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sifu1 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.

sifu1a 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.

sifu1a1 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. John just completed his Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment

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