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Wing Chun Illustrated Issue 42 featuring Sifu Markus Schinhammer

Issue No. 42 featuring Sifu Markus Schinhammer now available as PRINT and DOWNLOAD.

Sifu Markus Schinhammer started his martial arts journey when he was five years old, training in Karate, Taekwondo, and Judo. He began training Escrima and Wing Tsun in the Leung Ting lineage simultaneously at age 13.

For the past four years, he has learned Ip Man Wing Chun as a private student of Grandmaster Samuel Kwok and is a recognised Sifu under the Samuel Kwok Wing Chun Martial Arts Association and Ip Man Wing Chun Germany.

Sifu Schinhammer is a recognised Master of Martial Arts Ip Man Wing Chun Germany by the World Wide Martial Arts Council, as well as a recognised “Master of the Year 2015” by the Munich Hall of Honours for Martial Artists. In 2016, he received a “Lifetime Achievement 35+” award from the Suisse Hall of Honour.

In this in-depth interview, he shares his views about the swap from the Leung Ting lineage for Samuel Kwok’s, which taught him many things about real fighting, form training, body mechanics and structure, Chi Sau, and lots more.