16 February 2009

Congratulations to Mark Klein, a regular YMAA Boston Taijiquan and Pushing Hands instructor for over 5 years, for passing the test to earn his 5th Taijiquan rank. The test was conducted directly by Dr. Yang during his short visit to Boston. The 5th rank is officially titled "YMAA Taijiquan Instructor", and it is a significant accomplishment for any practitioner to achieve. Typically it takes between 5 to 10 years to reach such a deep level of Taijiquan training.

Mark has been training martial arts for over 20 years and has long been a strong advocate of understanding, training, and developing martial applications, root, and foundation in the internal arts. He is also well-versed in Taiji Ball Qigong training.

Aside from being a Taijiquan instructor, he is a Principal Research Scientist currently working at MIT.