Website
“A Path to Mastery” is a website created to promote the YMAA California Retreat Center program, created and directed by the world renowned author and teacher of Chinese Martial Arts, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. This website also as a Blog where I will describe my learning process and activities related to the program, from the moment of the it’s creation until the end of the 10-year training program.
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Author
My name is Ricardo Tonet and I’m a YMAA Portugal student since May 2003. Currently I’m a YMAA Retreat Center, CA disciple. For you to know me better, I will give some personal information: Date of Birth: February 17, 1984. Place of Birth: Luanda, Angola. Residence: Sobreda, Almada, Portugal. Job: Martial Arts Apprentice. Martial Arts Styles: Shaolin White Crane and Long Fist, Yang Style Taijiquan. Academic Degree: High School
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Dr. Yang
Dr. Yang has been involved in Chinese Kung Fu since 1961. As a child, Jwing-Ming Yang learned patience and endurance throughout nine years of his youth in wartime Taiwan, during which his family of nine often went without food for days. Dr. Yang spent his youth studying the traditional arts, and managed to work his way through an education in physics and mechanical engineering, earning a Ph.D from Purdue University. He then worked as an engineer for Texas Instruments. Seeing the misconceptions of the traditional Chinese arts and culture in America, he was compelled to retire from his engineering career and dedicate his life to preserving the arts. Since 1982, he has systematically developed an international organization of 55 schools in 18 countries, with thousands of students worldwide. Simultaneously, he formed a publishing company to research and publish books and instructional videos which have since become the standard by which all other materials on the subject are measured. In short, the CA Retreat Center project is the culmination of Dr. Yang’s steadfast efforts over the past 35 years, which will ensure his legacy will continue for generations to come.
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YMAA International
Yang’s Martial Arts Association was established in Boston, MA in 1982. With the intent of preserving traditional Chinese Kung Fu and Qigong , Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming began training students in the rigors of Shaolin Long Fist and White Crane Gongfu as well as Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. Dr. Yang also undertook his life-long dream of teaching and researching the Chinese arts and introducing them to the West through many books, videos and DVDs.
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YMAA Publication Center
YMAA Publication Center was founded on January 1, 1984 with the goal of producing superior books and instructional videotapes on Qigong and Chinese martial arts. YMAA Publication Center is a pioneer in the cultural exchange between the East and West. While the West has successfully developed the material sciences, the East is celebrated for its levels of spiritual cultivation. During this ongoing period of exchange, the building of bridges is critical for the successful integration of the achievements of both societies.
