Meet our instructors

Meet our team of expert martial artists. Each instructor is highly trained and excels at coaching to bring you the highest quality teaching. We are passionate about empowering individuals with effective self-defence skills in a positive and enjoyable way.

Sifu Ben

Master Instructor of the Mui Faa Academy

Sifu Ben started his Mui Faa training under Master Chapplow as a private student in 2009 and has since attained his Master level instructor grade. He was honoured before the passing of Master Chapplow to become the director of the Academy. He is a keen fitness and training exponent and enjoys physical challenges having competed in triathalons and running races up to ultra distances.

Sifu Ben is very much interested in teaching all students, no matter the age, the soft yet powerful facet of the wing chun system.

Sifu Simon

Senior Instructor of the Mui Faa Academy

Sifu Simon is a direct student of Master Chapplow and is head of the Mui Faa club in Plymouth. He has expert knowledge of the energy systems within Wing Chun and how they can be applied to devasting effect in self-defence.

Through his training and career has gained expert knowledge of human physiology and body mechanics which he applies throughout his teaching.

Sifu Rash

Senior Instructor of the Mui Faa Academy

Based in South West of England, Sifu Patel has a full time martial arts school in Gloucester. He has over 40 years of martial arts experience and has been teaching since 1990.

Sifu Patel has also achieved blackbelts in other martial arts disciplines such: Lau Gar Kung Fu, Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiujitsu and Karate. Coach Patel has also been successful competing in Kung Fu, Kickboxing and Grappling competitions and won many titles. He has a lifetime of martial arts experience to pass on to future generations.

Master Matt

Founder of the Mui Faa Academy

The late Master Chapplow's martial arts journey began in 1970 with Judo, Shotokan karate, Shaolin Kung Fu, Chinese Kickboxing and Lau Gar kick boxing. He then looked for a martial art system to last a lifetime, through youth and old age, that would remain highly effective and flexible enough to adapt to an individual’s physical capabilities. All these attributes he found in the Wing Chun style.