About Shifu Yan Xin

Ever since Shifu Yan Xin was a little boy, he had a dream to become a great martial artist, he had so much energy, he was the 'naughty' boy in his village, he was fighting with friends all the time, jumping off walls pretending he was a ninja, he constantly pestered his parents to send him to the Shaolin Temple to train martial arts, his parents said to him at the time; " do you know how hard it is to train kung fu, are you willing to put up with the hardship? are you afraid? are you prepared to be away from home for the long term?" The young shifu answered without hesitation at the time "no, I'm not afraid, I want to go." His parents finally gave in and sent him to a kung fu school (Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School) near the Shaolin Temple. Luckily, after few years of training at the school, as one of the top few performing students, Shifu Yan Xin was privileged enough to be selected to go into the Shaolin Temple, he then became a 34th Generation Shaolin Warrior Disciple.  

Shifu Yan Xin first began teaching martial arts at the Shaolin Temple where he was proud to pass on his knowledge to the younger generation monks. In 1999 and 2000 Shifu Yan Xin was honoured to act as the team leader and led a troupe of Shaolin Monks to perform in the Shaolin Wheel of Life world Tour. During these two years Master Yan Xin enjoyed promoting Shaolin Culture and kung fu to worldwide audiences. In 2001 Shifu Yan Xin started to teach students in England, where shared his knowledge and skill to students in Bournemouth, Southampton, Bristol and London. Now Shifu Yan Xin resides in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland with his family and continues with his passion for kung fu teaching. 

From a lifetime of dedication to the training and teaching of kung fu, Shifu Yan Xin has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and skill in the art of traditional kung fu. Shifu Yan Xin would love to share his in insight about kung fu and life with the world, not only training kung fu is a great skill to have, also it build good foundations for life, such as good foundation for health, energy, joy; furthermore you're building great qualities into your character like discipline, resilience, focus, calmness and confidence to name a few, and these are great qualities to have in our every day lives.