Cultivating Tai Chi in Ohio - USA
From its Birthplace,
Chen Tai Chi Village - China
Our Teachers
Our mission is to make people happier, healthier and be fearless in life. Together we practice Taichi as taught by our head master, Master Chen Bing. It starts by calming our mind, our body and releasing our tension. Then, we will train body and breathing awareness, self alignment and movement effectiveness. We will also be learning authentic Taichi forms including varies empty hand forms, sword form (for intermediate to advance students), silk reeling (energy circulation training), push hands (partner training), and fajing (explosive power applications). Basically, we help each other to attain the ultimate harmony for our mind and body. We practice to manage the ever changing state of the opposite forces in life commonly known in Chinese as 'Yin and Yang'; soft and hard, slow and fast, push and pull, and so on.
Master Chen Bing
Founder/Head Master of Chen Bing Taiji Academy Headquarter in Chenjiagou, Henan, China.
We have been very fortunate to have the presence of Master Chen Bing to teach (seminars, workshops and private lessons) directly in Columbus, Ohio USA since 2004 almost annually. Master Chen Bing is a direct lineage of Chen Wangting, the creator of Chen Taijiquan (Taichi). Master Chen Bing is also an undefeated Taichi champion, 12th generation lineage holder of Chen Tai Chi, and the headmaster of Chen Bing Taiji Academy located in Chenjiagou, Henan Province, China - The Birth Place of Taijiquan. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen-style_t'ai_chi_ch'uan).
He is frequently invited to teach seminar world wide. Please visit www.chenbingtaiji.com for his international seminars.
Andi Sie
Head Teacher
Andi Sie focuses on the daily applications and the long-term health benefits of practicing martial arts. In Taijiquan/Chen Taijiquan (Tai Chi), Andi is a 13th-generation practitioner of the Chen Taiji family and a direct disciple of Master Chen Bing, who is a direct descendant of the Chen Taijiquan founder, Chen Wangting. Andi offers consulting services using Tai Chi principles to empower tech entrepreneurs. And over the past 20 years, Andi has taught students of all ages in diverse settings—from kindergarten to 8th grade at a preparatory school, to college, and to senior citizens in martial arts schools and community centers.
Andi started training in martial arts when he was seven. He is a certified Tai Chi practitioner, a Kukkiwon World Taekwondo Headquarters Certified Black Belt (1999), Vice President of The Ohio State University Kukki Taekwondo Club (1997-1999), a junior instructor at the Shaolin Kungfu Academy in Edmond, Oklahoma (1996-1997), and an assistant instructor at Kelabang Pentjak Silat in Cirebon, West Java (1990-1993). He served as the Columbus Asian Festival Martial Art Committee Chairperson from 2004 to 2013, was a full-time licensed martial arts teacher for Performance Academies from 2015 to 2016, and has been a Tai Chi teacher at Dragon E's Blackbelt Academy since 2016.
Jack Anderson
Teacher
Jack Anderson is a certified Chen Taiji practitioner who has been studying Chen Taiji directly under Master Chen Bing since 2008. Jack has received direct training from Master Chen Bing in the United States as well as in China.
In addition, refer to by his students as Sifu Jack Anderson of the Shaolin Huiguang USA school, Jack has 21 years of Tai Chi training under Master Jef Naayers and other renowned Martial Arts Masters, both in the United States and China. Jack has been teaching Tai Chi for 14 years.
Gisa Rieske
Teacher
Gisa Rieske started training in martial arts 25 years ago and has been teaching martial arts since 1995 in Ostrander, Ohio. She has a black belt in the Kuda family martial arts style of Matsumura Kenpo. In 2005 she started training in the Chinese martial art of Shaolin Kung Fu. She was introduced to Chen Taiji the following year while staying in China and eventually became a certified Chen Taiji practitioner under Master Chen Bing. She has since expanded into other softer styles of martial arts such as Aikijutsu, Aikido and most recently Taijutsu. Her martial arts training has been an amazing journey which has taken her over much of the US, China and Japan training in different martial arts schools with their masters.