Welcome to the home page of the Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association Pennsylvania Branch. We are traditional Chinese martial arts enthusiasts. We are practicing YCGF and conduct YCGF classes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania now. We hope we can share the benefits of this interesting, traditional and valuable material with you.

We offer group lessons, private lessons and seminars. We teach Taiji Quan (T'ai-chi Ch'uan), Bagua Zhang (Pakua Chang), Xingyi Quan (Hsing-I Ch'uan), Tongbei Quan, Changquan and Qigong (Chi Kung). We teach forms, push hands, applications, weapons and health training methods.

Our group's Taiji class currently meets  at 3436 Babcock Blvd, North Hills (on the second floor of the North Hills Art Center). Need direction? Click here. Our classes are from 10:00 - 12:00 on Sunday mornings. You are welcome to visit to see what we do and ask questions. Please feel free to contact Yun Zhang at (724) 940-1818 or [email protected] if you would like more information about our classes.

For more information about YCGF, what we practice and teach, and our classes in other area, please visit the home page of the Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association North American Headquarters. 

Great Master Wang Peisheng - 
Yin Cheng is the founder of YCGF.

My name is Zhang Yun. Actually 
Zhang is my family name.

I like martial arts so much and 
practiced more than 25 years.

Hello, my name is Zhang Yun. Actually, Zhang is my family name, so in American style speech, you can call me Yun Zhang. I was born in Beijing, China and lived there until 1989 when I moved to Reno, Nevada. After teaching martial arts in Reno for five years, I moved to Princeton, New Jersey where I continued to conduct classes in martial arts. Currently, I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I have a new group of students. My Reno and Princeton students continue to meet and practice on a regular basis. All of these groups are affiliated with the Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association, of which I am President of the North American Headquarters as well as the head instructor.

Since childhood, I have liked martial arts very much, and I enjoy being part of a martial arts family and community. I am always interested in expanding my circle of martial arts friends and practitioners and in promoting the benefits of the Yin Cheng Gong Fa training system.

The martial arts have a long history in China. Through succeeding generations, practitioners have developed martial arts skills to a high level but the question of how best to pass along these valuable skills in a fast-paced society, such as that of the United States and other highly industrialized countries, is a difficult one indeed. In my opinion, the primary requirement for an effective training system is efficiency. With such a system skills can be developed even with the rigorous time constraints that typify modern-day life. Of course, the system must also include knowledge that is authentic and well taught.

From my personal experience, I believe that Yin Cheng Gong Fa (YCGF) is such a training system, based on traditional martial arts principles and ideally suited to contemporary conditions. Developed by Great Master Wang Peisheng of Beijing, YCGF incorporates many useful techniques. These techniques and the classic principles from which they derive were passed down from several well-known masters to Master Wang. During more than seventy years of study, practice, teaching, and research, Master Wang acquired the highest level of skill in the use of martial arts techniques and precepts and systematically summarized this traditional knowledge. He organized it into a complete and efficient training system and has passed it on to his many disciples and students.

I began my study of martial arts as a teenager. I joined YCGF and studied Taiji, Bagua, Xingyi, Tongbei,Tantui, Changquan, Chinese wrestling, and qigong with my Grandmaster Wang Peisheng and my Master Luo Shuhuan. After 25 years of practice and teaching martial arts and studying the history and traditional culture of China, I feel that martial arts training, like that offered by YCGF, can yield many benefits. It not only provides a method of self-defense but also promotes good health and the development of character. Additional benefits include fun and good fellowship, along with others waiting to be discovered by each practitioner. Join us. I hope that through YCGF, martial arts will become your good friend and bring its benefits to your whole life.

Quality Links:

Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association North American Headquarters

Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association Nevada Branch

Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association Oregon Branch 

Internal Martial Arts (Modern Journal Coverage Traditional Internal Martial Arts)