Dublin City Center School - WingTsun and Escrima in Ireland and Northern Ireland

About us

Sifu Aidan Canavan has been practising Wing Tsun for over 20 years. He has trained in China, England, Ireland and Germany and has been teaching for almost 20 years as well in different locations in Dublin.

With enthusiasm he has become the representative for Dai-Sifu Rainer Tausend for Ireland over the last years.

If you wish to know about Sifu Aidan’s Martial Arts history, please have a look at the historic section in the Gallery.

Sifu Aidan was awarded his 4th TG in Wing Tsun in December 2006 by Sigung Keith Kernspecht in London. Sifu Aidan also holds the 5th Student Grade in Newman Escrima.

Sifu Aidan teaches in the Dublin City Centre Club, but also gives grading seminars in the other clubs of the IEWTO.

Sihing Nicolas Maraite

Nicolas Maraite was born in the German speaking community in Belgium in 1975.

He started training martial arts at the age of 12 when he enrolled in a Shotokan-Karatedo Club. After 5 years he changed to Hapkido for one year.

In 1992 he discovered WingTsun for the first time, but could not attend regular classes as there were no clubs in his area.

In 1993 he enrolled in the University of Louvain La Neuve and studied Germanic Philology for the next 5 years. Since starting university, Nicolas has kept training a number of different martial Arts.

Despite looking around he always returned to learn WingTsun and Eskrima a friend who lived in Germany.

During his Erasmus exchange with Trinity College Dublin in 1996/97, he first met Sifu Aidan Canavan.

He returned home and continued training across several martial arts. He graduated In English and German Literature and Linguistics in summer ’98. Work commitments prevented him from training regularly until he moved to Dublin in January 2000.

Since February 2000, Nicolas has been a student of Sifu Aidan Canavan and after becoming assistant instructor in 2004 was permitted by his Sifu and encouraged by his Sihing Michael O’Leary to attend private classes with Dai-Sifu Rainer Tausend both in Dublin and Germany as part of the “Irish contingent” and was awarded the 1st TG by Dai-Sifu Rainer Tausend in November 2006 and the 2nd TG in November 2008.

Nicolas has also been studying Newman-Escrima under Sifu Stefan Weber and presently holds the 7th SG.