Club Students Performing 2003

CLUB FOUNDER (Malisa Ng):
Certified Chen Village 20th Generation Teacher (by Zhu Tian Cai)
Direct Disciple Master Zhu Tian Cai (Chen Village China) - formally accepted March 2004.

CLUB ASSOCIATIONS:
Executive member Chin Woo Athletic Association (New Zealand)
Co-founding Organiser World Tai Chi & Qigong Day (Auckland Committee)
Member New Zealand National Tai Chi Chuan Association
Member Chin Woo Athletic Association (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Member Chenshi Taichicise (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Malisa Ng was born in Malaysia (1950s) and grew up on the West coast of the Malay Peninsula. In her late teenage years she moved to Kuala Lumpur and took up Taekwando - eventually winning Malaysian National titles. (She loved to spar with the boys and laughs that they were very scared of her fists).

Master Yap 2003

In the early 1980s the "new" Chen style TaiChi teaching came to Kuala Lumpur in the person of Master Zhu Tiancai - one of the "Four Tigers" from Chen Village, China. It was actually in nearby Singapore that he set up his Club/travelling base but two Chinese Wushu Masters from Kuala Lumpur regularly sat at his feet - who themselves soon began teaching Chen style in Kuala Lumpur (Masters Yap and Wong).

Master Wong 2003

Around this time Malisa decided it was time to let go of her beloved Taekwando. By good fortune she happened to seek TaiChi training under these two Wushu Masters mentioned above. Being a hard working student and "go-getter" it wasn't long before she was entering competions all over the place. In time her diligence perseverence and natural talent paid off - attaining significant ranking at international Tai Chi competitions/conventions in both Malaysia (1997) and China (1996, 2002).

In 1999 Malisa married a New Zealander and settled in Auckland. She promptly founded her tai chi Club "Chen Style TaiChi-cise Centre" and began teaching evening classes at the local community centres. The club has grown significantly since that time.

LINEAGE:

"Tea Ceremony" of Discipleship with Master Zhu Tian Cai

Malisa's Chen style lineage at first came from her two Malaysian teachers: Masters Wong Sow Hong (Taijicise) and Yap Hon Fei (Chin Woo) who are in turn 20th Generation disciples of Master Zhu Tian Cai of Chen Village.

However in early 2004 Malisa, who has been known to Master Zhu since her early days training in Kuala Lumpur, was invited by him during a visiting Club workshop to become his direct disciple.

You may understand that this unusual invitation was also somewhat embarrassing because it would rank her alongside her own long-time Teachers as an official 20th Generation Chen style descendent.. After a few international phone calls generous permission was obtained from her former teacher - whom we discovered already knew!

Malisa accepted, and so became an official 20th generation Teacher recognised by Chen Village in the line of Grandmaster Zhu TianCai. She is one of five women teachers to have received this honour from Master Zhu in his world-wide travels.

Club at World TaiChi Day 2003

CLUB ACTIVITIES:
Knowledge of Chen style is spreading (not just in New Zealand) and TaiChi "newbies" are becoming more savvy and discerning of the different styles available.

The Club has come a long way since Malisa's lonely and unrewarding teaching of night classes seven years ago. Malisa and her senior students now run a variety of Chen style tai chi classes from Grey Lynn in the North to Papakura in the South. The classes attract a wide range of enthusiastic participants including European and Chinese Kiwis, teenagers and senior citizens, Polynesian and Sri Lankan ethnic community groups for a range of purposes: health, exercise, martial art skill.

Receiving instruction from Master Zhu

The Club is regularly sought after for assistance with demonstrations, talks, short courses, formal presentations, promotional days, cultural events and health exercise programmes by many different organisations (Govt health sector, ethnic or community groups, sporting institutions and coprorates). Our subsidised lessons target a wide audience (Chinese or European) including less advantaged groups and senior citizens.

This Club Website, dedicated as an International Chen style Resource, went online mid 2000. The offer of free video clips (well before YouTube) proved very successful with 70 free Chen TaiChi video clips being downloaded by 45 interested visitors each day.

The Club also operates an Internet based Tai Chi Discussion Forum with Chen style technical advice generously offered by International Chen Writer, Master Tu-Ky Lam of Wellington.

Presently Malisa devotes herself full-time to teaching public classes (both martial and health), training teachers, rigorous daily practise and promotion of the Chen family tai chi art-form in New Zealand and Australia.