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AND STAFF Pat Rice, Director and Instructor Pat Rice has been involved in internal health practices since 1972 and in Chinese martial arts and internal practices since 1975. She has studied extensively in the U.S. and abroad from well-known masters. She also has studied taijiquan, qigong, and other arts in China and in Europe. She has traveled to China ten times since 1985, as her involvement with Chinese arts has expanded. In 1988, she was an athlete member of the U.S. Wushu Team and competed in taijiquan at the International Wushu Invitational Tournament in Hangzhou, China. It was during that event that she was introduced to Master Yang Zhen-duo and arranged to study further with him in Taiyuan, Shanxi. She was the first to invite him and his grandson Yang Jun to the United States in 1990, through her business, A Taste of China. Among tournament awards as an athlete, she placed first in Taijiquan, Women's Division, and first in Push-Hands, Women's Division, in the U.S. National Kung-Fu/Wushu Competitions, Houston, Texas in 1986 and 1987. She was a member of the 1989 U.S. Taijiquan Team and won 3rd place in Push-Hands, Women's Heavyweight Division, at the First Chung-hua Cup International Tai Chi Chuan Tournament, Taiwan. She earned a diploma at the Wushu International Judges Course in Shanghai in 1988 and is certified by the China Wushu Association to judge in international tournaments. She has sponsored, directed, and judged at numerous tournaments at the national and international level, and has taught courses in tournament management and judges training. Between 1988 and 1995, she organized fourteen tournaments that focused solely on taijiquan and other internal styles. “The U.S.A. All-Taijiquan Championships,” held in Winchester, Virginia, became the premier tournament event for internal stylists. She has been an administrative member of several Chinese martial arts organizations, including being a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S.A. Wushu/Kungfu Federation, the Board of Directors of the former U.S. Wushu Federation, and Taijiquan Director of the U.S. Chinese Kuoshu Federation, and she was on the Taijiquan Committee of the Amateur Athletic Union. She served four years (1995-1999) as a member of the Technical Committee of the International Wushu Federation and attended three World Wushu Tournaments (Baltimore, Rome, Hong Kong) as an administrator. She was Director of Programs for the highly acclaimed 2009 International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium on Health, Education, and Cultural Exchange which featured “Traditional Tai Chi Chuan: A View Through the Lens of Science” and included more than fifty scientific papers on the benefits of taijiquan and qigong. She has published several articles on taijiquan, wushu, and self defense. She is Director of “A Taste of China,” and based on the role A Taste of China has played in the development and spread of Chinese martial arts, she was named in 1999 by Inside Kung Fu magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Persons in martial arts in the U.S. in the past 100 years. She was inducted into Inside Kung Fu’s 2001 Hall of Fame for “Outstanding Contribution to Martial Arts.” She has conducted workshops in the U.S. and abroad for more than 30 years. She has taught college credit courses at Shenandoah University and Lord Fairfax Community College in Virginia, and educational courses at Shenandoah University’s College for Lifelong Learning,. She has been Director and Instructor at her own school, the Shenandoah Taijiquan Center/Yang Chang-fu Center in Winchester, Virginia since 1992. She is the Adviser to the International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association. She has written for its journal and has assisted in structuring the ranking procedures for the Association. She has a great enthusiasm for teaching and learning, and is dedicated to sharing the sense of well-being that can be obtained from the practices of taiji and qigong. Taijiquan Teachers Teaching associates for taijiquan programs are trained instructors authorized to conduct classes and present instructional material at the Shenandoah Taijiquan Center, and they also teach at other locations in the Shenandoah Valley area. Contact the Center at 540-662-3973 for information. WUSHU STAFF Brandon Floyd, Wushu Coach Brandon Floyd began training in 1998 under Coach Jose Johnson and Coach Burley Rudacille. He continued with Coaches Scott Hager and Chris McClure at Blue Ridge Wushu, and with Master Nick Gracenin. In 2005 he received his black belt in Northern Style Wushu and in 2009 advanced to second degree. He also has studied southern fist, baji and taijiquan. He has been a coach for the youth Wushu since 2005 and specializes in teaching ages 4-18. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, specialtizing in child and adolescent psychology. Owen Sargent, Wushu Coach Owen Sargent began training in 2002 in Wushu under Burley Rudacille. He continued with Coaches Scott Hager and Chris McClure at Blue Ridge Wushu, and with Master Nick Gracenin. He also has trained in fencing since 2002 with Karl de Azagra and has been teaching fencing since 2004. He received his brown belt in 2005 and was promoted to assistant instructor at Blue Ridge Wushu. In 2009, he was advanced to second degree black belt. He is a student at Shenandoah University. Master Nick Gracenin, Wushu Advisor Master Nick Gracenin’s impressive credentials range through all aspects of Chinese martial arts—athlete, coach, and administrator in national and international wushu organizations. He has extensive classical training in all types of wushu, especially the Wudang internal styles, straight sword, and broadsword. Inside Kung Fu named him in 1999 as one of the 100 people who have “made the greatest impact in martial arts in the past 100 years” and in 2005 “Man Of The Year.” He is the director of the Peng Fei Wushu Association of North America and lives in Washington, DC. He teaches at Shenandoah Wushu on a monthly basis. |
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