Harvey Kurland
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Harvey Kurland, MSc, MFS, CSCS, is a well known t'ai-chi ch'uan instructor and Exercise Physiologist in Southern California. He is the author of Asian Mind-Body Techniques Revealed ISBN: 978-1-4303-1221-5 and Symmetrical Yang Style T'ai-Chi Ch'uan Vol #1 and Vol #2. [1]
Kurland was the Director of Exercise Physiology for the National Athletic Health Institute for many years where he was in charge of testing the professional teams: LA Rams, LA Lakers, LA Dodgers, and LA Kings. When Kurland was the Director of Exercise Physiology for the National Athletic Health Institute, where he was a consultant for the LAPD Training Academy, Los Angeles Lakers, Kings, Dodgers and Rams before they moved. He worked closely with Sho Kosugi on injury prevention in Kosugi's Open Karate Competitions.
He was also a consultant for the LAPD Training Academy and later was on the CMAAP, Civilian Martial Art Advisory Panel, and LAPD Medical Advisory Board. He then became the Wellness Director for the Community Colleges of Spokane and wrote the CSS Wellness Newsletter. Kurland was a columnist for Inside Kungfu and Inside Karate Magazines for several year, writing a health and fitness column. He also wrote a training column for Police Magazine. He also published articles in Black Belt Magazine, Kick, Physician and Sports Medicine and other journals. Currently he teaches for the University of California Riverside [2], Redlands Aikikai and Riverside Community College.
Kurland teaches Old form of Yang style and Kuang P'ing style forms in Riverside, Loma Linda and Redlands, CA. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the NSCA and Certified Chief Instructor of T'ai-chi ch'uan (taijiquan) by the CTCCA.
Kurland taught t'ai-chi ch'uan and exercise physiology in Spokane WA, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and Seattle WA for many years. His students continue to teach in those areas.
Kurland has tai chi chuan (taijiquan) teaching certification by the Chinese Tai Chi Chuan Association. He was also certified directly by Tchoung Ta-tchen to teach Tchoung's system of the Old form of Yang Style, Hsing-I Ch'uan, and pa-kua chang.
Kurland also studied Red Boat Style (Harris, Yueng) Baguazhang with TT Tchoung, TR Chung, Zhang Jie, ST Ying, and A Dale. He studied Hsing-I ch'uan with ST Ying and TT Tchoung.
Kurland studied with many well known grandmasters including LY Kuo (Kuang P'ing), TR Chung (Kuang P'ing, bagua, tam tui), Raymond Chung (Yang), ST Ying (Wu Style, bagua, Hsing-I), TT Liang (Yang), XW Chen (Chen), and TT Tchoung (Old Yang style, bagua, Hsing-I).
Kurland studied several methods including Wu, Chen and Kuang P'ing styles as well as several versions of Yang style including KY Tung's Verson, TT Liang's Version, Cheng's Version and TT Tchoung's Version.
Kurland trained in Taiwan and Japan, as well as the USA and Canada.
Kurland's profession was as exercise physiologist. He had specific training in Sports Medicine and injury prevention which he used to help prevent unnecessary injuries for LAPD Training Academy and in Tournaments.
Kurland is also Certified by the ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine), NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association), and ISSA (International Sports Sciences Association).
Kurland did several research projects into the effects of t'ai-chi ch'uan which were presented to the American College of Sports Medicine. He also did several research studies on martial art injuries which were presented to the American College of Sports Medicine SW Conference. His research on Karate and Aikido injuries were published in medical journals. He was a health and fitness columnist for Police, Inside Karate and Inside Kungfu Magazines for several years. He was also the Editor of the Community Colleges of Spokane Wellness Newsletter.
Kurland also exercised Cardiac patients in the Centinela Hospital's Cardiac Rehabilitation program. Kurland included t'ai-chi ch'uan and ch'i kung exercises in the cardiac rehabilition program to help the patients. He also taught the methods to nurses running the program so they could use those methods with their patients.
Kurland was a director of seven martial art tournaments. He was the director for seven t'ai-chi ch'uan and internal art tournaments held in Riverside CA and developed rules for pushing hands competition. His tournaments were the first to have specific Kuang P'ing (Guang Ping) and Cheng Style categories. He also was a judge for several USAWKF tournaments.
Kurland also has several instructional DVDs which teach the Symmetrical Yang Style 28 form.
At the present time he teaches for University of California Riverside, Riverside Community College, Redlands Aikikai, Chaffey College and Loma Linda University Drayson Center.
Tchoung's Students and their students who are Certified to Teach
