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 Master Si-Fu Stefan Fischer was born in Germany in 1967 and started to practise martial arts at the age of 5 . He practised Judo, Shaolin Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do, Thai- and Kickboxing and street fighting which led him to WingTsun. For five years Sifu Stefan Fischer trained eight hours a day, seven days a week in WingTsun, under the guidance of Grand Master K.R. Kernspecht. He managed nine schools in Germany with hundreds of students. He has been a private student of Grandmaster Kernspecht, Master Edel, Master Schroen and many others.
His longtime occupation as a doorman and body guard gave him valuable "on hand" experience which now immensely benefits his students. As a bodyguard his services were required by the likes of Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude van Damme and Bob Wall. He has been involved in setting up and running the IPSO (International Protection Service Organisation) and at the same time he was running his own security company. In 1994 he was appointed as Chief-instructor and Representative of the Australian Escrima and WingTsun Organisation (AUEWTO) by his teachers Grandmaster Keith R. Kernspecht (European Chief Instructor) and Grandmaster Leung Ting (World Chief Instructor).
In the year 2000 he was introduced in to the Blitz Hall of Fame as the Kung Fu instructor of the Year. In June 2001, after 4 years of preparation, he received out of the hands of his Si-Fu Grandmaster K.R. Kernspecht and his Si-Gung Grandmaster Leung Ting the 4th Technican Level WingTsun. In 2008 Si-Fu Stefan Fischer was awarded the 5th Pratician Master level of WingTsun by his Si-Fu Grandmaster K.R. Kernspecht
Sifu Stefan Fischer has direct authorisation by Grandmaster Leung Ting and Grandmaster Kernspecht to act as Chief Instructor and Representative of the Leung Ting WingTsun System in Australia. He alone is responsible for establishing and directing the AWTN and is in charge of instructing and testing all WingTsun tutors in Australia. He also claims responsibility for the distribution of geographical rights to open a WT school in Australia.
 Si-Hing Peter Caro has been actively involved with martial arts for the past 25 years. Training in varies styles from the age of 11. The last 9 years have been intensely dedicated to the study and training of WT under his Si-Fu, Master Stefan Fischer.
Before starting with WT he had all but given up on finding a martial art system that would really work on the street. What he found when he first saw a demonstration of WT given by one of Sifu Stefan’s students was as he puts it, “too logical and too practical to be true!” So he had to try it for himself. After training a short time with Sifu Stefan’s student, he was convinced enough of WT’s worth as a system that works on the street to asked if he would be accepted as a fulltime student of Sifu Stefan. His aim was to learn directly from the source of WT in Australia. After being accepted as a fulltime student, he began his fulltime training routine of 3 to 6 hours of training a day, 6 days a week. Peter has verified that WT works on the street for himself. In his last two street encounters he defended himself using the WT techniques and principles against three attackers and the another incident where he restrained a larger opponent who was physically harassing a female friend.
Peter is Sifu Stefan’s highest graded instructor student in Australia, holding the 2nd Technician level in WT. He now supplements his regular WT Instructor training with weekly private lessons from his Si-Fu and never misses a seminar held by WT Masters and Grand Masters when they visit Australia. He now teaches at the WT HQ in Sydney, where he is charge when Sifu Stefan is absent.
 Si-Hing Otto Heutling is one of the highest and most experienced instructors directly under Master Stefan Fischer, the Australian Chief Instructor for WingTsun. His martial arts career began more than 20 years ago at the age of six with Judo. The arts of Boxing and Wing Chun were next whilst living in Sydney for three years as a child. On his return to Germany he began studying Karate before moving on to Jeet Kune Do and then Kick Boxing. While all these arts had their strong points and Otto had trained under instructors that were certainly impressive in one way or another, he was not quite satisfied, still searching for the "ultimate" self-defence system.
Only after reading "On Single Combat" by Grandmaster Keith R. Kernspecht he was convinced he had found it, without even seeing it before. He was astonished by the logic and simplicity of the Leung Ting system that seemed to have all the advantages that other styles lacked. Everything made sense and nothing was left to chance. All this was confirmed after seeing a demonstration of his later Si-Fu. The control and speed was unparralleled by anything he had seen before. Otto joined the WingTsun classes in Maroubra and only a few months later became the first Australian full-time student.
One year later Otto started teaching himself, taking classes in Maroubra and Hurstville and assisting Sifu Fischer at the new headquaters in Randwick. He now runs his own school in Parramatta but has also spent time conducting seminars interstate and representing the AUEWTO with demonstrations at various martial arts expos and tournaments. In 2001 he won the title in the division of best self-defence demonstration at the 4th. Annual Australian Martial Arts Championships at the States Sports Centre in Homebush.
 Si-Hing Juergen Baha started to learn Martial Arts in 1987 at the age of 15. Taekwondo was very popular in his hometown in Germany at that time and so he joined a local club where he trained passionately for 5 years. In a self defence situation he made the painful experience that in a real street fight hands, knees and elbows are more useful then long distance high kicks.
A little disappointed he didn't train for a while, except visiting a couple of seminars with Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, until a friend asked him to come to his boxing class. Actually he always wanted to learn Jeet Kune Do or a Kung Fu style, named WingTsun he had read about in Bruce Lee's Tao of JKD. But he couldn't find any club in the city he grew up in.
Finally he explored a WingTsun school in 1995, owned by his prospective Si-Fu, Stefan Fischer. After a demo and a trial lesson he already knew that he had found what he was looking for all those years. What impressed him so much was that WT is based on principles and not on dead techniques, also the simultaneously accurate coordination of legs and hands in all distances. And of course the fast tactile reflexes you'll develop in the unique Chi Sao (sticky hands/arms) training.
In 1999 Si-Hing Juergen became a full time student and started teaching in the former school of his Si-Fu where he first explored WT. Every weekend and as much as he could during the week he went with heart and soul for 6 hours training a day to the HQ of the European WingTsun Organisation in Germany, the famous castle Langenzell near Heidelberg.
It was in the same year he arrived for the very first time in Australia, training for 3 months every day at the HQ of the Australian WingTsun Organisation under his Si-Fu in Randwick/Sydney. Back in "cold" Germany he decided to come back one day to live and to open his own WT School "down under".
Meanwhile he continued training at "The Castle", including Blitz-Defence Instructor seminars for men & women and many special seminars with GM Kernspecht and/or GGM Leung Ting, plus countless WT Masters of the EWTO.
On the 23rd of May 2003 he opened the first school for the Leung Ting WingTsun System in Brisbane where he teaches WT and the Blitz-Defence concept for men & women. To advance his skills preparing for the 1st technician level and keeping his knowledge up to date he frequently travels to the AUEWTO HQ in Sydney.
 Si-Hing Andrew Diehm. 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.
 John Simonides started martial arts at the age of fourteen where he studied Judo for some time. John enjoyed his time learning Judo and found it had many good elements but discovered it was more affective in the training than on the street. Judo was soon followed by Karate. Like his Judo experience, he enjoyed Karate but was after a martial art where the focus was on self defence instead of competition. While investigating the wide range of styles, a martial arts expert suggested that he has a look at the style of Kung Fu that the famous Bruce Lee began training in - Wing Chun. In his pursuit for the ultimate self defence martial art, he compared the various lineages of the Kung Fu taught by the late Yip Man and found that the approach to self defence by the Wing Tsun system was unique, concise yet very affective while still being a traditional Kung Fu style that had a structured, ego-free environment.
John began his training under Si-Fu Fischer and Si-Hing Peter Caro in 2005 at the Wing Tsun Head Quarters in Sydney. He began training at an average of five to six days a week. Eighteen months after joining, John found that this was very much the system for him and wanted to improved and increase his training further. Subsequently, John was soon accepted into the Instructor Program where he now studies and trains Wing Tsun full time at the Australian Wing Tsun Head Quarters. He also assists Si-Fu and Si-Hing Peter with the regular classes at the Australian Wing Tsun Head Quarters in Chippendale, Sydney.
 Steve Nelson I guess I made a relatively late start into the world of the martial arts. As a kid I was always interested in martial arts, I would watch movies and wish I could do what they did on the screen. Unfortunately I was a very shy and quiet child and never had the confidence to act on my dreams.
It wasn’t until I was 18 when I made my first foray in the fighting arts. I met a Kick Boxing instructor in my home town of Wagga Wagga and decided that I would “bite the bullet” so to speak, and give it a go. It certainly improved my fitness and confidence to a certain degree and I definitely enjoyed the classes.
The problem was, that the more I trained the more I realised the limitations of the system I was learning. I didn’t see the real world applications of a lot of the techniques. When would I be in a position to apply a flying knee? And in a crowded place wearing jeans, how practical is a high round kick going to be?
Once I moved to Sydney, my search for the right martial art for me began again. As a country boy in the “Big City” I felt I needed a method of self defence that would allow me to develop usable skills in a relatively short time. I also wanted it to be practical and effective. Fancy spinning kicks and complex moves look great on film but are just not realistic on the street, or in a club for that matter.
My search ended when I stumbled upon the website for WingTsun. I did some reading, checking out the history and the theories behind WingTsun. Even before I attended the demonstration class, I had a feeling that this could be what I had been looking for. Everything in the theory of how and why WingTsun is the way it is made complete sense to me and this feeling was confirmed on witnessing Si-Hing Otto in action in his demonstration. Every movement was direct and efficient, with no wasted energy, or un-necessarily flashy moves. Self defence in its purest form.
One of the major problems I saw in my kick boxing was that the bigger the opponent the harder it was to defend their attacks and the more power I had to exert to make my attacks effective. With WingTsun, due to there being no reliance on raw power, the size of one’s opponent is not a factor. The fact that the nature of WingTsun allows a physically smaller opponent to feel confident in their ability to defend themselves against a bigger and stronger opponent made a great deal of sense and was a major factor in my decision to study WingTsun. My confidence, both in my ability to defend myself and in life in general have grown exponentially since the beginning of my training.
I have been studying WingTsun on most nights of the week since 2005 and am now full time. The more I learn, the more I love it and the more convinced I am that there is no more effective a method of self defence for the average person.
 Si-Hing Holger Koch Si-Hing Holger Koch began his Martial Arts career over 20 years ago in Germany. It started with a Karate class near his hometown where he trained for a number of years he then moved on to Kick Boxing. It was during this period that he discovered his business partner was a Choi Lee Fat Kung Fu teacher. He became his student and trained with him for a number of years. It was in 1994 that Sihing Holger had a life changing conversation while at a party with a person about Kung Fu, when the person asked him to give him a punch.
Surprised to find that none of his punches worked, Sihing Holger was intrigued and decided to attend a Wing Tsun demonstration. He became a full time student after three months of training and later qualified to teach in the former schools of his Sifu in Germany for seven years.
In 2004 Holger moved to Melbourne where he began training under Sifu Stefan Fischer in Sydney. He opened his first school in 2007 where he teaches Wing Tsun to both men & women. He regularly travels to the Sydney head office to advance his skills and is currently preparing for his 3rd technician level.
What continues to impress him most about the Wing Tsun system is its effectiveness in particular its unique tactile reflex training.
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