Aiping Cheng
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Grandmaster Aiping Cheng a member of the elite Chinese National Wu Shu Team six times (1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1987, 1988). She is a three time all-China National Tai Chi Chuan Champion. She won exceptionally high medals in other WuShu-KungFu and Tai Chi Chuan national competitions.
Grandmaster Cheng was on the Chinese National Wu Shu Teams that was invited to demonstrate Tai Chi Chuan and WuShu-KungFu for the world leaders in 16 countries including a performance for the President of the United States in a famous and historic visit to America in 1974. Grandmaster Cheng was a top coach at one of China's prestigious sports institutes where her student-athletes won Chinese, Asian, and World championships.
Grandmaster Cheng was a committee member of the highly select group of 16 outstanding Tai Chi Chuan masters who established the first National competition standards for Tai Chi Chuan, Tai Chi Sword, and Push Hands.
In 1999, Master Aiping Cheng was rated at a top world-level in Tai Chi Chuan and Wushu by the International Wu Shu Association in Beijing and honored with an award for "Outstanding Achievement" for sharing her skills and expertise with people of other countries.
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[edit] Formal Training
[edit] 1970
Selected for the Zhejiang Province Wu Shu Team, one level below the elite Chinese National Wu Shu Team. (To be chosen for this team one must go through the highest levels of rigorous training and the most intense competition in China. There is only one team from each province).
[edit] 1974 to 1996
Intensive study under world known Traditional Tai Chi Chuan Masters:
- SUN Style - Tien-Ji Lee, Jian-Yun Su
- Wen-Jen ShuYANG Style - Jong-Wen Fu
- Yuan-Long ZhoCHEN Style - Liu-Shung Gu, Xiao-Wang Chen, Zhung-Lei Chen
Master Ai Ping Cheng worked collaboratively with Master Jou Tsung Hwa at the Tai Chi Farm during the Spring of 1997.
[edit] 1981 to 1996
At one of China's top, elite sports institutes, Aiping Cheng was promoted to Head Coach of the Zhejiang Province Wu Shu & Tai Chi Chuan Professional Team. This Province or State Team is one of the most select and highest levels in China.
[edit] 1981 to 1984
Ai Ping Cheng attended the Shanghai Sports College. Intensive study of Sports Medicine History, Sports Physiology, Sports Psychology, Principles of Coaching and Sports Theory. Her college advisors were the well known Wushu masters, Cai Yunlong and Dr. Wong JuRong.
[edit] 1986
Selected as a member of the prestigious committee in Beijing that would, for the first time, establish Chinese National Competition Standards and Rules for Tai Chi Chuan, Tai Chi Sword, and Push Hands. There were only sixteen Tai Chi Chuan Masters selected from all of China.
[edit] 1991 to 1996
Director at Zhejiang TV News Center. Continued as Head Coach of the Zhejiang Province Professional Wu Shu Team. Continued studies and practice of Tai Chi Chuan with traditional Masters.
[edit] 1997
Emigrated to the United States. Granted a U.S. Visa as "Person of Extraordinary Ability."
[edit] 1999
Established the Ai Ping Tai Chi & Wu Shu Center on the First World Tai Chi Day, April 10, 1999. The Center is a professional Tai Chi Chuan and Wu Shu-KungFu studio dedicated to the in-depth study of these traditional cultural arts and modern sports. The mission of Master Ai Ping Cheng's work is to help Americans learn these ancient Chinese ways of improving their health, well-being, and quality of life as well as to enhance the world-wide interest in these precious, living cultural treasures.
[edit] Achievementt As Head Coach Zhejiang Province Team
1995Aiping Cheng's student, Lu Dan, won two 1st Place Gold Medals in "Long Fist" at World Championships in 1995 and 1997. 1987 Aiping Cheng's student, Chui-Ying Fong, won the 1st Place Gold Medal in the "Spear Fighting" event at the First Asian Wu Shu Competition. As the Head Coach of the Zheijiang Province Professional Wu Shu Team, Aiping Cheng's student-athletes have won the following Wu Shu and Tai Chi Chuan awards at the highest level competitions in China:
| Event | Gold Medals | Silver Medals |
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| Self Selected Wu Shu Events | 10 | 9 |
| Wu Shu Traditional Events | 9 | 5 |
| Wu Shu Partner Events | 6 | 3 |
| Group Events | 2 | 2 |
| Tai Chi Chuan | 5 | 6 |
Aiping Cheng was not able to compete in World Championships after winning the Chinese National Competitions because World Championship competitions did not exist before 1993. The Chinese National Competitions were the highest level competitions in the world during her competition years. The Chinese National Wu Shu Team World Tours to demonstrate the ancient cultural arts and modern sport of Wu Shu were considered the most prestigious world honor for these outstanding athletes.
