Lee Kwan Shan (18??-1948)
His real name was Yuk Tong, meaning "Jade Mountain".

He learned the praying Mantis System from Ching Yeung, the Abbot of the Wah Lum Temple in Shantung Province in China.
As he originator of the Wah Lum System, he took the young Pui Chan as his last disciple of the system.

Pui Chan: Introduced the Wah Lum System to the United States and is currently the only master in the U.S. teaching this system. He is the 6th generation successor of the Northern Praying Mantis System and 33rd generation successor of the Shaolin Temple, China. In addition to being a disciple of Grandmaster Lee Kwan Shan, he has studied under several masters of the style. Having given many exciting demonstrations throughout the United States, appearing on television, in newspapers and in martial arts magazines, his skills and knowledge are highly respected by martial artists and masters worldwide.

He studied with Lee Kwan Shan and then continued to learn and train with his older Kung Fu brother, Chan Wan Ching making him the sixth generation master of Wah Lum. In 1980, Master Chan built a Kung Fu Temple in Orlando, Florida. Calling it the Wah Lum Temple.

Willy Lin (Lin Shih Kuang) (1938- ) was one of his teacher, Wang Jyue Jen's, top students. He introduced the Tian Shan Pai style to the United States He began martial arts in 1957 and studied with Wang Jyue Jen until 1968.

In 1968 he moved to for Sao Paulo, Brazil. where he taught for the Chinese Association Center. In 1970 he arrived in the U.S. where he first visited Chen Man Qing (both in the same lineage) in New York then moved to Silver Spring, Maryland. After a brief time association with the Tracy Karate organization there, he opened his own school. Continuing with his promotion of the martial arts he sponsored touring companies for the performance of Tian Shan Pai including local and national demos and TV appearances. He was also featured in educational films for the U S Department of the Navy.

Wang Jyue Jen (1910-1990) The founder of Tien Shan Pai.
The style was established in the 1940's. He based Tien Shan Pai's curriculum largely on the Northern Shaolin system of training. As such, the movements are generally far-reaching and flowing with sudden bursts of Fa Jing (Coiled Energy.)

His father, a martial artists, was a doctor of herbal medicine. Wang’s father was quite successful and rather wealthy. As a child, Wang was trained in many martial arts. Over the years, many teachers were hired to instruct him at home, privately. At this time we are not sure of all of those teachers who came to teach hime. we do know that he established himself as a highly skilled practioner and a master teacher.

Cheng Man Ching (1901-1975) He was a Traditional chinese doctor, Maths and Physics Teacher, Poet, Chinese Calligraphy painter. He learned Tai Chi from the late Tai Chi Master Yang Cheng Fu. He mastered Tai Chi and its function and application which became known as the Five Excellences. Professor Cheng popularized Tai Chi in the West in New York in the 1960's and 70's.He has written many books on Tai Chi and the I-ching and remains one of the Greatest Tai Chi Masters of the 20th century.

We are very fortunate to have Master Cheng Man Ching in our school's lineage through the late Al Gardner. Mr Gardner was one of the founders of the National Martial Arts Association and was a valued advisor and friend to our school..

In 1974 he came to the U.S. to study at Purdue University. While at Purdue, he taught Chinese martial arts, including credited courses in Taijiquan. He was awarded his PhD. in Mechanical Engineering in May of 1978.

Dr. Yang moved to Boston in 1982. In January of 1984 he gave up engineering career to devote more time to research, writing and teaching. Dr. Yang has published 35 books, 4 audio cassette tapes, and more than 60 video tapes and DVD's on the martial arts and Qigong. Many have been translated into languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian, Hungarian, and Persian.