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Active Senior Disciples:
Grandmaster Chang has taught thousands of students
across North America and Europe over the decades, hailing from all
walks of life, including:
- actors and stunt men wanting to gain confidence for their career,
- teachers, students, and office workers who want to improve their
physical fitness
- people who take health and wellness very seriously
- yoga practitioners and instructors
- orientalists who are interested in Asian culture
- new students who drive from across the continent just for a
week of classes
- those with medical ailments that can be at least partially treated
by Chinese martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine and herbology
- business people and students who are over-stressed
We cannot list all the students here. of course, so on this page
we are just listing some of the more active current disciples (long-term
and serious students). As such, the list is prone to change over
time, naturally.
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 Master
Joe Furrer
Joe, the longest continuing student, has been studying
under Grandmaster Chang since 1982, and has achieved
the Master level in 2000. Even though he has attained
a very high level, he chooses not to teach, but prefers to continue
to study for his own personal interest, for his own enjoyment, strength,
and health.
Joe already had his 2nd dan black belt in Taekwondo
in 1981. This was quite rare to have such a high level in those
years, and Joe was one of the very few in Canada. Having learned
as much as his Taekwondo teacher, he spent several months looking
for a higher-level teacher, and then found Grandmaster Chang.
Since then, he has even passed up work and personal opportunities
elsewhere so he could stay in Vancouver to continue studying with
Chang. He is as humble as he is powerful.
 Master
Joel Tibbits
Joel started studying kung fu with Grandmaster Chang
in 1994. He attained the Master
level in 2002, and has recently been studying Qigong
and traditional Chinese medicine with Grandmaster
Chang, and, under Chang’s guidance, has begun teaching kung
fu classes for ESL students in downtown Vancouver since early
2004.
Besides kung fu, his vocational work has been in
the arts, as a music composer and electric guitarist, stuntman
and stunt coordinator (he has achieved a high fall of 4 stories),
movie script writer, and movie director (see his entry in the
Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862562/
). He also taught ESL in Japan for 1 year and continues
to do so at an ESL school in downtown Vancouver. His long term
goal is to learn as much as he can from Grandmaster Chang. He
has already begun leading kung fu demonstrations, including at
Chinatown's night market, and in 2003 began teaching kung fu classes
in downtown Vancouver for ESL students.
 Sihing
Colin Beaton
Colin (on right of picture) has been with Master
Chang steadily since 1994... (in progress)
 Si-hing
Gary Towne
An ESL and computer teacher in downtown Vancouver
and in northern China, Gary, who speaks and writes some Mandarin
Chinese, plus Indonesian and some French, became a disciple of
Grandmaster Chang in 2003, and, since late 2004,
has been occasionally teaching junior level kung fu classes for
English students at the ESL schools where he has worked with the
approval of Grandmaster Chang and under the guidance of his senior,
Master Joel Tibbits. Similarly, with Grandmaster Chang's approval,
starting in 2006, he has been teaching elementary taijichuan,
both in China (to other Canadian English teachers) and in Vancouver.
Like several other disciples, he has been involved with several
of the school's demonstrations, such as Chinatown's night market.
Also, with the help of other disciples, he has taken over responsibility
for updating and maintaining this website.
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