Wolumla kung fu and Brazilian jiu jitsu expert Maurice Llewellyn said he was a bit “wild” in his youth and now hopes to give back to the community.
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Llewellyn has over 30 years experience as a personal trainer and martial artist and has combined the two into a lifestyle and business he’s dubbed Wing Chun Fitness and will share those skills with kids at a Police Citizen’s Youth Club (PCYC).
“When I moved here back in 2009 I had heard there was a PCYC and I wanted to help, I just kind of wanted to give that back,” Llewellyn said.
“I’ve always wanted to have a place to give back to the kids after I was a bit wild in my youth and knowing now what martial arts has given me.”
Llewellyn said he joined the military when he was young and gained his personal training qualifications so discipline had never been a far stretch, but martial arts offered focus, self-control, understanding and respect.
”it's all about the focus, balance, coordination and moral ethics, for me it was all about that lifestyle,” he said.
“As a kid I loved those movies where you would see the wise old master on the hill who could beat up anybody on the block, it keeps you young and learning, you’re always learning and striving for perfection.”
He trained under Sifu Rick Spain in Sydney in the late 1980s and gained his own Wing Chun teaching accreditation.
“My instructor is a really good role model and Wing Chun is really a lifestyle, that inspired and I want to make a difference in someone's life.”
He hopes the PCYC launch in Bega could be that opportunity.
The dual citizen of Australia and America is accustomed to combining two ways of life, but said it was personal training in New York that sparked the idea to mix his training with jiu jitsu and kung fu.
He was working with a large firm’s vice-president of advertising when the idea came about.
“he was helping people develop their own business and had never trained Martial arts and so I incorporated it into his program,” Llewellyn said.
“To train in New York you have to have a niche so that became my thing and I started running it and branded as my own now."
However, Llewellyn said he felt more at home in Australia now and was happy to make the move south from Sydney where he continues to teach his combined form.
Llewellyn runs personal training courses, as well as mixed martial arts and conditioning courses Mondays through Saturdays that are open to all.
For more information on classes, contact Maurice Llewellyn of Wing Chun Fitness on 0430 404 305.