Sifu Viola Brumbaugh brings her great passion for Chinese martial arts into her teaching. Her classes are engaging, fun, challenging and rejuvenating at the same time. She brings a combination of tradition and creativity, knowledge and humility, hard work and sense of humor to each of her classes, coaching students to achieve their best. Wise Orchid Martial Arts is a continuation of the traditions of Yang Taijiquan, Wing Chun, Chen Taijiquan, Qigong and other internal Chinese martial arts, as transmitted by the many outstanding masters to whom Sifu Brumbaugh has been privileged to train with and study. Background in tradition: Sifu Viola Brumbaugh is a fourth-generation Tai Chi student in the direct lineage of Grandmaster Yang Cheng Fu and a third-generation Wing Chun student in the direct lineage of Grandmaster Yip Man through her teacher, Master David Leung. Sifu Brumbaugh is one of only three “indoor students,” or chosen disciples of Master Leung. And through her dedicated practice, in 2007, she was inducted as a disciple of Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei, the 19th generation Chen Family lineage holder and one of the National Treasures of China. In addition to her primary teachers, Master David Leung and Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei, Sifu Brumbaugh has traveled the United States and China with the express purpose of training and learning from the highest level teachers in the world, among them are renowned grandmasters George Xu, Ma Hong, Wang Hao Da, Wei Chun Yuan, Jiang Bao Kang, Sun Jun Yu, Shaolin Monk Shi DeCheng, and Master Sam Massich.