Club founder
My name is Mark Blimling and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm half swedish but don't feel it, actually I'm from America. I lived in Destin, Florida and San Diego, California. It was in the later that I started training Taiji. I came here in 1992 and started teaching Chen Taiji. My taiji and qigong résumé has lots of different teachers, and most of them have studied under Master Feng (see about Master Feng) and I have trained with his forms of Chen Taiji, the 24,48,73).

Résumé
I started learning Taiji in southern California. I learned the Cheng Man Ching yang short form from Chris Luth. I remember many glad nights at Lajolla cove learning to move slow and let go. I used to help Chris before i received orders to Japan. In Japan i started learning Chen form from a japanese chiropractor. It was the first long form ( Chen has two long forms) which consisted of many kicks and strikes.

When I came back to San Diego, I couldn't find anybody that did the long form. However, in the Taoist Center they had a teacher from San Francisco, George Xu. George taught a simplified Chen style from Shanghai. He also taught several other internal martial arts. Shortly after George invited a master from Beijing, Zhang Xia Xin to teach Chen style. Master Zhang impressed me so much that I studied with him as much as possible. He taught the Feng Zhi Qiang 48 form, it was a lighter, shortend long form. I studied that for several years before I met Master Feng in Switzerland and learned his short form and another part of Hun Yuan Qigong.

During this time I had the chance to interview Master Feng on Chan Ssu Gong, one of the most important parts of Chen Taiji. Chan Ssu Gong is one of the most important keys to Taiji. I don't understand why it was stopped in the other types of forms(yang, wu etc.). It teachs the body to move like taiji, it opens the joints and trains the body for martial arts training.