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| | | 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. 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 AUEWTO 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 Otto Heutling is one of the highest and most experienced instructors directly under Sifu 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 Matthew Fitzmaurice was first introduced to the Martial Arts with Judo in 1985. He went on to learn Taekwondo and obtained the rank of Black Belt but always felt there was something missing from his path to learning Self Defence. This lead him to Wu Shu. Si-Hing Matt learnt Taekwondo and WuShu together for a couple of years before stopping the Taekwondo and continuing with the Wu Shu. Moving around Sydney saw him also training in Kick Boxing and Akido. Finally, he wondered in to one of Si-Hing Stephan Mai's classes in Newtown. The scientific simplicity of WingTsun blew him away and he knew he did not need to look any longer. Si-Hing Matt is one of Sifu Stefan Fischer's fulltime students (training 5 days a week) and is now assisting Si-Fu with classes at the AUEWTO headquarters in Randwick. | 
| | Like most of the WT instructors Peter Caro didn't begin his Martial Arts study with WingTsun. It started many years ago now, when he was just 11 years old. Starting with Tae-Kwon-Do, which was the only Martial Arts school close to home. He felt an affinity with the discipline and training involved with the Korean style. But as he matured and began to explore the world of Martial Arts, his needs and ideas also began to change. Never being interested in competitions he left his Tae Kwon Do training and began to search for something else. Wing Chun was his next stop. The famed system that Bruce Lee began training in. Although fond of the principles behind the system, the actual school was not to his liking, so after some time he moved on. Real self defence was now becoming his main concern in relation to martial arts. Through two friends he was introduced to the Jow Ga style of Kung Fu. After training for some time, he felt that this style also didn't help his aim of finding a Martial Art that worked on the street. At this point he gave up on traditional Martial Arts. But continued to train with a few dedicated friends in their garages mixing up everything they had accumulated over the years. It wasn't until some years later that by chance he saw a demonstration by one of Sifu Stefan Fischer's head students. Here he saw first hand the logic, practicality, efficiency and no nonsense approach to real self defence that is the WT system. After training with Sifu Fischers head student for a few months he realised that WT was exactly what he was looking for. Peter was then accepted as a full time student and began training directly under Si-Fu Fischer as an instructor student. His training routine for the first 3 years of WT training was 6 days a week between 3 and 6 hour a day. With his si hing Otto Heutling they are the highest ranked WT instructors in Australia under Si-Fu Stefan Fischer. Peter now supplements his regular WT Instructor training with private lessons from his Si-Fu. | 
| | 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 Michael Keshishian has been training Wing Tsun since 2002. He is an instructor and a full-time student under Si Fu Stefan Fischer. Michael began training in the martial arts at the age of 15, studying Tae Kwon Do for a short time. In 1989 he embarked on a 5 year course of study in Traditional Chinese medicine, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine. As part of this course, Michael trained kung fu (and continued this training for over a decade), Tai Ji (for 6 years) and Judo (for 2 years). Michael then trained extensively in the Philippino weapons arts of Arnis/Escrima and Balintawak over 5 years. At the time, he felt that the Philippino arts were superior to any other system of self defence that he had experienced up until that point. Then, in 2002 Michael came across the book "On Single Combat". Having read the book, and with his interest and curiosity thoroughly enlivened by Grandmaster Kernspecht's elegant elucidation of the principles of combat, Michael began his training in Wing Tsun. Within in a few months of training Michael was left in no doubt where his martial arts calling lay. In mid 2004, Michael decided to take his training and commitment to Wing Tsun to a higher level, becoming a full-time student of Si Fu Stefan Fischer, and traveling regularly to Sydney to train under him. Michael is also an accredited Level 1 coach with the National Coaching Accreditation Scheme (NCAS) through the Australian Sports Commission, and runs his own Traditional Chinese medicine practice which has been in operation for over a decade. Michael very much looks forward to sharing the art of Wing Tsun with his students. | 
| | 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. | 
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