All Chinese Shao-Lin Center Head Instructors are required to attend special Instructor Seminar and Training Workshops organized by Elder Masters David and Sharon Soard every six months and to train with Shao-Lin Grandmaster Sin Kwang Thé at least once a year. During these workshops, Head Instructors continue their intense training for advancement, correct and polish previous material, are given business and instruction training, and are reevaluated. All CSC Head Instructors must also re-certify their teaching credentials each and every year with Elder Masters David and Sharon Soard and Grandmaster Sin Kwang Thé.

All classes in Albuquerque are taught by Certified Head Instructors, Associate Master Abram Tamez and Leslie Phillips. Their training is ongoing and they are the only two people in New Mexico certified to teach Shao-Lin Kung-Fu by a Shao-Lin Grandmaster.

Master Tamez and Ms. Phillips are full-time Shao-Lin instructors and all of their martial training have been at Chinese Shao-Lin Centers under the direction of Certified Head Instructors, Certified 8th Degree Black Belt Elder Masters David and Sharon Soard, and current Shao-Lin Grandmaster, Sin Kwang Thé.

Abram Tamez has received intense, uninterrupted training in the Shao-Lin art since 1997 and has attained the rank of 5th Degree Black Belt Associate Master. He continues to train and advance toward 6th Degree Black Belt Master level with new, more complex material including extensive Tien Hsueh death point/pressure point striking, Omei Daggers, and Iron Choptsicks!

Leslie Phillips has received her uninterrupted training in the Shao-Lin Art since 2001. She has attained the rank of 4th Degree Black Belt and continues her Shao-Lin training toward 5th Degree Black Belt Associate Master over an unprecedented number of new empty hand forms and weapons These include Eight Drunken Immortals Boxing, 5 Animal Style (Choy Lay Fut), Double Butterfly Swords, Drunken Spear, Drunken Broadsword, and Drunken Straightsword to name a few.

Master Tamez and Ms. Phillips have each learned over 108 different authentic Shao-Lin forms, are proficient in over 20 different Shao-Lin weapons, and have each studied over a dozen internal areas of Classical Shao-Lin Kung-Fu, including Tai Chi, Pa Kua, and Hsing-I!

Ms. Phillips and Master Tamez have traveled extensively to popular as well as remote locations throughout China with the Shao-Lin Grandmaster, Sin Kwang The' and Elder Master David and Sharon Soard. They have demonstrated classical Shao-Lin Kung-Fu for audiences at the famous Shao-Lin Temple in Honan province, the southern Fukien Shao-Lin Temple, Wudan Mountain, Inner Mongolia, Chengde, and in Shandong province. They have visited important historical sites and cities including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, the Southern Shao-Lin Temple in Qanzhou, the Southern Shao-Lin Temple in Putian, the historic Water Margin stronghold in Shandong, the home of Confucious, Mount Tai Shan, Mount Huang Shan, and have walked upon the Great Wall of China! Master Tamez is also among the first non-family persons to receive special permission from the Chinese government to visit the private tomb of the great Pa Kua Master, Tung Hai Chuan in 2004!