Alamo Community Colleges News & Events

NVC Instructor Receives Highest Honor in Martial Arts

For Immediate Release
July 17, 2007
Contact: Maureen Smith, Public Information Officer, Northwest Vista College
210-348-2011
msmith@accd.edu

Northwest Vista College Tai Chi instructor Sal De la Rosa will receive one of the highest achievement awards in the martial art of Taijiquan. At a ceremony held in Eugene, Oregon on August 26, De la Rosa will be inducted into the family lineage of Master Chen Zhenglei of Chen Village (China), the birthplace of Chen style Taijiquan. Master Zhenglei is the nineteenth generation descendent of the Chen family and the eleventh generation inheritor of Chen style Taijiquan.

According to a recent interview in International Magazine of Tai Chi Chuan, Zhenglei’s goal is to train teachers all over the world the original style of Taijiquan developed by his family over a thousand years ago. De la Rosa has made the top ranks in Master Zhenglei’s system, which means that he has become a “great teacher” of Taijiquan.

Next summer De la Rosa will travel to Chen Family Village, China, where he will be inducted into Master Zhenglei’s lineage and become a member of the twelfth generation inheritor of Chen style Taijiquan.

“We are fortunate to have such a knowledgeable instructor in our kinesiology department,” said discipline leader Vincent Bradford. “Anyone who is interested in learning Tai Chi or Chi Gung from a master teacher should enroll in one of Master Sal De la Rosa’s classes.”