Junfeng (李俊峰, 1938-)
Li Junfeng is a qigong master, the founder of Sheng Zhen Qigong, and a world-renowned wushu coach.
He has also starred-in and choreographed several Chinese martial arts films. Li Junfeng was born in Gaocheng, Hebei, China. As a youth, he earned a position on the Hebei professional rifle team. In 1960 he enrolled in Beijing Physical Education University's wushu department and was the captain of the school's wushu team. In 1964 he was featured in the French TV documentary Day in the Life of a Chinese College Student.
After graduation in 1965 he became a wushu coach at Beijing's Shichahai Sports School.From 1974 to 1988 Li Junfeng was a head coach of the Beijing Wushu Team. During this time the team won the national championship in the group category for 12 straight years and his students won 56 individual gold medals. In 1984 his students won 10 of the 16 gold medals at the National Wushu Competition in Shanghai, setting the record for the most number of gold medals won by a coach's students. Li Junfeng also traveled internationally as a national team coach and at the first Asian Wushu Championship in 1987 his team won 13 of 16 gold medals and 3 silver medals
During his career as a wushu coach, Li Junfeng was awarded one Second Medal Certificate and four Third Medal Certificates from the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission. He was also the Deputy Director of the Chinese Wushu Coach Committee , the Commissioner of the China Wushu Association; and Councilor to the China Wushu Society. In 1988 the Philippines Wushu Federation invited Li Junfeng to become the national team's head coach. He held the head coach position until 1991 where he began teaching qigong and taiji full-time. The team's greatest achievement came shortly after this, winning 10 gold medals at the 16th Southeast Asian Games in Manila.
Li Junfeng had practiced qigong and taiji throughout his life. In 1995 the International Sheng Zhen Society was founded to promote Sheng Zhen Qigong to the world. He has taught Shengzhen qigong in over 25 countries spread across 6 continents. Li Junfeng is a Counselor to the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong and an Advisor to the Qigong Science Research Association of China.
