Bipeds of Brookland: Alex King

Bipeds Of Brookland:

Introducing the people who make Brookland their home, one step at a time.

Alex King

Alex King lives in the house where he grew up in Brookland. He remembers building fortresses with friends in Ft. Bunker Hill Park. He’s now raising his children there.

He took his first Tai Chi class for an exercise credit at GWU. He liked it so much he enrolled several times. “When I graduated I sought out a Tai Chi and Kung Fu school, and jumped in head first.” Alex has competed in and judged tournaments all over the US and abroad. He has been to China several times to study and to visit temples in the Wu Dong Mountains where his Kung Fu line originated.

Today he runs a traditional Kung Fu and Tai Chi studio from his house with classes for adults and children. Alex completed a Master’s in Herbal Medicine and ran a wellness center in Bethesda for six years before opening his studio. Practicing herbal medicine is very time consuming and since he now has small children, Alex decided to focus on Kung Fu and Tai Chi for now.

He hopes to restart his herbal medicine practice in the future. “My idea for Dragon Gate DC is to have a pretty local sphere…  most of my students are local, and it would be nice to have that same local neighborhood feel with the herbal practice, too.”