Eventually, the Oregon Karate Association was re-named the Professional Martial Arts Association to reflect the wide array of skills being applied to the system.  Wu Ying Tao students have found its application effective when applied to all types of martial arts, whether karate, kung-fu; both soft and hard styles.  Being such a practical and effective approach to martial arts training, the versatility of Wu Ying Tao has appealed to many martial artists from a variety of backgrounds.  Today, many people who earned black belts in Wu Ying Tao have branched off to other methods of martial arts practice that build on the original principles of the style.  Others have remained faithful to those principles by advancing and promoting the Wu Ying Tao concepts while continuing to discover new, interesting ways of applying those concepts.

Today, the Professional Martial Arts Association exists as a cooperative of martial arts schools and instructors teaching Wu Ying Tao in several locations in the Northwest and California.

 

Northwest Martial Arts of Salem is one of the newest schools in the association, begun in January of 2005 by instructor Marshall Buchholz.  Marshall began his practice of Wu Ying Tao in 1975, and was awarded his black belt by Bruce Terrill.  His current teacher is Master Leo Hoeft, a fifth degree black belt in Wu Ying Tao.  Sifu Leo's accomplishment include numerous tournament championships.  He currently leads Team Ezra through the competition circuit.  View Team Ezra videos here. Bruce Terrill continues to teach private lessons and guide the course of the Wu Ying Tao system.  As Wu Ying Tao grows in popularity in the twenty-first century, instructors and students continue discovering new and exciting ways of applying the principles of "The Formless Way" to their martial arts practice.