I became interested in martial arts from an early age, joining a local Taekwondo when I was 9. That was a very practical art, with lots of kicking, and great fun. Athletics and sports always came naturaly to me and I became extremely competent at several in my early years. When football became the dominant sport in my life I sadly had to give up my training in taekwondo.

At the age of 20 I met 2 karate instructors who moved into my street. I joined their school and trained with them nearly every day, becoming their top student. I went into the National All Styles Tournaments as a novice and was undefeated. Moving on to intermediate, I won the Australasian Championships at Homebush Stadium. I then went on to try my luck against the black belts in the Open Advanced category, (even though I was red belt at this stage) I felt ready, I had trained hard and went on to win. I was happier when later that year I won the Men's Open Advanced State Championships. After progressing through the grades to a black belt I was still not completely comfortable that karate was the best martial art, or the right one for me, and so I began the search....... The search ended when I discovered WingTsun. In WingTsun I found an art invented by a woman, an art that doesn't rely on brute strength or force, a brilliant system for unarmed self defence where the more I learned and understood, the more I fell in love with it.This story is similar for many of my fellow WingTsun instructors. Like me, they know that ours is the most practical, the most effective approach to many real life threatening situations. The concepts are simple yet spectacularly powerful, involving forward flowing energy and ability to stick, bending in the face of excessive force and becoming a nightmare for your attacker. The training gives one a lot of confidence and is a highly recommended art to learn.