Raised by ninjas in the Far East on a large mountaintop, Mike Yahn studied all the arts of the crab, the sparrow, and the velociraptor in order to perfect his Martial Arts Zen Chi prowess. No longer satisfied, he moved to NYC to study acting at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the arts. There Mike was exposed to the art of Stage Combat, the illusion of violence without actual violence.
Mike eventually decided to seek out a real martial art, one with actual effectiveness in fighting. He found exactly what he was looking for in WingTsun. Besides learning practical fighting skills, Mike finds the most important part of City WingTsun is in the people. It is his WingTsun classmates that have become like a family, a group of caring martial artists whom he wouldn't question to help out.
Mike has also recently discovered the vertical fist and low elbow of Wing Tsun runs in his family as evidenced by this photograph (below left) of his grandfather circa 1940. |
