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Biographical information for Grandmaster Joe Martin
1963 to 2018
Karate Lineage:
Chōtoku Kyan: Shorin-ryu, Chōjun Miyagi: Goju Ryu, Chōki Motobu, Taira Shinken
Tatsuo Shimabukuro: Founder of Isshin-ryū
Sensei Don Nagle: Goshin Kai
Sensei Bob Alexander - Goshin Kai
Joe Martin: 1963 - 1966 (ikkyū)
Li Ka Kung Fu Lineage: From Lima Peru
Grand Master Li K*m San (Li ka Kung Fu), Master Lung (Kam Ka Kung Fu), Master Li Choy Leon (Choy Ka Kung Fu
Master Alfredo Sui (Li Ka Kung Fu)
Joe Martin: 1966 -1975 (2nd Star Black Sash)
Other Kung Fu
Sifu R Jerry Hobbs (Hong Chun Kung Fu)
Joe Martin 1974 (4th Black)
Master J Keeniean Sifu George Phipps (Chun Li Kung Fu)
Joe Martin 1974 - 1975 (4th Black)
Professor Albert Church
Grand Master John Stover (Stover Lau Su Lum Fa)
Joe Martin 1975 - present Su Lum Fa "Shao Lin Method"(4th Black)
Sijo (Soke)Joe Martin - 1985 Founder of Esoma Kung Fu -Awarded, recognized and issued by the Shaolin
Kempo Karate Federation International
Wu Dang Dan Pai/Yang Family Tai Chi Lineage
Zhang San-Feng: Originator
Zhang Song-Xi: First Generation
Zhao Tai-Bin: 2nd Generation
Wang Jui-Cheng: 3rd Generation
Yan Xi-Sheng: 4th Generation
Lu Shi-Niang: 5th Generation
Li Da Nian: 6th Generation
Chen Yin-Chang: 7th Generation
Zhang Ye-He: 8th Generation
Song Wei-Yi: 9th Generation
Li Jing-lin: 10th Generation
Yang Kui-Shan: 11th Generation
Qian Timing: 12th Generation
Todd Qian (son of Qian Timing) 1993 - 1996
Joe Martin Private inside student of Todd Qian
Universal Healing Tao (Thailand)/Healing Tao USA - Grand Master Mantak Chia/Michael WInn 1999 -
present. Full Instructor of the Universal Healing Tao System and Tai Chi Qigong certification
Additional notable teachers:
Masters Volker Jung - Yang Tai Chi (Germany)
Master Zhao Ya Jun - Tong Bei Chen which came from Wu Dang (China)
Master George Xu - Tai Chi, BaGua, Tsing I (San Francisco)
Master Jiang Bao Kang - 12 Animal Xing-Yi Quan (China)
Master Yun Yin Sen - Liu He Ba Fa - (Shanghai)
Master Lui Bao Yu - Chung Style Taiji "old Yang style Taiji" (China)
Joe Martin began his martial arts and healing work in the early ‘60s and has studied many martial arts,
bodywork techniques and natural healing methods over 50 years. Joe Martin began teaching Martial
arts in 1965 as an assistant instructor with Sensei Bob Alexander and has taught classes and seminars
continually to date. He opened the Silver Dragon Kung fu Academy on E. 7th Street in Charlotte. North
Carolina in 1973 with Sifu Buddy Springs. The famous Silver Dragon Kungfu Academy in Charlotte, NC
was a magnet for those seeking "Kungfu" as a path to martial arts for a higher purpose. Grandmaster Joe Martin has been a powerful influence to countless individuals who were searching for
martial arts as not only a means of self defense, but also as a way of life. He and his teacher, Sensei Bob
Alexander, opened the door to teaching self defense in College when they taught Students at Central
Piedmont Community College. These classes started in 1965 and lasted continually for more than 40
years. Many of the extraordinary secrets were handed down to one of Grandmaster Martin’s teacher, Mantak
Chia by a Taoist monk (Master Yi Eng). And it was Master Cheng Yao-Lun who taught Grand Master Chia
the Shaolin Method of Internal Power that was regarded as a national treasure of China. Grand master Martin has taught thousands of students, mostly in the shadows and in quite places in the
Carolinas. He spent 9 years teaching up to 12 weeks per year in Europe. GM Martin still teaches clinics,
seminars and private students. Two major trips to China were instrumental in his understanding and
As the developer of "PowerPlus Martial Art Secrets", Grandmaster has opened the doors to bringing
back many of the secrets of the ancient masters that were not taught to non-Asians. His understand and
ability to transfer these ancient secrets to martial artists of all levels is unparallel in the martial arts
community. Many of the secrets not passed down by the ancient masters were thought to take years to
master. Grandmaster Joe Martin is able to demonstrate and teach many of these secrets where every
student is able to master most in just minutes. The power demonstrated by his "zero-inch punch" is
renowned and unprecedented. He created a modern Tai Chi method Tai Chi for the Living Room; designed to provide the student with
all the health-giving benefits people expect to receive when studying other forms of Tai Chi, but in 1/10
the time or less. Tai chi for the Living Room requires only one squire meter of space and teaches the
Chinese healing principles of the Five Elements, Ba Gua, Yin and Yang, plus the emotional balancing
properties of the 10 major organs. Students from the age of seven to eighty-two have enjoyed the
healing benefits of Tai Chi for the Living Room. Grandmaster Joe Martin, as a Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi teacher, has been sought after for five
decades for his skills and knowledge in the "soft style" martial arts. As a demonstration of his ability to
use non invasive tactics, he fought a Six-foot black bear at Charlotte's Park Center. He is married to Dr. Sandrine Martin; has 3 daughters, 9 grand children and 2 great-grand children
(2019). "I love learning new and exciting methods of using the body and mind as a tool for healing and/or
controlling aggression. Principles are more important to me than techniques - learn a technique, one has
a technique; learn a principle and one can create countless techniques." Notable Achievements:
• Awarded “Grand Master of the Year” in 2004 by the World Head of Family Sokeship Council’s
International Martial Arts Achievement Award.
• Awarded "Best Tai Chi Fist" by the Cloud Forest Chin Woo Martial Arts Association
• Published in the book Who's Who in the Martial Arts
• Developer of Esomassage
• Graduate of The Therapeutic Massage Training Institute
• Certified Structural Integration Practitioner
• Certified Charka Technician by the World Institute of Technologies for Healing, a.i.s.b.l.
• Recognition from the Tree of Light Institute, Inc. for the Body System’s Approach To Natural
Healing
• Touch for Health I – IV – Certified by the International Kinesiology College (IKC)
• Professional Kinesiology Practice (PKP) Level I
• Reiki Level II
• Founder of Esoma Kungfu
• President of the ESOMA Society Of Martial Arts
• Founder of the Center for Holistic Instruction, LLC
• Past Professional Member of the National Qigong Association
• Member of the American Chinese Chi Gong Acupressure Association
• Member of the International Black Belts Association since 1975
• MAT by Erik Dalton
• Trigger Point Therapy
• Movement Therapy
• The Berry Method® of Corrective Massage
• Chi Nei Tsang Chinese Abdominal Massage
• The MyoKinesthetic System
