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Overview


Flying Tortoise Martial Arts

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Overview


Flying Tortoise Martial Arts

Welcome to Oregon’s Academy of

Kung Fu and Capoeira

New Student Promotion: All new students receive5 classes Tier 1 classes (fundamentals and capoeira) FREE! This packages expires 30 days from first attendance. Book on our schedule to access this option.

  • Summer Break: June 9-15

  • ZOOM TAIJI SPECIAL: $35 per month to attend 3 zoom Taiji Classes per month! Visit our schedule to book a class.

 
Uncle Liu messing around with his ShuaiJiao banner. Back in the old days his family would take a banner like this to street fairs to advertise their school. #kungfu #gongfu #shuaijiao #martialarts #wutang #flyingtortoise #portland #beijing
You can check out our studio’s fundamentals and capoeira classes for free: 5 classes over 30 days. Come find out what authentic Kung Fu feels like.
You can check out our studio’s fundamentals and capoeira classes for free: 5 classes over 30 days. Come find out what authentic Kung Fu feels like.
We just completed our 2nd monthly sparring club! The next one is listed on our schedule page. Www.flyingtortoise.org/schedule These are free for members and $10 for fundamentals students.
We just completed our 2nd monthly sparring club! The next one is listed on our schedule page. Www.flyingtortoise.org/schedule These are free for members and $10 for fundamentals students.
My last visit with Grand Master ZhangKai in 2018. Zhang Shiye passed during the pandemic in 2020. He was the 8th Generation Banner Holder of SanHuangPaoChiQuan and teacher to my master WangQi. So many of the old guard have passed these last few years
My last visit with Grand Master ZhangKai in 2018. Zhang Shiye passed during the pandemic in 2020. He was the 8th Generation Banner Holder of SanHuangPaoChiQuan and teacher to my master WangQi. So many of the old guard have passed these last few years. Now my teachers are the “old men” and my students are the novices. The cycle continues. #kungfu #wushu #wutang #martialarts #sanhuangpaochuiquan #sanhuangpaochui #paochui #flyingtortoise #portlandoregon
Master Jason Brick teaches a practical self defense class with Master Joey using flashlights and carabiners. It was a fun group aged 10-50. #selfdefense #selfdefensepdx
Master Jason Brick teaches a practical self defense class with Master Joey using flashlights and carabiners. It was a fun group aged 10-50. #selfdefense #selfdefensepdx
I like push hands, and so does Guan Shifu. Among other things today we drilled some of the applications common to the Wang branch of Cheng Bagua. #bagua #pakua #baguazhang #pushhands #martialarts #tiantan #flyingtortoise
I have missed this guy! There is no Bagua class like a Zhang Shifu Bagua class. Every movement is like jazz.
I have missed this guy! There is no Bagua class like a Zhang Shifu Bagua class. Every movement is like jazz.
Hauling my 10 foot spear and da dao home from the temple. It's good to be back in Beijing.
Hauling my 10 foot spear and da dao home from the temple. It's good to be back in Beijing.
From Li Xingren, daughter of Li Ziming. This photo is very precious. It was taken in 1983, 41 years old. In 1983, Peking University was the first university in China to set up a Wushu Association, which invited four old martial artists of different
From Li Xingren, daughter of Li Ziming. This photo is very precious. It was taken in 1983, 41 years old. In 1983, Peking University was the first university in China to set up a Wushu Association, which invited four old martial artists of different types to teach traditional martial arts to Peking University. The four old men are Mr. Wu Tunan, Mr. Li Ziming, Mr. Ma Changtang, Mr. Zhou Zunfo, when the four old men are over eighty years old, but hale and hearty, majestic. Several coaches standing in the back row are in their prime of life, heroic bearing, they are Wang Tong, Di Guoyong, Qin Qingfeng, Yang Jiacang, Zhou Zhihua. I like this photo very much, especially the sense of the times! This is the first time that martial arts has been introduced into campus after the reform and opening up. It is amazing that 41 years have passed, and Yang Shiming, my nephew, has inherited the legacy of our ancestors and still sticks to teaching Baguazhang to Peking University students for more than 20 years. [ThumbsUp][ThumbsUp][Rose][Rose][Fight][Fight] #liziming #bagua #baguazhangkungfu #baguazhang #liangstylebaguazhang #wushu #wutang #flyingtortoise
A little snippet from last Saturdays Capoeira class at Flying Tortoise. Come play with us every Tuesday and Saturday!!! Kids classes: Tuesday 4:30-5:30 Saturday 2:00-3:00 Adult classes: Tuesday 5:30-6:30 Saturday 2:45-4:15 #capoeira #capoeirapdx #capoeiraportland #martialarts #capoeriabesouro #flyingtortoise
Uncle Liu messing around with his ShuaiJiao banner. Back in the old days his family would take a banner like this to street fairs to advertise their school. #kungfu #gongfu #shuaijiao #martialarts #wutang #flyingtortoise #portland #beijing
You can check out our studio’s fundamentals and capoeira classes for free: 5 classes over 30 days. Come find out what authentic Kung Fu feels like. We just completed our 2nd monthly sparring club! The next one is listed on our schedule page. Www.flyingtortoise.org/schedule These are free for members and $10 for fundamentals students. My last visit with Grand Master ZhangKai in 2018. Zhang Shiye passed during the pandemic in 2020. He was the 8th Generation Banner Holder of SanHuangPaoChiQuan and teacher to my master WangQi. So many of the old guard have passed these last few years Master Jason Brick teaches a practical self defense class with Master Joey using flashlights and carabiners. It was a fun group aged 10-50. #selfdefense #selfdefensepdx
I like push hands, and so does Guan Shifu. Among other things today we drilled some of the applications common to the Wang branch of Cheng Bagua. #bagua #pakua #baguazhang #pushhands #martialarts #tiantan #flyingtortoise
I have missed this guy! There is no Bagua class like a Zhang Shifu Bagua class. Every movement is like jazz. Hauling my 10 foot spear and da dao home from the temple. It's good to be back in Beijing. From Li Xingren, daughter of Li Ziming. This photo is very precious. It was taken in 1983, 41 years old. In 1983, Peking University was the first university in China to set up a Wushu Association, which invited four old martial artists of different
A little snippet from last Saturdays Capoeira class at Flying Tortoise. Come play with us every Tuesday and Saturday!!! Kids classes: Tuesday 4:30-5:30 Saturday 2:00-3:00 Adult classes: Tuesday 5:30-6:30 Saturday 2:45-4:15 #capoeira #capoeirapdx #ca

  • Tier 1 Classes: are taught primarily by our high quality junior and assistant teachers. No semester registration or membership required. Punch cards and a la carte passes give access to these. These classes provide sufficient material to pass the first 2 levels of testing.

  • Tier 2 Classes: are taught by Master Joey and Master Sen, our senior teachers. These classes have fixed quarterly matriculation dates and require membership to our studio. They move faster and cover more material

  • Testing Days: Feb. 15, Mar. 22, May 3, June 7,

  • Enroll for Master Joey’s and Master Sen's Classes: Next open enrollment dates:

    • January 6-12, 2025

    • March 31-April 6, 2025

    • June 9-15, 2025

    • September, 2025

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Mission Statement: 

Flying Tortoise Kung Fu prides itself on a diverse LGBTQIA and BIPOC supportive atmosphere that facilitates high quality of Martial Arts instruction. We are the only school in the world that is lineaged in and teaches both Liang Bagua and Cheng Bagua.

Students praise the physical therapy aspects of our teaching and veteran martial artists appreciate the depth of instructive detail and combat application.

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Instructors


Instructors


Senior Instructors

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Chris Lum
Chris Lum

“Circle walking is the heart of BaguaZhang; I spend the majority of my training with this complex and fundamental exercise. Being a steward of daily practice is something I’d like to help Bagua students with. I like to encourage students by finding their strengths and building them up to the next level in their practice. I’ve had a lot of patient and intelligent peers in Kung fu, hopefully I can teach like them.” Read more

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Joey Haber, Studio Owner

Master Joey Haber (Professor Sano Guerreiro) is the lead senior instructor and owner of The Flying Tortoise Academy. His studies have taken him to China, Brazil, California, Japan and Hawaii. Joey has focused his efforts in Beijing on Baguazhang, Taijiquan, Xingyiquan and Sanda. Maintaining an authentic Beijing curriculum that is inclusive and supportive of  the studio's diverse student base is his passion.

Capoeira: Shifu Joey’s capoeira rank and name are Professor Santo. He hand his wife, Instrutora Pimenta treasure the relationship they have with their master, Mestre Kinha. They teach all ages 5-100. Good technique, safety and inclusion are central to their capoeira program. Read More

Kate Haber, Studio Manager
Kate Haber, Studio Manager

Kate Haber (“Pimenta”). Has been a student of martial arts since 2006. Her favorites are Northern Chinese Kung Fu, which she studied in Beijing with Joey and Capoeira which she still teaches today. What she finds appealing about both these arts is their ability to positively transform the practitioner from the inside out. She runs a rich kids' capoeira program at Flying Tortoise in addition to managing the studio. Read more.

Fritz Rice
Fritz Rice

Fritz Rice's martial art career started early and has spanned practice in art form mother countries from India to China.  His friendship with Joey as well as his knowledge of Beijing language and culture have propelled Flying Tortoise forwards.  In Seattle, Fritz studies Chen TaiJiChuan under Master Derryl Willis.  He will be traveling from Seattle to Portland about once a month to teach Chen Tai Chi at Flying Tortoise and offer private lessons.  Read More.

Senna Dia
Senna Dia

Hailing from Mobile, AL, Senna Diaz began her lifelong martial arts career in 1989 at the age of six. For decades she has trained in Seoul, New York, San Francisco, and Portland in a number of internal systems including BaGua, TaiJi, XingYi, BajiQuan, and PiGuaQuan. Sen holds a 4th degree black belt and master instructor rank in the Korean art of Soo Bahk Do and attended 2 weeks of training in Beijing fall of 2016. Read more.

Holly
Holly

Holly Ng has been an instructor at River City Warrior since 2015, teaching Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Kali to kids and adults, expanding to online teaching in 2020. She’s been studying Inosanto Kali/JKD for over 12 years and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu for nearly 9 years, currently holding the rank of purple belt under the Pedro Sauer Association. Read more.

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