Master Longfei Yang started his martial arts training at the age of 6 in the Hohhot (Inner-Mongolia). He studied Yang style Tai Chi and “pushing hands” under his grandfather, Yang Jian Jiu, the fourth-generation inheritor of Yang-style Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese doctor and general of the Taiwanese army who had a strict and intensive daily regimen of training.

He then started focusing on hard external Wu Shu styles including the Shaolin “Iron Palm”, “Iron Fist” and ”Iron Body”. He also studied extensively Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do, “the Drunken Fighter”.

After years of intensive training, Master Longfei Yang’s knowledge in martial arts matured and he began developing himself internally in order to understand his body and develop internal power, raising his skills to a higher level. He trained in the internal Seven Star Praying Mantis under Grandmaster Li Shu Sen, the 5th generation inheritor of Shan Xi Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu. In addition, he studied under Master Dong Xi Shen, 12th Generation Successor of Chen Style Tai Ji Quan.

Master Longfei Yang is the first certified instructor of Shan Xi Seven Star Praying Mantis to establish a school of martial arts outside of mainland China. He is also the founder of Inner Flow Tai Chi which focuses on the health and wellness preservation.

He has made many appearances on South African and US television, as well as in Black Belt and several other magazines. He has appeared in and produced various instructional videos, directed martial arts action sequences in U.S. and Canadian films, and has written several books including [A Gateway to Chinese Martial Arts], [Shan Xi Seven Star Praying Mantis Continuous Fist]. He has served as a judge in international martial arts competitions since 1999.

In 2001, Master Longfei Yang won the “International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition”. In 2009, he won the runner-up title at the NTD International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition. In South Africa, he was known for his full-contact fighting and Bodyguard training classes. He’s even personally been a bodyguard for a Michael Jackson concert. Master Longfei Yang served as Chief Instructor for the 1998 award winning National Kung Fu Team in South Africa.

Since 2005, Master Yang Long Fei has been teaching in New York City. In 2008, he founded the Xin Wu Men to further his goal of promoting Chinese culture and philosophy internationally. Today Xin Wu Men has students across the globe and has also won many
international competitions.

Presently, he is actively spreading the culture of traditional Chinese martial arts in a multitude of ways. Besides his regular martial arts classes, he created “InnerFlow Tai Chi” (Previously named “Zen Tai Chi”), a personalized Tai Chi technique highly beneficial for professionals in various business sectors, including finance and technology, who often work long hours at desks. He has been invited by Macy’s to demonstrate Chinese martial arts during their Asian Culture Month and has been hired by EmblemHealth to provide weekly classes for their employees, families and clients, proving very popular.

He has been teaching InnerFlow Tai Chi classes at fourteen health and Senior centers in New York’s Korean community for over 12 years, resulting in improved health for thousands of elderly people.

He has also been involved in healthy lifestyle workshops for cancer patients using traditional Chinese healing exercises at Gilda’s Club NYC. He also regularly visits and teachers throughout Central and South America. Private and group classes are also available.

A feature length documentary is currently in progress starring Master Longfei Yang, focusing on his lifelong journey of martial arts training and his arduous experiences teaching martial arts overseas. Life has taken him across Asia, South Africa, South America, and North America. His travels to a hidden temple deep in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia to train kung fu students for an international Martial Arts Competition further showcases the charm of multiculturalism.