Shi Mei Lin : Wu Tai Chi - Chinese Martial Arts - Acupuncture

<body> <p>` </p> <p>This web site uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <p> </p> <table height="95" width="96%" bgColor="#ffffff" background="sml_bg.jpg" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/about.htm"><font face="Arial">About Shi Mei Lin</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/masters.htm"><font face="Arial">About her teachers</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/wutaichi.htm"><font face="Arial">Wu Style Tai Chi</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/shaolin.htm"><font face="Arial">Shaolin Kung Fu</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/wushu.htm"><font face="Arial">Wushu</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/seminar.htm"><font face="Arial">Seminars/Workshops</font></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="96%" bgColor="#ffffff" background="sml_bg.jpg" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/acupuncture.htm"><font face="Arial">Acupuncture</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/herbal.htm"><font face="Arial">Chinese Medicine</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/classes.htm"><font face="Arial">Classes</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/contact.htm"><font face="Arial">Contact Details</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/jmail/form.asp"><font face="Arial">Contact Form</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><a href="http://www.shimeilin-wutaichi.org.nz/main.htm"><font face="Arial">Home Page</font></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong><small><small><font face="Arial"> </p> <p>About  Master Shi Mei Lin</font></small></small></strong> </p> <p><strong><small><small><font face="Arial">Shi Mei Lin (Wu Yan Tang) has spent her entire life studying and teaching Martial Arts, beginning her own training aged 7. She went on to graduate from the Beijing Sports and Cultural University in Chinese Martial Arts. </font></small></small></strong></p> <p><strong><small><small><font face="Arial">A Wushu (a member of the Shanghai Wushu Team) and Tai Chi champion in the 1970s and 1980's, she toured with Chinese Wushu teams internationally, including the United States in 1974 when she was part of an elite Chinese Martial Arts Delegation. In later years she was chief instructor for the Shanghai Wushu Team and she also coached the Taiwanese Wushu Team in 1994</font></small></small></strong></p> <p><strong><small><small><font face="Arial">Shi Mei Lin has been  an international Tai Chi champion and five times Chinese National Tai Chi Champion. In 1986 she won the Chinese National Tai Chi sword competition as well as becoming the Wu Style Tai Chi Champion.</font></small></small></strong></p> <p align="center"><img height="357" alt="meilinsword.jpg (38376 bytes)" src="meilinsword.jpg" width="253"></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial"><small><small>Master Shi Mei Lin Performs Tai Chi Sword in Wellington New Zealand 2004</small></small></font></p> <p align="left"><small><small><strong><font face="Arial">Master Shi Mei Lin  is the adopted daughter of Wu Tai Chi Grandmasters Ma Yue Liang and Wu Ying Hua. </font></strong></small></small></p> <p align="left"><small><small><strong><font face="Arial">Both Grandmaster Ma and Grandmaster Wu taught Shi Mei Lin Wu Style Tai Chi. Grandmaster Wu passed on her full knowledge of the Wu style Tai Chi Chuan and Tai Chi weapons forms to Master Shi Mei Lin (Wu Yan Tang). Grand Master Ma passed on his full knowledge of the style and taught Master Shi Mei Lin the original Wu Style Fast Form, first demonstrated in public by Master Shi Mei Lin herself to the Chinese Martial Arts Society in 1983. </font></strong></small></small></p> <p align="left"><small><small><strong><font face="Arial">Shi Mei Lin often represented Wu Style Tai Chi with Grand Master Ma and Grand Master Wu at martial arts demonstrations, competitions and confrences.  She also co-authored the book "Wu Stye Tai Chi Fast Form" with Grand Master Ma and Grand Master Wu. </font></strong></small></small></p> <p align="left"><small><small><strong><font face="Arial">Grand Master Wu and Grand Master Ma both felt a special affinity with Mei Lin. They both felt she was destined to continue the Wu Ying Hua and Ma Yue Liang family Wu Style Tai Chi heritage and gave her the name Wu Yan Tang.</font></strong></small></small></p> <p align="left"><small><small><strong><font face="Arial">On a visit to New Zealand in 1990 Grand Master Wu expressed the wish that Shi Mei Lin continue to teach and pass on Wu Style Tai Chi. Grand Master Wu's eldest son Ma Hai Long now heads the Wu Chien Chuan Tai Chi Association in Shanghai and her third son Ma Jiang Bao teaches Wu Tai Chi in Europe.</font></strong></small></small></p> <p><small><small><strong><font face="Arial">Master Shi Mei Lin moved to New Zealand in 1988. Both Grand Master Ma and Grand Master Wu visited her here in 1990. They gave Tai Chi demonstrations, featured on news broadcasts with Shi Mei Lin and also in a short documentary. </p> <p>Since making her home in New Zealand Master Shi Mei Lin has taught many appreciative students both Shaolin Kung Fu and Wu Style Tai Chi in New Zealand and all over the world. She also practises Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.</font></strong></small></small></p> <p align="center"> </p> </body>