Mike Hart, Degree 1
Mike started training in 1979 at the age of 12 in Wado Ryu karate, progressing to the Li (Lee) family system under the late Professor Chee Soo. At 16, he became the youngest teacher in Chee Soo’s association throughout it’s international branches. After some 10 years learning and teaching Li family arts including Feng Shou Kung Fu, Li Style Taijiquan, Chinese Yoga, massage and weapons, work forced a break of 4 years and in 1993 met an old student, Tony Court who was teaching Erle Montaigue’s taiji system. He qualified as a teacher of this system in 1996 and set up a school in Swansea.
In 1996 he also met Gordon Faulkner of the Chanquanshu School of Daoist Arts in Scotland. After much planning and talking over the phone, Gordon kindly agreed to come to Swansea for the first Healing Dao workshop and has been a visitor ever since to pass his knowledge on to students in the South Wales area. He continues his studies with Gordon Faulkner realising there is still much work to be done.
Mike has also studied Aikido, Wing Chun and has researched into many other combative arts. He is Vice President of the Scotland & Wales Daoyin Yangsheng Gong Association for Wales and is a member of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU).
In 2001 Mike attended his first workshop with Peter Ralston and has trained with him every year since. In July 2003 Mike became an official Cheng Hsin Trainer.
In November 2004, Mike became a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and in July 2005 gained his Degree One in Cheng Hsin T’ui Shou from Master Peter Ralston