Sifu Mark Barquera

Sifu Mark Barquera has had the great fortune of traveling abroad and has interacted, learned and shared knowledge of martial arts with practitioners from many different systems. 

 For 26 years, Sifu Mark lived in San Francisco, California, where he lived only two blocks away from the world famous Golden Gate Park.  Golden Gate Park has always been a sanctuary and home to some of the greatest living Masters and practitioners of Chinese Kung Fu in the world.  He was often seen training and teaching in the Golden Gate Park for many years.  He had a large following of loyal disciples that he taught during his time in California.  Sifu Mark has been fortunate to interact and touch hands with a variety of the parks finest martial art masters during those 26 years.  Sifu Mark also played a very strong and positive role in his inner Sunset district neighborhood by volunteering many hours of his time both during the day and also many late nights patrolling the neighborhood on behalf special neighborhood watch committees, Take The Neighborhood Back Project, which was organized by the community together with the San Francisco Police Sunset District Taraval Station and police Captain Keith Sanders, community leaders Buffy and Patrick McGuire, San Francisco board of supervisor Fiona Ma (now serving in the California State Senate).  Sifu Mark received an honorary certificate from the Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsome and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for keeping the neighborhood clean and safe while residents slept at night.  This award ceremony was featured on channel 29 Television show, We The People, with a viewing audience of 750,000, within the San Francisco Bay Area.  Sifu Mark was also awarded and recognized for his hard work and volunteering many hours to build and maintain the neighborhoods first community harmony garden located at LaPlaya and Judah Avenue in San Francisco’s Ochen Beach community shortly before leaving his home in San Francisco and relocating to Phoenix, Arizona in January of 2007.

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