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Dustin Leaney is a Level 1 Black Sash Instructor of TaoZen Wing Chun Style Kung Fu after having trained with Sifu Richard Wong since 2000. Dustin’s first martial arts training began by watching dodgy martial arts movies in the early eighties. Although this never amounted to any more than a few mock kung fu battles with his brothers. Real training began in Wing Chun Kung Fu in Cairns after Dustin was dumped by a girl who accused him of being ‘too nice.’ After 1 year at the Cairns Kung Fu Academy, Dustin had progressed two belts and had become passionate about Wing Chun. In 1999, Dustin moved to Sydney to study architecture. Wanting to continue training, Dustin tried several schools of Wing Chun in Sydney, but it wasn’t until 2000, that Dustin met Sifu Richard Wong and fell in love with his blend of Tai Chi and Wing Chun, creating an effective self defence, that enhances health, relaxation and wellbeing. In 2002, University schedules started to interfere with training schedules, so Dustin was admitted into Sifu Richard Wong’s private class of a few select students. 2004 was Dustin’s 6^th and final year of architecture study. For Dustin’s final year assignment, he chose to combine his two passions, Architecture and Kung Fu, and develop an architectural philosophy based in the traditions of Taoism. This increased Dustin’s interest in the philosophical aspects behind the martial arts, as well as introducing Dustin to alternative architectural philosophies such as Feng Shui. Dustin achieved the rank of Level 1 Black sash in March, 2005, and having no more university commitments after graduation, returned to the public class as an assistant instructor. In February, 2006 Dustin moved to Port Macquarie to work more closely with his architectural mentor. Sifu Richard Wong encouraged Dustin to open a local branch so that Dustin could continue to train in Wing Chun, and share his martial arts experience and philosophies with others. Dustin continues to train Wing Chun at the Flynn’s Beach Surf Club, and practices Chi Kung on the beach at sunrise. He is also pursuing his interests in Feng Shui, Taoism, Zen, energy medicine, healing, and other areas that he finds very compatible with the internal energy systems that are developed through the kung fu & Chi Kung. Dustin continues to maintain a very close relationship with Sifu Richard Wong and the head branch of Internal Martial Arts in Sydney. Dustin still collects dodgy martial arts movies and can still be accused of being “too nice.”