Sifu Roberto Pasqualino (4th TG) was born in Gela (CL) on August 9 of the 1978 and lives in Butera (CL) to the 1997 . Since childhood love of martial arts is fortunate in 1992 , at age 14, to meet with the Wing Tsun with Sifu Nunzio Nastasi, then head WTOI (Wing Tsun Organization Italy) Eastern Sicily.
Immediately falls in love of Wing Tsun Kung Fu, practice it with passion and constantly participating in national and international seminars in Gela, Livorno, Naples, Palermo, Siracusa etc.. that allow them to learn about and take lessons from the greats of Wing Tsun and dell'Escrima of those times as Sifu Cuciuffo, Si Gung K. Kernspecht, Sifu Schembri, Uwe Köppling Sifu, Sifu Oliver Konig, Sifu Tassos, Emin Boztepe, Sifu Roland , Renè Latosa, Bill Newman, Si Jo Leung Ting and so on.
During an internship in Pozzuoli (NA) in the 1996 is declared the 9th grade strongest in Italy by Sifu Cuciuffo, head of WTOI today.
The structure of Wing Tsun, geometry and applied physics they do fall in love with this art to such an extent that in the summer of 1997 moved to Catania to take the right engineering studies to better understand the reality around us and be able to better interpret the principles of the WT, also began teaching in Gravina di Catania (CT).
During an internship with Sijo Leung Ting in Livorno in 1997 , due to some misunderstandings with Sifu Filippo Cuciuffo decides it no longer wants to continue his career with WTOI.
Despite the adversity and the distance, he continues to practice Wing Tsun but due to a family catastrophe that it involves directly is forced to discontinue his path for a period.
In 2004 a degree in Engineering, for business reasons he moved to Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) and 2006 resumes its path of student and teacher, teaching barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME), Olivarella (ME), Messina and Milazzo (ME).
The love of Wing Tsun Kung Fu that a child has changed his life makes him resume the path pupil and teacher, with the utmost humility that characterizes it and with even greater determination than he had when he started.
Always travels in Italy and across Europe to improve more and more because the idea that a good teacher should be above all a humble student.
The frequent trips of study for the Wing Tsun the lead up to Hong Kong, he knows many masters as GM Wan Kam Leung, GM Siu Yuk Men, GM Sam Lau and more and November 10 2013 after personally known GM Ip Ching, son of Ip Man, becomes Permanent Member of the Ving Tsun Athletic Association.
In October 2013 knows Amang Manuelito Herrera, a teacher of Philippine ancestry Escrima / Kali who practices his own family style and began with him a new path in the use of weapons, specifically sticks and knives .
June 29 2014 after years of sacrifices is appointed Sifu by his master Sifu Nunzio Nastasi.
July 27 2014 after so many hours of private lessons, given his great passion, the speed of learning and skills, Amang Manuelito Herrera Herrera Kali responsible for appointing the Dynamic System for the province of Messina.
On October 24 2015 also becomes responsible for the province of Cosenza in which held monthly technical and educational seminars in order to promote Wing Tsun Kung Fu in Calabria.
In 2016 along with other Italian and European masters and technical bases IWTSA (Independent Wing Tsun System Alliance) an association whose sole purpose is to study the Wing Tsun with the best masters of the international scene, without constraints, to allow anyone to learn it and study it, even to those who have great economic possibilities, which unfortunately is not possible in most of the existing associations.
With IWTSA continues a serious and thorough study that led him to meet and work throughout Europe, America and Asia, with the Grand Masters as Sifu Chris Collins (responsible head of the Hong Kong Wing Tsun Association in Hong Kong), Sifu Emanuele Fracella (head head of Italian Wing Tsun Kung Fu Association in Lecce) with whom there was a relationship of deep respect and friendship.With Sifu Emmanuel Fracella starts a private lessions to review the entire system and fill in gaps in the body of the management and use of energy. His path continues working with Grand Master Sifu Allan W. Fong (responsible head of Allan Fong's Martial Arts International in New York direct student of Sijo Leung Ting) Sifu Grand Master Rene Latosa (responsible Latosa Escrima Concepts in Windsor in California), Sifu Sergio Iadarola (responsible head of the International Wing Tjun Kung Fu Association in Hong Kong), Sifu Taner Erdogan and Sifu Graziano Di Giorgio (responsible leaders of the International Martial Arts Alliance in Stuttgart in Germany) and many others.
In June of 2016 he met Sifu Tam Yiu Ming (chief manager of the Wing Tjun Kung Fu Academy in London, a direct student of GM Leung Ting and GM Cheng Chuen Fun) and invites him to the Campus IWTSA Milazzo, during the seminar are training with him privately and fascinated by his knowledge and skill he demanded and got to become his direct student so that we can learn properly and without personal interpretations pure Leung Ting System.
From July 2016 to June 2017 he follows his master Sifu Tam Yiu Ming all over Europe, working with him privately to review the whole system and in July 2017 through the Bai Si Lai (Tea Ceremony) officially becomes his pupil-son And receives the Red T-Shirt and the Third Technical Level (in IWTSA the third technical level corresponds to the knowledge of the Leung Ting System up to the Wooden Dummy).
From September 2017 to May 2018 he travels all over the world (Spain, Germany, Sweden, England, Hong Kong etc.) making international relations with the best representatives of the Leung Ting System, in Hong Kong he meets various masters, he does private internships with his Si -Gung GM Cheng Chuen Fun, meets his Si-Bak-Gung GM Leung Ting and has the opportunity to verify and ascertain that what is studied in IWTSA schools is the Leung Ting system as it is studied in Hong Kong still today without any type of personal changes or evolutions.
On the occasion of the Campus Milazzo 2018 in Sicily, in addition to his Si-fu Tam Yiu Ming, his Si-Gung GM Cheng Chuen Fun and all the European instructors arrive, the wing tsun italia starts to grow again, on the occasion an international agreement is made which leads to the birth of one of the largest international alliances of Wing Tsun Leung Ting system, the "International Alliance Wing Tsun Academies"
In January 2019 he became President of the IWTSA and in 2022, during the Milazzo Campus, Sifu Tam Yiu Ming confers him the 4th Technical level.
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