Joe Martin

Joe Martin is a martial artist, teacher, author and bodywork practitioner with approximately 63 years of martial arts training and more than 30 years of Taijiquan practice. His Yang-family Taijiquan study includes the Big Frame 88 and continuing study of Yang Old Frame with Liang Dehua. He is a Certified Structural Integration practitioner, trained in Professional Kinesiology Practice (PKP), developer of Esomassage and founder of Esoma Kungfu. His writing seeks to preserve traditional principles while using contemporary terminology and practical observation to make internal training understandable, trainable and demonstrable. He is the author of the four-volume Yang Taijiquan Student Canon and the founder of ESOMA Press, an independent American publisher of works on internal martial arts and integrative bodywork.