Wang Rengang is fifth-generation Grandmaster of Hao-style Taiji Mei Hua Tanglang Quan under Hao Wei Zhi, and third-generation Grandmaster of Dachengquan under Wang Xuan Jie.  He has studied gongfu for over 50 years and has taught for more than 40.  He moved to the United States in 2000 from Liaoning, China and has been featured in Inside Kung Fu Magazine.  He currently teaches privately in New York City and travels throughout the world to judge tournaments and teach seminars. 

Fu-Tung Cheng’s involvement in the Martial Arts as student and teacher spans five decades.  He is the First Senior Student of Grandmaster Y.C. Chiang and helped him establish Wen Wu School of Martial Arts in 1971.  Fu-Tung taught taiji classes at Wen Wu School from 1973-2003.  He helped Grandmaster Henry Look in founding the Guang Ping Yang T’ai Chi Association and designed the Association’s "Wave” logo.  Fu-Tung has been teaching an ongoing taiji class at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery since 2004 where he continually explores, discovers and develops his innovative approach to taijiquan.

Nick D’Antoni studied Shodokan Karate and Judo from 1966 until 1970. Over the years he explored other physical and mental disciplines, including boxing, yoga, and meditation practices. In 1993, he discovered a “perfect fit” in taijiquan. Nick has had the good fortune to benefit from studying with many outstanding teachers such as Masters Y. C. Chiang and Henry Look, Fu-Tung Cheng, Master William C.C. Chen, JoAnna Schoon, Valarie Prince Gabel, Rick Barrett and Anthony N.J. Ho. He is a Founding Member and Past-President of the GPYTCA, and is the longest serving member of the Board of Directors. In 1999 Nick moved to Walla Walla, WA, where he repairs and restores musical instruments, and where he and Lynn Sharp opened the Walla Walla Wen Wu School of T’ai Chi Ch’uan to continue in the tradition.

Randy Sugawara is a certified Guang Ping Yang Taijiquan instructor under Grandmaster Henry Look and former president of the Yi Chuan Association.  He has a doctorate in Psychology and applies his knowledge in the internal martial arts and psychology to substance abuse relapse prevention.  His counseling techniques include the equine-human relationship where human and horse interact to help deepen emotional awareness releasing traumas and advancing whole mind-body-spirit healings. 

Dug Corpolongo has been studying Taijiquan and Qigong since 1979 and teaching since 1990. He was a Senior Student of the late Grandmaster Henry Look.  Dug was inducted into the Universal Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honors in 2012 and 2022. He was National Head Coach and National Chair of the United States Amateur Athletic Union/Chinese Martial Arts Division for more than 10 years.  He is currently a Head Judge of the Internal Martial Arts Divisions for the United States Kuoshu Federation.  He has trained students who won their divisions in National and International Chinese Martial Arts championships.  His professional background includes faculty positions at the International Institute of Chinese Medicine, the Southwest Acupuncture College, the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics, and the New England Institute of Buddhist Studies.

Shoshanna Katzman began her study of Guang Ping Yang Style Taiji and Northern Shaolin Gongfu in 1974 under the tutelage of Bing Gong in the San Francisco Panhandle, while also attending occasional classes with Grandmaster Kuo Lien Ying. During this period, she studied Beijing Yang Style Taiji, Yiquan and Taiji Ruler with Fong Ha; then went on to learn Wu Style Taiji and Choy Lee Fut Gongfu with Larry Johnson.  She has a master’s degree in the “Scientific Aspects of Physical Education” and is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist. She has taught Guang Ping Taiji at Chabot College (Hayward CA), Five Branches University (Santa Cruz CA), Brookdale College (Lincroft, NJ) and through Red Bank Acupuncture Center which she founded in 1988. Shoshanna is author of “Qigong for Staying Young” (Avery/Penguin, 2003), co-author of “Feeling Light” (Avon/HarperCollins, 1995) and “Center of Power: Life Mastery Through Taiji” which is a comprehensive on-line tutorial centered around the Guang Ping Yang Style Form.

Diane H. Rabinowitz, a UC, Berkeley graduate, entered the gongfu door in 1972 with the Master James Wing Woo of the Chinese Martial Arts Association in Los Angeles.  Her Guang Ping taiji life (and a little Shaolin) began in 1977 with the renowned Master Yun Chung Chiang.  She began teaching in Nashua, NH, and for the next 42 years taught there, and in Cape Cod MA, and Rhode Island. She learned taiji sword with Bow Sim-Mark of Boston. Diane’s specialty is Chinese fan boxing which she learned in Taiwan and also where she learned to speak, read and write Chinese.  Diane has produced 3 DVDs of the forms she taught, published articles in T’ai Chi Magazine, and published her own newsletter, the West East Report.

Michael Rabinowitz is a retired scientist with degrees in physics and geochemistry from MIT and UCLA, and a career in public health.  Formerly on the Harvard University faculty, he served on the EPA Science Advisory Board, mostly in Woods Hole MA as an Investigator at MBL.  He was also a visiting professor at National Taiwan University where he researched tea and oral cancer.  Dr. Rabinowitz studied briefly with James Wing Woo in Los Angeles in 1972 and began taijiquan in 1981 in Nashua. In 2003, Y.C. Chiang certified him as a taiji teacher.  He has been married to Diane Hoxmeier Rabinowitz since 1974. 

Jen Kano has been practicing Guang Ping Yang Taiji Quan for 30 years.  She learned the form from Diane Hoxmeier Rabinowitz and additional instruction that proved to be key influences came from Y.C. Chiang, Marilyn Cooper, Henry Look, Fu Tung Cheng, Dug Corpolongo and Rick Barrett.  Jen was one of the principal organizers of the Cape Cod Guang Ping Yang Taiji Quan Club when it was formed in 1995 and has been teaching taiji through the club ever since.  Jen is also a Transcendental Meditation initiator and Reiki Master.  Health has been a long-term, primary interest of hers.  In addition to taiji, reiki and meditation, she uses self-acupressure, E.F.T., grounding, bio magnetics, food as medicine, and is an avid walker.  She is particularly passionate about foot health and naturopathic foot care.