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The Wedding
Coach Pei officiates the wedding celebration for two of his students.
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Patriotism comes from the heart.
USWA Wushu students preparing to perform at NBA Half-time are asked to participate in opening ceremony.
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USWA Contributes to Toys for Tots
Chris Zebrowski and Greg Holden coordinated a collection for Toys for Tots and a Holiday Celebration on December 11, 2021. Thanks to...
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Learning From The Quiet Man
Coach Cui Yahui is Coach Zhang Guifeng's younger brother (teammate) from the Beijing Wushu Team. Over the years, Coach Cui has graciously...
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Back to The Past
We take training and fun time seriously at the US Wushu Academy. This night everyone was told to come dressed in their finest for a...
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NPR Comes Behind the Scenes
Preparing for a National Public Radio (NPR) expose, Shuran Huang photographs and interviews Coach Zhang and Coach Pei over 2 months. It...
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Reunion of Living Legends!
Regardless his Hollywood fame and demanding schedule, Jet Li always finds time for his friends. Here he dropped in to Washington DC...
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Joanna Competes with the Worlds Best Wushu Athletes...
...and after competing against 1,500 competitors from 85 countries, she becomes #5 in the world. Joanna's score was just 0.15 points away...
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1st Gold Medal for the United States!
Not only did our 12 year old Vanessa Loza with a Gold Medal for Broadsword at the Second World Junior Wushu Championship in Bali (2009),...
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Coach Zhang and Coach Pei on CHINANEWS.COM 3/14/2011
Chinese-American couple runs "American Martial Arts Academy" to promote martial arts and foster understanding between the US and China.
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2015 January Coach Pei is on the cover and in an article of Chinese Wushu Magazine!
Coach Pei in January 2025 Chinese Wushu Article
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Discovering Yang Zhenji's Traditional Taiji
In August of 1998 Christopher Pei and his wife Zhang Guifeng, senior instructors at the U.S. Wushu Academy in Falls Church, Virginia, took a group of students to Beijing to study at the Beijing Sports Academy. Some of us studied Wushu and others studied traditional Yang family Taiji with Yang Zhenji and his wife Pei Xiurong. The Taiji group included Charles Peters, Pat Wilson, Richard Carnes, Mark Walters, Carol Breitner, and Mark Waldman.
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