Patrick A Kelly

Patrick A Kelly was born in New Zealand in 1950. He studied martial arts from childhood. While completing his BSc in pure mathematics, he began Taiji with an experienced student of Master Huang Xingxian in 1973. In 1977 he moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he studied full time in Master Huang's school. In 1979, following tradition, Master Huang accepted Patrick Kelly as his personal disciple - the only non-Chinese to ever enter Huang's inner-school. From that time Patrick Kelly travelled and taught beween Asia, New Zealand, Australia and Europe establishing a school in Auckland, NZ, in 1980. Huang often visited to teach in the NZ school and obtained permanent residency for NZ in 1992 shortly before he died. In that year, at the express wish of his teacher, Patrick Kelly established a Europe wide teaching network, where 20 senior students (20+ years Taiji and 10+ years with Patrick) and 80 close students (average 10 to 15 years Taiji) teach some thousands of students through their independent schools.