Recommendations in Xian and Shanghai?

[vietle87]

Hi

I practice Bajiquan in Seattle, WA. I will be in Shanghai and Seattle this December hopefully (once I get my visa). Does anyone know of any Baji teachers in Xian and Shanghai?

[nicklinjm]

If you are going to Xi'an I would've thought your first stop Baji-wise should be M Li Suiyin (grandstudent of LI Shuwen via Zhang Xiangwu), who in addition to his excellent baji is also v skilled at taiji and (I think) bagua. His student Omar is a long-time RSF member and sure he will chime in.

In Shanghai I know there's a group called Shanghai Neijiquan whose main teacher trained under Baji master Li Junyi (a senior student of Wu Xiufeng), best way to contact them would be through their Wechat channel.

[charlie_cambridge]

Not Baji but I would recommend Patrick Kelly's taiji school in Shanghai if you're going to regularly be there: https://9cloudstaiji.com/
They might be less enthusiastic about people just passing through but for people regularly there, it may be one of only opportunities for new people to train with PK these days (he has hundreds of students with him 20-30+ yrs and is 72 and mainly focusing on those, though he has spent quite a bit of attention for youngsters in Shanghai because that's his latest/main school effort for past 10 years)

[vietle87]

At nicklinjm, I tried reaching out to Omar, but I haven't heard back. I don't know if he's still on rumsoakedfist

[bailewen]

I got an automatic email when you messaged me.

Been buried in work and dealing with a toddler in the house to the point I haven't been doing a lot of kung fu lately. Never really got fully back into after COVID ruined everything....

But I'm still in Xi'an and could easily set up a meet and greet

[edededed]

Oh no, say it isn't so!

But glad that you seem to be doing well (despite post-COVID changes). Work does seem to increase exponentially as age increases for some reason...