Personal Development through Martial Arts Podcast

The podcast where the world's highest Personal Development experts and Martial Arts masters come together to empower and inspire you to become your strongest self and live the life that you truly want. Join host Bogdan Rosu, author, public speaker and the founder of the first Personal Development through Martial Arts School in the world in the Podcast where You become the HERO!

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Episodes

Episode 13 - Sifu Wong Kar Wei On Teaching Wing Chun In Corporations And To Children

Sifu Wong has been taking the plunge to venture deep into the beautiful art of Wing Chun, since year 2009. He has successfully helped organizations to create more engagement within a company such as UOB, DHL, Asiaflex, Kevokanvas, though his employee engagement programme. At the same time, he also helped school children to perform better at school by fostering more discipline and focus at school, through his student engagement programme. The attendance rate in the school has increased to 98.8%...

Apr 24, 2017•32 min

Episode 12 - Sifu Chris Collins on Wing Tsun As a Smart Approach To Self-Defense

Chris Collins is a martial arts expert, fire arms expert, fight/action choreographer. He has trained in various fighting systems like western boxing and greco-roman wrestling to WingTsun, Jujitsu and Kali. And he has an upcoming movie, called 'Paradox' costarring with Tony Jaa, and with none other than Sammy Hung directing the action. It was great to find out how a boxer and wrestler would appreciate Wing Tsun for its out of the box approach to self-defense. I really enjoyed the story where Sifu...

Apr 16, 2017•43 min

Episode 11 - Sifu Dwight Hennings About Harnessing The Internal Fire

Sifu Dwight Hennings is the creator of the S3VT : System / Science / Skills Ving Tsun , WSLVT of Toronto, Canada. He is a regular contributor to the Wing Chun Illustrated Magazine and the organizer and presenter of the WSLVTNA 2017 (Wong Shun Leung Ving Tsun North America) Event taking place from Fri., September 1st to Sun. September 3rd 2017 in Los Angeles, California. He used to train Tae Kwon Do, before meeting his Sifu by accident. Once he understood the effectiveness and simplicity of Ving ...

Apr 09, 2017•51 min

Episode 10 - Sifu Jack Leung And The Journey To Practicality

Jack Leung serves as the Regional Director for Wan Kam Leung Practical Wing Chun Kungfu in Australia. Since 1996, he has learnt the entire system directly from Grand Master Wan Kam Leung, in Hong Kong. In 2013, he achieved his full instructor certificates and started teaching. He now runs 5 branches in Queensland, teaching 7 days a week just like his Sifu. I enjoyed listening to Sifu Leung's story of how he started out with Wing Chun despite the fact that he had been training karate for years, a...

Apr 03, 2017•46 min

Episode 9 - Sifu John Smith And The Essence of Being Simple, Direct And Efficient

Sifu John Smith has been learning the Ving Tsun system since 1985. It was not until 1989 that John had the chance to do some training with David Peterson in Melbourne, whom John regards as the most knowledgeable foreign student to pass on the Wong Shun Leung method of Ving Tsun Gung Fu as mentioned by Wong Shun Leung himself. It was in 1991 John Smith ventured to Hong Kong, and trained under, whom John believes to be the undisputed master teacher of the Ving Tsun system, the late "Wong Shun Leun...

Mar 26, 2017•28 min

Episode 8 - Sifu David Peterson And The Legacy of Wong Shun Leung 'The King Of Talking Hands'

Sifu David Peterson has been training in the Chinese martial arts since 1973. He became a student of Sifu Wong Shun Leung, who was Ip Man's most famous student and Bruce Lee's mentor, after travelling to Hong Kong in 1983. Peterson is one of only two fully qualified instructors of Wong's system in Australia actually certified and authorised by Sifu Wong personally. I remember reading Sifu Peterson's book: 'Look Beyond the Pointing Finger: The Combat Philosophy of Wong Shun Leung' while working t...

Mar 19, 2017•40 min

Episode 7 – Sifu Kleber Battaglia On Being a Foreign Sifu In China

Sifu Kleber Battaglia is a teacher of Practical Wing Chun in Shanghai, China. He is also a collumnist for Wing Chun Illustrated Magazine and a Wing Chun historian. I've known Sifu Kleber for several years, but this was the first time we got a chance to sit down and chat and I am so happy we did. I was surprised to learn that he had extensive martial arts training prior to Practical Wing Chun and that he instantly knew upon meeting Sifu Wan Kam Leung that this was the expression of Wing Chun that...

Mar 12, 2017•45 min

Episode 6 – Adam Chan On How To Make Wing Chun Even More Practical

This episode features Adam Chan from PragmaticMartialArts.com . You might know him from his YouTube videos where he shows a very down to earth approach to Wing Chun and self-defense. I found Adam's approach to be unique in the sense that he tests every concept before even talking about it. One of the key elements that I got from talking to Adam, was that each of us need to be honest with ourselves and decide why we are doing Wing Chun. If you are doing Wing Chun for fun or for the health benefit...

Mar 06, 2017•32 min

Episode 5 - Alex Richter And How Wing Chun Improves With Every Generation

Sifu Alex Richter is a martial arts fanatic who authored the critically-acclaimed 'The Little Idea' and also co-hosts the Dudes of Kung Fu podcast . In just a few short years he went from teaching at rented dance studios to developing the biggest Wing Tsun center in NYC. His intense expertise first gained worldwide exposure through his popular Wing Chun series on HowCast.com. Sifu Alex has been featured on VICE, The Discovery Channel, NBC, PBS, Black Belt Magazine, Kung Fu/Taichi Magazine, Wing ...

Feb 26, 2017•49 min

Episode 4 - Thommy Boehlig About Teaching Online And Offline

Sifu Thommy Boehlig is the founder of BDS Wing Tsjun International one of the largest Wing Tsjun organisations in the world, which also provides online training for their students with more than 700 users. He has extensive experience teaching martial arts and self-defense to the police forces in Germany, Sri Lanka, and Brazil. He was kind enough to share how he took his school from a small group to having one of the most successful martial arts organisations in the world, some stories about when...

Feb 20, 2017•39 min

Episode 3 - Jim Roselando and the History of Wing Chun

Jim Roselando is a Wing Chun Illustrated Columnist and Noted Wing Chun Researcher and Historian, he is also the Founder/Instructor at Gulao Boxing Association, a Master at Sifu Mui's Martial Art Association, MIT Qigong Club, Harvard Qigong Club, and an Instructor at the Brazilian Martial Art Center Boston. I got a chance to ask Jim, from a historical point of view, about the accuracy of the story/lengend of Wing Chun being created by a woman. His answer brought new perspective to my understandin...

Feb 12, 2017•36 min

Episode 2 - Nima King And Mindfulness in Wing Chun

Nima King started practicing Wing Chun in Australia in Sifu Jim Fung’s Wing Chun Academy in 1998. He came to Hong Kong in 2005 to continue his practice with Jim Fung’s master, Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin and continued to train under him fulltime for 9 years before he passed away in 2014. Out of all the non-chinese disciples of Grandmaster Chu in the past 60 years, Nima has spent the most amount of hours training under him. Even after his passing away, Nima still trains at Chu Shong Tin’s school an...

Jan 29, 2017•37 min

Episode 1 - Sifu Mark Phillips

Dr. Mark Phillips began his study of Wing Chun in 1986 under Master James Sinclair. Now after twenty seven years of professional teaching, he is ranked as one of the leading instructors in the UK Wing Chun Assoc and is a registered instructor with the prestigious ‘Ving Tsun Athletic Association’ in Hong Kong as so. I really enjoyied talking with Sifu Mark Phillips and listening to his point of view regarding Wing Chun. We talked about using Wing Chun in challenge fights, teaching, overcoming pla...

Jan 28, 2017•41 min

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