The Teachers
Sifu Saar Avivi started training Krav Maga at the age of nine. He trained for eight years until he had to go into the army. There he got to use the self-defense skills in conflicted areas. After he left the army he started practicing and teaching Tai Chi Chuan.
These days he is practicing Yang Style TCC, Wudang PTCC with Paul Silverstråle and Baguazhang with Luigi Zanini.
Saar won a gold medal in the Swedish Open 2007 and silver in the European championship 2008, where he was also a judge.
Today he lives in Sweden, teaching Tai Chi, self-defense and zen-meditation. www.avivi.se
Workshop: Yang Style Tuishou & Practical Applications
Sifu Dzhamal Azhigirey started his sports career from learning freestyle Wrestli ng , Judo and Karate. He has practiced Wushu since 1986 and was a member of the Russ i an W ushu select team from 1991 to 1999. International Master of Sport and Wushu Tr ai n er of high quality; Multifold winner of International Wushu Championships.
In the middle of the nineties he started to practice Tai Chi and in 2000 founded The School of Martial Arts of Dzhamal Azhigirey.
The team of The School became medalists in the Tai Chi European Championships in 2004, 2006, 2008 and many Russian Championships.
Artist, Actor.
Teaches: Yang style, Pushing hand, Weapons
Workshop: Application of 8 types of Energy in Taijiquan
陈汝庆 - Sifu Chen Ruqing
Born in Shanghai, China. Master of traditional Chinese wushu.
Wushu 7th grade (duan) holder.
· President Of Saint Petersburg Institute Of Chinese Wushu
· Chairman of JuWuTang Sports Development (Shanghai) Co. Ltd
· Secretary of Song Style Xingyi Quan International Association
More than 49 years Wushu practical experience. Strong in:
- Yang Style TJQ (linage: Yang Chengfu -> Fu Zhongwen -> Shao Shankang -> Chen Ruqing)
- Sun Style TJQ (linage: Sun Lutang -> Sun Cunzhou -> Xiu Wenzhong -> Chen Ruqing)
- Shanxi Branch Song Style Xingyi Quan, Xingyi Taiji Quan (linage: Song Shirong -> Song Tielin -> Song Guanghua -> Chen Ruqing)
- Bagua Taiji Quan (linage: Liu Dekuan -> Wu Junshan -> He Fusheng -> Chen Ruqing)
Also has solid experience in Cheng Style Bagua Zhang, Jiu Gong Bagua Zhuan Zhang, Xingyi Liuhe Quan, Yang Style Small Frame TJQ, many kinds of weapons, combat techniques, Qinna. He is an author of two wushu books (in Chinese).
Workshop: Old Yang Style Small Frame (Xiao Jia) Taiji Quan (Yang Shaohou transmission line): fundamentals and actual combat applications
Sifu Severino Maistrello has studied martial arts since 1973 and teaching for over 25 years. He is inside student of Sifu To Yu disciple of Fu Cheng Song and studied Fu Style Tai Chi and Pa Kua. He founded the Wudang Fu style Federation where he ser ves as head instructor. He has published a number of articles on tai chi chuan , On Zon Su (Taoist massage) and two DVD’s. Is chairmain of the Hong Kong Northern and the Southern Martial Arts Association and member of World Kung Fu Master Association. He is also a member of the TCFE.
His syllabus includes Fu Style Tai Chi Chuan, Fu Style Tai Chi Push Hand, F u Style Tai Chi Sword, Fu Style Tai Chi Broadsword, Fu Style Tai Chi Spear, Fu Style Tai Chi Staff, Fu Style Tai Chi Lighthing Palm, Leung Yee Chuan, Pa Kua Dragon Palm, Pa Kua Dragon Palm Push Hand, Pa Kua Yin & Yang Palm, Orthodox Pa Kua, Large Broadsword, Pa Kua Flying Dragon Sword, Pa Kua Four Direction Spear, Pa Kua Swirling Broadsword . www.wudang.it
Workshop: Pa Kua Circle Walking and the Relationship between Tai chi and Pa kua
It’s consists of pa kua chi kung and the study of Yin Pa kua and this form is very interesting for the practitioners of tai chi because this form contains the tai chi and pa kua essence. This is a characteristic form of the Tan Pai school and I think that this is very interesting.
For all levels.
Sifu Othmar Vigl started practicing Tai Chi Chuan with Dan Docherty in 1999. Dan Docherty accepted Othmar as an inside the door student in 2001. He is the founder of the Eight Forces Five Steps Tai Chi Chuan Academy and works fulltime as a teacher of Tai Chi Chuan in Italy, Austria and Germany. Othmar took part in several national and international Tai Chi Chuan competitions and won numerous pushing hands, hand forms as well as san shou events.
Workshop: In this workshop we shall look at some Tai Chi Chuan self-defence applications and their variations. Different situations need different ways of responding. Important principles we need to analyse in order to use self-defence applications effectively are:
· Position
· Timing
· Distance
Each technique can be used in more than one way, any techniques can be combined with others, and self-defence applications can be used to follow up others. This in turn leaves Tai Chi Chuan practitioners with a wide range of possible techniques to defend an attack.
Sifu Richard Watson, Chairman of Longfei Taijiquan Association of Great Britain, has taken an active interest in martial arts since 1949. He began training in Taijiquan in 1973, at the Liu Academy based in the Renshuden Judo Club. In 1974 he met and began training with Master Chu King Hung of the International Tai Chi Chuan Association. The association was to last until 1992. In 1978 he was initiated into the tradition and elected senior student. With Master Chu, the training was in Traditional Yang Long Form, Taijijian (Sword), Taiji Dao (Sabre), Tui Shou, Da Lu and Qigong.
Richard first met Professor Li Deyin at the People's University in 1988 and has been training with him since that time both in Great Britain and at the People's University, Beijing. He studies with Professor Li include 24 simplified Taijiquan, 32 Jian (Sword), 42 Combined Competition Form, 42 Combined Competition Jian (Sword) and the 88 Standardised Yang Style Taijiquan. His further studies have been in Wu Style, Sun Style and Hao Style and has taken him to China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has acted for the British Council for Chinese Martial Arts in the capacity of manager and team leader of the British Wushu Team during the 1994 European Wushu Championships in Germany and also at the 1995 and 1997 World Wushu Championships in the USA and Italy.
Sifu Simon Watson is Senior Technical Advisor to Longfei Taijiquan Ass
ociation of Great Britain. He began his training 35 years ago with his father Richard W atson. Since the formation of Longfei in 1991 he has trained extensively with his father, Professor Li De Yin and Master Wang Yanji. He has had a successful career in British Taiji competition and has been team captain to the British Wushu Team for both the European and World Wushu Championships. Simon has since become a 1st generation disciple of Li De Yin
Workshop: Teaching Taiji Partner Drills and Push Hands
Sifu Gary Wragg is one of the foremost exponents of Tai Chi Ch'uan in the UK and Europe. His club in Bethnal Green, east London, is the original Wu's Tai Chi Academy for the UK and Europe, and he is the senior representative in Europe of the Wu Family.
He is a founder member and former chairman of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain, and is currently an Executive Committee and Technical Panel member of the Union. He is also on the executive committee of the International Federation of Wu's Style Tai Chi Ch'uan.
Gary Wragg has been a medalist in numerous competitions in the UK, Europe,
North America and China. Many of his students have also been national and international Tai Chi Chuan champions. He teaches in Great Britain and abroad, and has an international reputation for his demonstrations, workshops, and Tai Chi skills.
His aim in running the Academy is to teach members and novices according to the principles laid down in the Tai Chi Classics, and to the high standards required by the Wu family. Gary Wragg is also an artist who exhibits regularly.
Workshop: Sabre
Sifu Faye Yip born in a traditional Chinese martial arts family and started her mar ti al arts journey from six years old, is a long term promoter and teacher of Chinese Internal martial Arts including Tai Chi Chuan, Xing Yi and Qigong. Faye is many times gold medallist holder in China in her athletic days and she travels regularly in the UK and Europe now to give workshops and seminars on varies aspect of Tai Chi (including Fan, Sword & Sabre), and Qigong. She is currently serving as Chinese Liaison Officer of Tai Chi Union for Great Britain as well as the founder of British Health Qigong Association.
Workshop
She will be teaching a Qigong session aiming to explore the physical and psychological benefits of Health Qigong. The session is open to all levels, no previous experience is needed.