Sifu Aidan Canavan has been practising Wing Tsun for over 20 years. He has trained in China, England, Ireland and Germany and has been teaching for almost 20 years as well in different locations in Dublin.

With enthusiasm he has become the representative for Dai-Sifu Rainer Tausend for Ireland over the last years.

If you wish to know about Sifu Aidan’s Martial Arts history, please have a look at the historic section in the Gallery.

Sifu Aidan was awarded his 4th TG in Wing Tsun in December 2006 by Sigung Keith Kernspecht in London. Sifu Aidan also holds the 5th Student Grade in Newman Escrima.

Sifu Aidan teaches in the Dublin City Centre Club, but also gives grading seminars in the other clubs of the IEWTO.

Classes in the Blanchardstown area of North-West Dublin are taught by Si-Hing Michael O’Leary. Michael began his Wing Tsun training on the 5 th of February 1993 in the Manchester branch of what was then Grandmaster Leung Ting’s “British/Irish Wing Tsun Organisation”. When he returned to Ireland later that year he continued his training with Sifu Aidan Canavan with whom he still studies.

At the beginning of 1997 Michael travelled to Hong Kong to study in Grandmaster Leung Ting’s International Wing Tsun Headquarters where he took part in the classes run by Master Cheng Chuen Fun for just under three months. >> CONTINUED

Nicolas Maraite was born in the German speaking community in Belgium in 1975.
He started training martial arts at the age of 12 when he enrolled in a Shotokan-Karatedo Club. After 5 years he changed to Hapkido for one year.

In 1992 he discovered WingTsun for the first time, but could not attend regular classes as there were no clubs in his area, so he started to learn from a friend and 12 th SG in both WT and Eskrima, who lived in Germany at the time.
In 1993 he enrolled in the University of Louvain La Neuve and studied Germanic Philology for the next 5 years.
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