Membership is $25 a year, and is open to anyone who is training in Ma Gui style bagua. To be a member you need to have taken a class with Li Baohua or Andrea Falk, and have paid your dues for the year. You should take at least one class each year to make sure you are on the right track.

The association has a PayPal account so that you can pay for the shirts and the association can pay its own way directly through PayPal. Andrea also accepts cash if you pay at a seminar. Membership funds go towards paying the running costs of the association. No funds go to the any of the volunteers for work done on the website, accounting, the forum, the tshirts (the original tshirt screens are property of the association, so it pays for them), or any other projects. Seminar fees are not part of the association. So this means that everyone volunteers for administrative work, but not necessarily for teaching. This is why there are no member discounts for seminars with Andrea, she can't afford to donate that money. The other side of that means that Andrea spends her own money to train with Li Baohua.