Dorri Li began her Kung Fu training over twenty years ago in her native town of Boston MA.

Originally drawn to the mental "coolness" of Kung Fu, she soon discovered it to be very physically disciplined. With her dad a professional golfer, Dorri grew up in a physically active family. But nothing prepared her for the type of training that she would do in Kung Fu Classes were long and arduous with a lot of time spent on stationary stance work and internal breathing techniques. Instructions were given mostly in Chinese and Dorri was expected to follow them. These exercises took her way past her physical limits and into a mental battle with a formidable opponentherself.

She attributes much of the strength of her will now to the type of training that she received in her early years of training.

It was in her Kung Fu class that Dorri met Yao Li, another young student who would later become her husband and partner in Martial Arts. Together they trained, taught, performed and competed. Developing a performance team and founding what is now the BKFTC Institute.

Both the team and the studio became quite popular and well known for their high caliber of Kung Fu skills. Their students include Robert Parish and Pulitzer prize winning playwright David Mamet.

After the birth of her second child, Dorri started taking aerobics classes to get back in shape. For Dorri, after so many years of serious martial arts training, aerobics provided a nice change of pace. She soon realized that combining martial arts techniques with aerobics would make an aerobics workout more focused, more powerful and with greater mental rewards.

For six years, she took a minimum of 34 aerobics classes a week, learning how some of the Boston's best aerobics instructors teach. Dorri also received individual coaching in how to teach aerobics and is Certified by AFAA.

Dorri is currently completing work on a manual for kung Fu fitness training. She plans to teach at Workshops and conventions nationally and internally. One of her goals is to train other aerobics instructors in how to teach Kung Fu fitness programs. She believes that Kung Fu fitness gives you an edge on self defense and in a broader sense an edge on life with a greater ability to respond with grace, balance and control.