User:TaijiZen/David-Dorian Ross

David-Dorian Ross

David-Dorian Ross is a Taijiquan (aka T’ai Chi Ch'uan) player, teacher, and author. He has developed his own Taijiquan class titled TaijiFit™ and is currently working with Jet Li as a master instructor for Li’s company Taiji Zen.

Taijiquan career
David-Dorian Ross has been playing Taijiquan for 35 years. He is America’s “Chi-vangelist,” whose public appearances introduce people to the benefits, accessibility and sheer joy of learning Taijiquan. Inside Kung Fu Magazine called him “the man who brought T’ai Chi into the mainstream”.

David-Dorian's Taijiiquan instructional DVDs have sold more than 1 million copies world-wide. He is the host and star of the PBS special "T’ai Chi, Health and Happiness", and is the best-selling author of numerous books, including Exercising the Soul.

David-Dorian is the founder of TaijiFit™ – the first Taiji-based fitness instructor training program recognized by the fitness industry.

David-Dorian also holds the record as America’s competitive wushu Taijiquan Champion – winning 8 US Gold Medals, a World Silver medal and 2 World Bronze medals in Taijiquan performance (still the highest record of any American wushu Taijiquan athlete).

In 2013, David-Dorian officially partnered with Taiji Zen to bring the message of "Health and Happiness for all" through Taiji to the Western world.