Eddie Walsh has been teaching Fujian White Crane Kung Fu and Suang Yang Tai Chi in Dubin for over 5 years. The classes range from kids kung fu, Adults kung fu classes and tai chi classes to sparring classes.

He started his training in London under Instructor Dave Courtney Jones in X but later moved to train under Chief Instructor Dennis Ngo when he wanted to commit to becoming an instructor. He trained everyday for over 2 years, an hour in the morning and three hours in the evening. Saturdays were spent in Master Ngo?s house training outdoors and Sundays training with the rest of the instructors. Master Ngo has high standards!! All this while holding down his Head of IT Position with an online business-to-business publisher in the News and Entertainment industry.

Once he passed his Assistant Instructor grading and completed his Diploma in Anatomy and Physiology, Eddie moved back to Dublin to start his own club. This took 2 years of hard work to get his club up to a level where he could pass his full instructor grading. During this time, he commuted weekly to the UK to both work and keep up his training and also passed his first Dan grading with the Chinese Wushu Association. He has been full time in Dublin for the last 4 years.

Eddie has travelled to China on a number of occasions and has trained in Wudang Tai Chi, Natural Boxing, Zing Yi and Yong Chun White Crane. These experiences have been an incredible journey of learning and insight and enabled him to better understand FWC Kung Fu and Suang Yang Tai Chi.

The level of expertise and professionalism in FWC is immense with the instructors training together every week. The bond between instructors is very strong and the bond between instructors and Master Ngo is one of a closeness that few other clubs can brag about.

Teaching martial arts may seem to be a simple idea however, teaching people of different levels from different backgrounds, different sexes and differing ways of learning makes it quite a challenge. To be able to say that you?ve learned from the best is to be able to say that you?ve experienced being touched personally by your instructor while in the middle of a large class ? this is my aim. To be able to teach and reach people as Master Ngo does is an ideal that always in the back of my mind.

?To challenge each person to be a little better today than their last class, to get people to understand filial piety and to elucidate Chinese culture and to make sure that Fujian White Crane Kung Fu and Suang Yang Tai Chi continues after I?m gone. If you understand the significance of you being on this planet, the sacrifices that your ancestors have made just for you to have a life ? how can you not push yourself to the max. How can you not take on a way to maximise your potential as a human being. That?s what I found when I started training and now I keep that idea alive through my classes.? Eddie Walsh, FWC Instructor.