Sifu Robin Gamble is a certified Instructor and Chi-Kung therapist under Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit of Malaysia. He has been training in Chi-Kung and Tai Chi Chuan since 2000, and has lived and travelled throughout South East Asia looking for authentic teachers in these arts( including living in China for a year). He has been invited abroad to teach many times and has also competed in combat events on a national and international level.

It has long been an ambition of Robin’s to pass on the arts that he feels have benefited his life so much; the development of the ‘Happy Health Centre’ is a realisation of this ambition. He is happily married and is currently living in Findon, in West Sussex, England.

You can find out why his journey to find a master ended when he met Sifu Wong in the in the intriguing article below. Just click on the link.

Journey to find a master

Grandmaster Wong is the 4th generation successor from the Shaolin Monastery of China. He is a grandmaster of Shaolin Kungfu, Wahnam Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung. He received the "Qigong Master of the Year" award at the Second World Congress on Qigong held in San Francisco in November, 1997. He also holds an honours degree in humanities, and is one of the very few masters who speaks excellent English.

Grandmaster Wong, born in 1944, started his life-long training of the Shaolin arts in 1954 when he began learning Shaolin Kungfu from the famous Shaolin master, Sifu Lai Chin Wah, who was popularly known as Uncle Righteousness. Grandmaster Wong became his best disciple.

To further his kungfu training, Sifu Wong later learnt from Sifu Ho Fatt Nam, the third generation successor directly descended from the southern Shaolin Monastery when it was burned by the Manchurian army in China.

Sifu Wong also learned Wuzu Kungfu from Sifu Chee Kim Thong, and Wing Choon Kungfu from Sifu Choe Hoong Choy, who were patriarchs of their respective kungfu styles.

Sifu Wong has taught kungfu and chi kung for more than twenty five years, to more than twenty organizations. Regretting that many masters were withholding "secrets" of kungfu and chi kung with the result that these arts might lose their essence, in 1982 he founded the Shaolin Wahnam School of kungfu and chi kung, naming the school after the two teachers who had influenced him most, Sifu Lai Chin Wah and Sifu Ho Fatt Nam, with the aim of transmitting genuine Shaolin Kungfu, Shaolin Chi Kung and Shaolin philosophy.

Having won championships himself, Sifu Wong has trained champions in kungfu (demonstrations as well as all styles sparring) and lion dance competitions. But he has always insisted that while Shaolin Kungfu and Wahnam Tai Chi Chuan are exceedingly effective martial arts, their greatness lies in enriching our daily life and in spiritual development.

Since 1987 Sifu Wong has spent more time teaching chi kung than kungfu, because he believes that while kungfu serves as a fascinating hobby, chi kung serves an urgent public need, particularly in overcoming degenerative and chronic illness. Sifu Wong is one of the few masters who have generously introduced the once secretive Shaolin Chi Kung to the public, and has helped literally hundreds of people to be relieved of their so-called "incurable" diseases like hypertension, asthma, rheumatism, arthritis, diabetics, migraine, gastritis, gall stones, kidney failure, depression, anxiety and even cancer.

Now he has devoted more time on writing and teaching overseas, having successfully taught in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. He stresses the Shaolin philosophy of sharing goodness with all humanity, and is now dedicated to spreading the wonders and benefits of the Shaolin arts to more people irrespective of race, culture and religion.

Known also as a prolific author, his books include:

• The Art of Chi Kung
• Chi Kung for Health and Vitality
• Introduction to Shaolin Kungfu
• The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu
• Sukhavati: Western Paradise
• The Shaolin Arts
• The Complete Book of Tai Chi Chuan
• The Complete Book of Zen
• The Complete Book of Shaolin
• The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine

The Art of Chi Kung was a best-seller, reprinted three times within three years, and has been translated into Spanish and German.