Please note the timetable for classes for the long Easter holiday weekend.

Children’s classes will end on Thursday, 29 March, after which there will be the two-week school holiday break. Classes for them will resume as from Monday, 16 April.

There will be NO class on Friday, 30 March (Good Friday) at our Bentleigh branch, with classes resuming as from Wednesday, 4 April.

There will be class in our Western suburbs branch on Easter Saturday, 31 March, at the Grange Community Centre, Hoppers Crossing. But we will be closed on Easter Monday, 2 April in Werribee. Adult classes in the Western suburbs resume as from Tuesday, 3 April.

We hope that all enjoy a safe and happy Easter weekend!

After a hiatus of a few years, due to their economic crisis and other factors, I returned to Cyprus to help my good friend and student, Sifu Stavros Kypragoras, who runs the Tao of Wing Chun Academy there.

We ran a very successful weekend seminar on the Kwok Fu lineage of Foshan Wing Chun to an enthusiastic bunch of Cypriots, eager to expand their kung fu experience.

Sifu Stavros started with me back in 2012, and more recently has been flying to Athens to see me when I’ve run seminars for my dear friend, Sifu Panagiotis Brebos, who also flew to Cyprus to see me. Another student of mine, Sifu Giorgos Christoulakis of Chania, Crete, also came to join in on the learning and training.

We had a fantastic time boosting the Hellenic branches of our Academy family with this event in Cyprus. Thank you, Sifu Stavros, for making it happen – make good use of the knowledge and training!

See some of the seminar below.

For those of you in the Melbourne CBD, South Melbourne and surrounds who have wished the Academy had something “closer to you”, well, your wishes have now come true!

The Qian Li Dao Academy and I are happy and proud to announce that classes in our Foshan Wing Chun kung fu are now available to you at Resilience Massage & Training, under the guidance of Mr Chris Gauntlett.

Chris has been a student of mine for almost 20 years now and I consider him the best student I have yet produced. He has demonstrated his skills successfully in the full-contact muay thai kickboxing circuit and as a security provider for many Melbourne nightclubs and venues, often dealing with opponents twice his size and weight. Pound for pound, Chris can adequately demonstrate Wing Chun’s principles in both theory and practice.

His skills in security weren’t only with his hands and feet, but also with his ability to communicate. Chris uses that same effective communication now as a personal trainer, masseur and coach of a number of martial arts. His desire to be known as “Chris” and not “Sifu Chris” is just the first gesture that you will see of his goal to be a down-to-earth instructor and trainer, whose goal is to bring out the best in you – a trait we always try to live up to here at the Qian Li Dao Academy.

So, if you can’t make it out to Werribee, do yourself a favour and do the next best thing. Get down to Resilience Massage & Training, 600 City Road, South Melbourne (Google Map link here) and see Chris, or call him on 0416 473 740.

You won’t regret it!!!