YURI N. MONKHOEV

08.19.1950 - 08.20.2019

Yuri Nikolaevich Monkhoev was born in 1950 in Tibet. At the age of two he became a pupil of the Tescao family. He spent 14 years in intensive training. During Chinese invasion and occupation, the family destroyed the school and left Tibet. Family members fled in all different directions. 

At the age of 16, Monkhoev’s teacher took him through Mongolia to Ulan Ude in Buryatia where he became a “family” member and had his Russian name - Yuri Nikolaevich Monkhoev. In the next two years he moved to the Caucasus where he found ideal conditions for his training: mountains, forests, lakes and rivers. He started training his first students after the Iron Curtain fell.

He built a school in Sochi on the Black Sea and began instructing students in his family style of Tescao. Later, he built a second school in Novosibirsk, Siberia.

In 2005 he sanctioned Tescao Atlanta the only Tescao school in the United States.

 

ALEXEI OVTCHINNIKOV

Alexei graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Physical Culture and Sports in 1983 with a Master of Science in Sports Medicine and Massage. Three years later he was invited to teach in the Leningrad Military Institute of Physical Culture and Sports. He opened his own school in 1990 and began with over 300 students enrolled.

In 1991, Alexei came to the USA and began to work as an exercise physiologist and massage therapist for the Orthopedic Medicine Clinic in Atlanta, Ga. Alexei Ovtchinnikov has appeared on Channel 11's Peachtree Morning program, ABC Channel, CBS 46 Atlanta's News Channel, and in various print articles.

Since 1999 Alexei has given numerous demonstrations and workshops around USA including Grandmaster Willem de Thouars's Family Gathering in 2001 and 2002.

His achievements include:

  • Master of Sports of the USSR in Sambo and Judo (1973)

  • Champion of the first ever Judo tournament in Leningrad, Russia (1973)

  • Chief Referee of the first USSR Karate Championship (1981)

  • Master of Science (MS) in Sports Medicine and Massage (1983)

  • Founder of Atlanta Taiji Gongfu Association in 1997

  • Trained Gold Medalists of International T’ai Chi Championships in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

  • Certified Sifu in Kun Tao Silat de Thouars (2000)

  • Founder of Tescao, LLC (2004)

  • Certified as a Lineage Disciple and as an instructor (GURU) of Willem de Thouars Makao Kuntao Serak & Kuntao Silat (2018)