Stanislav Bagalev, invited guest, Taiji & Qigong, Wing Chun

Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Organization, Sofia Bulgaria

Master of WingTsun, 6th degree (EWTO)
Master of Tai Chi, 4th Duan (Yang Family Taichichuan Organization)

Born in 1972 in Sofia.

1982 Started to train martial arts under Krasimir Dimitrov (The Chinese).
1991 Became a teacher of Chinese martial arts at the state Plovdiv University.
1996 Founder of EWTO-Bulgaria, as a branch of the largest WingTsun organization in the world, EWTO, with over 1,500 schools, and became a student of Grandmaster Kernspecht, 10th Level.
1996 Graduated as Master of Bulgarian Philology.
1997 Trainer for the 2nd Army Martial Arts, while serving.
2004 Became part of the World Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Organization and a student of the successor, Grandmaster Yang Jun.
2018 Becomes 3rd in the World Tai Chi Championships in Burgas.
2020 Coach of the Wushu national team in Wing Chun, Tai Chi and Pushing Hands
2021 Completes specialization in National Sport Academy in Sofia - WuShu coach
2022 Establishes four Wushu clubs in the country under his leadership. Competitors won numerous medals at national and European championships. A specialty at the National Sports Academy in Sofia - Bachelor of Wushu is also created.
2023 Organizes several international seminars with Grandmaster Yang Jun in Bulgaria

2023 Creator of a concept for Self Defense seminars for women

Over the years, opens schools in all over Bulgaria - Ruse, Varna, Dobrich, Burgas, Svilengrad, Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Karlovo, Stara Zagora, Plovdiv, Vidin, Montana, Plovdiv and Sofia.

He writes articles, interviews in national radio networks, private TV stations also realize series of shows related to self-defense, national media invite representatives of the organization in their shows, and some of the stars of contemporary music began to train WingTsun self-defense.

He has traveled throughout Europe for various seminars, and has been to China six times for seminars and a visit to Shaolin.

He is the publisher and editor of Grandmaster Kernspecht's book „On the singe combat “, which is a world bestseller on self-defense.

He has been featured in instructional films on television and has released four instructional DVDs on WingTsun and instructional films on Tai Chi.

Markus Maria Wagner, invited guest, Taiji & Qigong

Taiji Akademie, Marburg Germany

Markus Maria Wagner M.A. studied German Language and Literature, Philosophy and Religious Sciences in Marburg/Germany. 

He started doing Wu Style Taijiquan (Cheng Wing Kwong Lineage) in 1997 and Yang Style (Yang Sau Chung Lineage) in 2010, besides having studied Xingyiquan, Qigong, ZiFaGong and Tibetan Buddhist Meditation for several years. He considers as his most imprtant  teachers Dr. Gerald Hofer, Prof Lau, Waishing and Won Gim.

He is board member of the German Association of Taijiquan and Qigong https://www.taijiquan-qigong.de/ and has about 15 years of Teaching Experience www.taiji-akademie.de . 

He contributed a bunch of Articles in several Taijiquan-related magazines and scientific Books and wrote a book on Taijiquan's Relations to Daoism (in German).

Topics of his academic Interest include Mysticism, Interreligious Dialogue, early Wittgenstein, Epistemology and Philosophy of Language. 

Tina Tsamoutalidi, invited Guest, Chen Taichi Chuan, Shaolin Kung Fu & Qigong,

A.S Shaolin Kung Fu Paianias "MANTIS" , Shaolin Cultural Center Paiania Greece 

Tina Tsamoutalidi was born in Athens, Greece in 1979. She graduated in Mass Media Communication in 2000 and worked in various print and digital media.

During this time, she met the teacher Shi Yan Zhuo and began studying Shaolin Kung Fu and Qi Gong.

After ten years of practice,  she visited the Shaolin Temple for the first time in June 2010.
In November 2013, she founded the Shaolin Cultural Center of Paiania and in March 2015 established the A.S Shaolin Kung Fu Paianias "MANTIS" where she teaches Shaolin Kung Fu, various types of Qi Gong, and Chen Tai Ji Quan until today.

In July 2015, she returned to China to take exams at the Luoyang State People's Wushu Academy in the Shaolin Martial Arts Department. There she was examined in all categories, including short and long weapons, presentation and technical training of traditional Shaolin skills, fighting techniques and specialised knowledge. As a result, she was qualified to teach in this field.
At the same time, with the traditional ceremony inside the Shaolin Temple, she is accepted as a disciple of Venerable Shi Yong-Xin.  She is registered in the Shaolin Temple's Registry with the genealogical name Shi Yan Ni [shìyání 释延尼].

On March 23, 2016, she was certified as a Shaolin Quan Teacher by the Changchun Martial Arts and Culture Research Center and the Changchun Social and Sports Instructors Association.
On May 29, 2016, she was granted by the President of the Hellenic Wu Shu Kung Fu Federation the diploma of the 4th Duan

In 2018 she decided to deepen her understanding of the art of Chen Tai Ji Quan. To this end, she visited Chen Village, and began daily classes at the school of master Wang Jang Guo.

 In the same year, she revisited the Shaolin Temple, where under the guidance of Shifu Shi Yan Ding she continued her Shaolin training, enriching her knowledge.

In 2020, she began studying Dao Yin Yangsheng Gong - a qigong therapeutic system - with teacher Panagiotis Derventis and personal student of the system's founder, Zhang Guangde. Since then, she has completed the first-level course and received her first teaching certificate in Dao Yin and continues learning to this day.

In 2023, she successfully passed the Wushu Kung Fu Coaching School exams, organised by the Wushu Kung Fu Federation of Greece in cooperation with the General Secretariat of Sports. She obtained a wushu (taolu-sanda) degree in the C category.

She has participated several times in competitions in Greece and abroad, including the 1st and 2nd European Shaolin Culture Festival in Berlin and London respectively, receiving several awards.

Konstantinos Athanasiou, invited guest, Wushu - Kung Fu

Acharne Chinese Traditional Martial Arts, Athens Greece

Pasrawushu Greece

Kostas is a Wushu - Kung Fu coach with specialization (university education EKPA, PANTEO) in integration and inclusion of people with disabilities (neurodevelopmental, sensory and targeted educational needs). 

Together with his team (psychologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist), he founded the Acharne Chinese Traditional Martial Arts Sports Association (acharneskungfu.com) and the training structure from day one was inclusive so that no person was excluded from the training process, always using differentiation and appropriate adjustments and adapted training programs. 

He is the head coach (5-member team of coaches) in the club since 2011. 

Also responsible for the above disorders and co-founder of the organization of Parawushu Greece (parawushu.gr) section since 2016 which partially belongs (competitive level) to the relevant federation of our sport ( Hellenic Wushu Kung Fu Federation). 

Since 2014 he is a member of the Panhellenic association of people with ADHD (https://www.adhdhellas.org/) and since 2016 a member of the Board. 

He is diagnosed as an adult with ADHD and Dyslexia. 

He is married since 2005 to Maria - Eleni Kalogiannidou and has a son - Orestes - and a daughter Sofia.

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Konstantinos Moukas, invited guest , Taiji & Qi gong

Martial Art Sports Club Mahitiki Akadimia Platonos , Athens

Parawushu, Athens Greece

Konstantinos Moukas was born in 1971 in Athens. In 1996 he graduated from the Athens School of Philosophy 

In 2001 he was in a car accident. Almost a year later, as a wheelchair user / paraplegic (θ7), initially for rehabilitation reasons, Kostas started playing wheelchair basketball and until 2015 he was an active member of the Marousi wheelchair basketball team. 

In 2002-3 he came in contact with his teacher in traditional Wushu Dimitris Doukas and started training at A.S.Kerameikos.Through the exercise, Kung Fu helped him complete his rehabilitation and gain terms of full autonomy.

Training styles: Chinese traditional styles Ying Zhao Fan Zi Men (Eagle Claw), Nei Jia Quan (Inner Fist-Xing Yi, Ba Gua, Tai Ji), Shuai Jiao (Chinese Wrestling) and Sanda. He practiced meditation and qigong.

He has attended seminars with Lily Lau in eagle, Niu Sheng Xian in inner fist, Liu Zu Guang in Chinese wrestling, Lars J.E.Larsen in relaxation exercises and many others.

He is in open contact with teachers in Greece and abroad, studying various styles and actively following the events of Wushu both in practice and theory.

He has participated in many seminars and has taught Wushu and independent living to disabled and non-disabled people. He taught inclusive Wushu at the 2022 coaching school and is in constant contact with institutions and initiatives on Wushu/equalities/independent living/inclusive sport issues.

• 2014 Wushu-Kung Fu Coaching School Wushu (taolu-sanda), C category diploma.

• He started teaching Kung Fu in 2014 

• 2015 he founded his own school, the A.S Mahitiki Akadimia Platonos As a teacher who uses wheelchair, he teaches wushu to disabled and non-disabled people inclusively. All these years he participated in shows and festivals and remains an active athlete.

• Sanda judge of the Hellenic Wushu/Kungfu Federation (HWKF).

• B judge's degree in Sanda and a C judge's degree in Taolu from HWKF.

• He has attended Sanda coaching seminars (all levels) and the seminar with coaches from the World Wushu Federation (Wushu Coaching Seminar 9-11 June 2014) by the HWKF and the majority of the HWKF seminars.

• He has accreditation as a judge from the European Shuai Jiao association and participation in the corresponding seminars and European championship.

• Instructor's degree from the Greek Shuai Jiao association and served as secretary of the association.

• Board of directors - member of the Hellenic Wushu Kung fu Federation.

Co-founder of PARAWUSHU with shifu K.Athanasiou for athletes with disabilities that maintain the right to participate in championships with legitimate scoring and under normal high-level sports competition conditions.

Dimitris Tsolakidis, invited guest, Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan

Flow Taiji Center, Athens Greece

Dimitris Tsolakidis is the 6th Generation of Wu Shi Taijiquan (Wu style Tai Chi), indoor disciple of Master Zhou Zhongfu.

He is the head of the Greek Branch of ‘Taiji Jing Xiu Tang’, Founding Member of ‘Taiji Jing Xiu Tang Union’ and the founder and director of ‘Flow Taiji Center’ in Greece with the purpose of cultivation and dissemination of Tai Chi, Qigong and Chinese culture.

He has the 4th Duan in Tai Chi by the Chinese Wushu Association and he is a Wushu/Kungfu Certified Coach by the General Secretariat of Sports.

In 2018 he won the gold medal in Taiji Sabre, in the 15th World Chin Woo Competition in Yuyao, China. A year earlier he had won the bronze medal in the 7th World Kung Fu Championships in Emeishan. His students also achieving wins in National, European and International Championships.

For the past 12 years he is committed in teaching Tai Chi and Qigong in private and group lessons in Athens, as well as leading workshops and seminars both in Greece and abroad.

Emi Chatzipanagioti, Msc., Yang style Tai Chi Chuan & Qigong,

Tai Chi Chuan Center Yang Sheng Xanthi, Greece 

- Physical Education Teacher, Msc. , Phd (c) 

- certified Tai Chi instructor & coach by the World Tai Chi Chuan Federation, Taiwan (WTCCF), 4th Duan

- certified International Tai Chi Chuan judge (WTCCF Taiwan)

- Participated in the 3rd (2010) and 5th  (2014) World Cup of Tai Chi Chuan in Taipei Taiwan (awards 1 gold medal, 2 silver and 3 bronze in individual and group competitions).

- member of the World Tai Chi Chuan Federation Taiwan

- member of the Tai Chi Chuan Federation e.V, Wuppertal Germany

Started practicing Tai Chi Chuan Yang Style hand forms and weapons in the summer of 2008 in Germany. Her teachers are Luoke Chen, Sonja Blank and Huaxiang Su as well as late Franziska Ruescher.

She teaches Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan, Liu He Ba Fa and Qi Gong. 

She was Manager and teacher of the Ergastiri (School) of Tai Chi Chuan ‘Authentic Yang Style’ of The Progressive Association of Xanthi (FEX) from 2010 till 2022. 

In December 2022 she founded her own school of Tai Chi Chuan - the Tai Chi Chuan Center Yang Sheng Xanthi and is the head teacher and instructor. 

She organizes workshops and lectures in Tai Chi Chuan and sport scientific areas and believes that philosophy and culture are connecting elements that build bridges of mutual understanding between East and West.

Her interest lies in the scientific research in Tai Chi & Qi Gong and is a Phd candidate at the Departm. of P.E.& Sport Science of the Democritus University of Thrace. She is a collaborator of the Laboratory of Rehabilitation where she examines the effects of Tai Chi programs on the functional ability of participants and teaches Tai Chi for graduate and postgraduate P.E. & Sport Science students. She applies an adapted program of Tai Chi Chuan for elderly people and people with chronic diseases and has worked effectively with children and teens in related programs of intervention in primary and secondary schools in Greece and abroad. 

She organizes yearly the International Tai Chi Festival ‘Democritus of Abdera’ in her hometown Xanthi Greece with invited guests from Europe and the Balkans and acts as a co-organizer of The Panhellenic online Symposium for Tai Chi Chuan & Qigong since 2021.

Since 2022 she is the Chairman of the Cultural & Scientific Association 'Lifearts' in Xanthi organizing  actions and venues in philosophy, the arts, theater, dance and wine connoisseurship .