An introduction to Master Zhang Zhenling, 14th generation successor to Liang Yi Quan.

　　Mr. Zhang Zhenling was born in 1937, in China’s Shancheng County (Henan province). His parents died when he was a child, and he was adopted by his uncle. He was forced to quit school at the age of 13, and lived a life of vagrancy for many years.
　　In 1957 he and his uncle moved to Shenduan village, and lived with a Kung Fu master by the name of Duan Qingong’s. One night Master Duan was teaching his daughter Kung Fu, and Zhang accidentally walked in on them practicing. Zhang instantly fell on his knees in front of Duan Qingong and asked to become his disciple. Master Duan then spent several months testing Zhang’s honesty, intelligence and sense of diligence, before finally giving his approval to Zhang. Master Duan, however, asked three more things of Zhang before he could be accepted as a disciple. Firstly, he must take a formal oath of discipleship to Master Duan (as all disciples must do); secondly, he must marry master Duan’s daughter; thirdly, Zhang and Master Duan’s daughter may not leave the village of Shenduan, or pass on information about the pressure-point style, until after Master Duan had passed away. Zhang agreed to each of these requests.
　　After Zhang had married Master Duan’s daughter, he was required by the Chinese government to take part in ‘collective joint labor’. During that long period of time, he worked during the day and practiced pressure point Kung Fu in the evening. When too tired to train, Zhang studied traditional Chinese medicine, including materials such as “Chinese medicine Meridian study”, the “Yellow Emperor”, the “Compendium of Material Medicine”, and “Body venation”. He also spent 15 years studying Liang Yi and Hunyuan traditional therapies.
　　Zhang was officially recognized as the successor to Liang Yi Quan until 1972, when his master passed away, leaving Zhang as the only surviving master of this secretive Kung Fu style. After becoming recognized as the master of Liang Yi Quan, Master Zhang was approached by China’s ‘Wushu Discovery Organization’, who convinced him to compile the compendium ‘The Secrets of Liang Yi Quan’, which has since been kept in a safe-house dedicated to recording information on Chinese martial arts. In recent years, the Liang Yi pressure point system has continued to develop, and this style has even appeared on the famous Chinese TV show ‘Wulinfeng’ (broadcast in Henan province).
　　Though Master Zhang has five children (each of which, including his daughter, has a limited working knowledge of pressure points), there is as yet no official successor to the Liang Yi pressure point system.

A brief introduction to coach Sun Hongchao 

　　Liang Yi Quan coach Sun Hongchao, one of the fifteenth generation disciples (though not the successor) to the Liang Yi pressure point system, was born in an ordinary village in 1972. He has studied various styles of wushu since his early youth, including many years spent training in the Shaolin temple. He has studied traditional Shaolin boxing and Changbinhe (an internal style of Kung Fu) under Master Shiyanpu (buddhist name Henchao); as well as acupuncture, Chan Buddhism, the theory of bodily meridians and the yin and yang of metaphysics under the monk Suyun. Coach Sun became the coach of the Songshan Shaolin Wushu Basion in 1994, and achieved second place in the Shaolin Boxing Exchange competition in 2002. After participating in an international symposium on Shaolin Kung Fu in 2003, coach Sun took charge as the head coach of the Shaolin Monks’ Kung Fu Academy in 2004.
　　However, after witnessing a performance of Liang Yi boxing in July 2006, coach Sun decided to dedicate his time and effort to mastering this particular form of Kung Fu. Despite the rigorous nature of Liang Yi training, coach Sun became an official disciple of Liang Yi Quan on July 2nd, 2005. He has a rich background in martial arts research and practice, and has experience in coaching people from a wide variety of backgrounds. His approach to teaching Liang Yi Quan rests on the principle that no two students are the same, and that training should be tailored to each specific student.