Sifu John Agar
Name: John Agar
Date of Birth: 19/12/1955
Date of Birth: Married with two children
Occupation: Professional Martial Arts
Instructor
Years Training: 40
Main Style: Wing Chun
Other Styles Practiced:
Wado-Ryu Karate, Aikido, Shaolin
Kung Fu, Police Arrest Techniques i.e. Locking and Throwing. John has also
trained privately in the Choy Lee Fut system of Kung Fu under Gordon Wilson, the
1995 overall British Kung Fu Champion.
Weapon Skills:
Wing Chun Long Pole and Butterfly Knives,
Shaolin Pole, Nunchaku, Philippine Escrima stick and knife techniques and
various weapons used in the Choy Lee Fut system. Chinese Broad sword
Instructors:
Ron Balsam in Wado-Ryu Karate, Lee and Beryl
Crow in Aikido, Sifu's Alan Lamb and Alick Au in Wing Chun, Gordon Wilson in
Choy Lee Fut.
Achievements
1980
In July, after a full day's assessment at the British wing chun headquarters
in Preston, under the associations chief instructor Sifu John Darwen, Sifu's
John and Alan agar were given the honour of being chosen to be the officially
approved instructors for the B.W.C.A. for the North East of England.
At the end of September john and Alan were chosen by Sifu Alan lamb on his
return from the U.S.A. to help him with an eight week intensive course in wing
chun kung fu, long pole training and the Philippine martial art of Escrima. John
and Alan took full advantage of Sifu lamb's return to the UK by training with
him several hours each day, most days of the week until his return to the
U.S.A.
1988
Sifu john agar won first place in the men's advanced Kata/forms division in
the 1988 Sukodo Karate championships for his Shaolin forms Tun-da and
Moi-fa.
1992
Sifu john agar was accepted for membership within the yip man martial arts
association, Hong Kong.
1996
Sifu john agar was awarded the rank of 5th degree black sash by the amateur
martial arts association, London.
1997
A team of wing chun students from the john agar school of self defence took
part in the prestigious UK internal arts competition held in Newcastle upon
Tyne, which was hosted by Sifu Peter Yeung. The competition attracted students
and kung fu masters from Hong Kong, France, Sweden, Greece and the U.S.A.
Sifu john agar's students won all the wing chun events they entered and
brought home all the gold medals.
1999
Sifu john agar was accepted for membership within the national register of
martial arts instructors, and the Ving Tsun athletic association in Hong
Kong.
In June 1999 Sifu John Agar made a life changing decision to take voluntary
redundancy from his job of twenty three years as a machine operator at the Royal
Ordinance factory in Birtley, to become a full time professional martial arts
instructor.
Six years since that decision, Sifu John Agar has built up a
number of successful Wing Chun Schools throughout the area, all of which have
produced a total of six new Black sash students, Sharon Breadin, John McNulty,
Matt and James Laing, Nigel Pilmore and Paul Allison.
Sifu John Agar is also in demand to give one on one private lessons and has
been approached on several occasions to teach privately a number of the
professional football players and staff from the premiership football club,
Sunderland A.F.C john has taught stefan schwartz ,Matt piper , David Bellion ,
Kevin Ball and Stan Varga (See Photos Page)
2008
New Venture this year starting to produce a number of wing chun kung fu
instructional videos from beginner to advanced level , I am hoping to have my
first three videos up and running by May ? once I have my new Internet shop open
and selling my down loadable videos on line i can then concentrate on adding
further videos , I just need to get every thing set up first of all
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www.martialartsinstructionalvideos.co.uk
present day !
Gained a three year first Aid Certificate , been C.R.B. checked and approved , took part in a live local radio
show with over 7000 listener's talking about and promoting the Art of Wing Chun .
WING CHUN KUNG FU SIU-LIM-TAU VIDEO NUMBER FOUR REVIEW