Instructor Listing - Assessed and approved by Chen Style Tai Chi Centre

All instructors under this listing are approved by Chen Style Tai Chi Centre for the technique skills and the certificate is issued by Master Liming Yue. The instructors on the listing below are all independent instructors and they do not belong to the Tai Chi Centre (unless specified). The level of technique is required to be reviewed every years by Master Liming Yue at free of charge by turning up serminars or regular classes held by the Centre, otherwise the level of skills assigned may be not accurate. The Centre will also not take any responsibility for their teaching and behaviours apart from proving their Tai Chi skills and teaching standard.

The standard we used for the instructor levels is according to the Wushu Duan Wei system implemented by the Chinese Wushu (Martial Arts) Association in China. Some of instructors listed below have also achieved the Duan Wei grading from China as indicated.

To be a qualified instructor and listed on this directory, please contact the Centre at: liming.yue@taichicentre.com or visit the instructor training program page at: www.taichicentre.com/instructor_training.php

Foundation Level Instructors:

Instructors within this level can teach Tai Chi Foundation exercises includes: Warm Up, Side Step, Single and Double hands Silk Reeling Energy exercises, Breathing exercises (excludes Qigong exercises), Tai Chi Stance and simple form movments.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Alison	Griffin	Wigan	20th June 2005	due to review
02	Gill	Healey	Wigan	20th June 2005	due to review
03	Julie	Barton	Wigan	20th June 2005	due to review
04	Katharine	Kennedy	Wigan	20th June 2005	due to review
05	Linda	Bond	Wigan	20th June 2005	due to review
06	Nicola	O'Brien	Wigan	20th June 2005	due to review
07	Gillian	Timperon	Dorset	16th September 2007

Level One Instructors:

Instructors within this level can teach all Foundation Level exercises and Tai Chi Eleven Form.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	David	Hassall	Devon	10th September 2006	due to review
02	Norberto	Peralta	Scotland	10th September 2006
03	Eric	van-der-Steen	Manchester	10th September 2006	due to review
04	Charlene	Denton	Cambridge	10th September 2006	due to review
05	George	Harris	Manchester	10th September 2006
06	Jane	Placca	Manchester	10th September 2006
07	Brendan	Moran	Manchester	10th September 2006	due to review
08	Peter	Scott	Arandal	10th September 2006
09	Keith	Walrond	Telford	10th September 2006
10	Pete	Baldwin	Norfork	10th September 2006	due to review
11	Howard	Friend	Levenshulme	24th June 2007
12	Sandra	Oxenham	Dorset	24th June 2007	due to review
13	Chris	Gray	Chorley	16th September 2007
14	Paul	Lomas	Glossop	16th September 2007
15	Paulo	Fernandes	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
16	Pedro	Moura	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
17	Rute	Pinto	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
18	Aníbal José Alves	Rodrigues	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
19	Tania	Correia	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
20	Andre	Pinho	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
21	Pierraolo	Ghirotto	Leeds University	15th June 2008
22	Colin	Knightley	Halifax	15th June 2008	conditional

Level Two:

Instructors within this level can teach all Level One exercises and Tai Chi 18 Form, or First 15 movements of 83 Form and Laojia 74 Form with Basic Push Hands.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Peter	Bedford	Worcester	24th April 2006
02	Xingchen	He	Tai Chi Centre	4th January 2005
03	Christine	Tregartha	Accrington	18 August 2007 by China Wushu Association
04	Philip	Lomas	Gloosap	18 August 2007 by China Wushu Association
05	Laura	Healy	Gloosap	18 August 2007 by China Wushu Association
06	Marco	Fasanotti	Italy	18 August 2007 by China Wushu Association
07	John	Collins	Ireland	20 June 2008
08	Matthew	Seal	Devon	24 June 2007
09	Robert	Marks	Nottingham	24 June 2007	due to review
10	Gary	Conroy	Levenshulme	24 June 2007
11	Howard	Ward-Dutton	Runcorn	24 June 2007
12	Chiara	Gilaldino	Biella, Italy	18 August 2007 by China Wushu Association
13	Angela	Santos	Espinho, Portugal	15th July 2007
14	Darlene	Oliveira	Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal	15th July 2007
15	Leigh	Till	Brighton	16th September 2007
16	Phil	Robinson	Preston	16th September 2007
17	Yuhong	Zhang	Sale	16th September 2007
18	Bernard	Phillips	Middleland	15th June 2008
19	Robert	Kanski	Southport	15th June 2008	conditional
20	Janet	Murray	Grindleton	15th June 2008
21	Christine	Thomas	Accrington	15th June 2008
22	Sue	Hindle	Preston	15th June 2008	conditional

Third Level:

Instructors within this level can teach all Level Two exercises and First 30 movements of 83 Form or Laojia 74 form, Push Hands and Sword (or Sabre).

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Nick	Taylor	Devon	15th August 2005 by China Wushu Association
02	Anthony	Rushton	Worcester	10th September 2006
03	Neil	Grimley	Telford	10th September 2006
04	Richard	Northwood	Cheshire	10th September 2006
05	Garry	Seghers	Cannock	18th August 2007 by China Wushu Association
06	Mark	Guggiari	Cheshire	10th September 2006
07	William	Wilkinson	Blackburn	10th September 2006
08	William Pete	Hornby	Stafford	16th September 2007
09	Sergio	Terramoto	Oporto, Portugal	11th November 2007
10	Desmond	Morris	Ireland	15th June 2008	conditional
11	Andrew	Plant	Accrington	15th June 2008	conditional

Forth Level:

Instructors within this level can teach all Third Level exercises and 83 Form or Laojia 74 Form, Push Hands, Sabre, Sword, Long Pole with Martial Arts applications.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Steven	Burton	Accrington	15th August 2005 by China Wushu Association
02	Maria	Jose	Denia, Spain	11th July 2007
03	Mikelo	Signes	Denia, Spain	11th July 2007
04	Pluto	Vlachopoulos	Athens, Greece	18th August 2007 by China Wushu Association

Fifth Level:

Instructors within this level can teach all Level Forth exercises with beter form movements.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Dan	Chisholm	East Grinstead	15th August 2005 by China Wushu Association
02	Aamir	Rafi	Tai Chi Centre	24th June 2007 by Tai Chi Centre (received 4th Duan Wei on 15/08/2005 in China)

Sixth Level:

Instructors within this level can teach all Level fifth exercises with excellent form movements at the level of national championships holder in China major competitions and good understanding about the Tai Chi principles.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Niu Jun	Jian	Paris, France	24th August 2006 by China Wushu Association
02	Juan	Chen	Japan	28th August 2006
03	Pepe	Arlandis	Denia, Spain	11th July 2007

Seventh Level:

Instructors within this level can teach all Level Sixth exercises with beter form movements and understanding about the Tai Chi principles.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Liming	Yue	Tai Chi Centre	24th October 2004 by China Wushu Association
02	Dongwu	Zhang	China	15th June 2007 by China Wushu Association

Eighth Level:

Instructors within this level can teach all Level Sixth exercises with beter form movements and understanding about the Tai Chi principles.

No.	First name	Surname	Area	Date of Assessment	Remark
01	Zhenglei	Chen	China	17th April 2004 by China Wushu Association
02	Xiaowang	Chen	Australia	15th June 2007 by China Wushu Association