Hi, I am Patrick!

I have been training for more than 20 years. I love training and I love to teach my arts to other people.

Many years of experience both as a student and a teacher close to the best qualify me for creating the training programmes and teaching them.

I take my arts seriously and try always to work to the best of my abilities so that people can benefit from it as much as they train.

I am still active as a student in martial arts myself, trying to deepen the understanding of the art, because I strongly believe that to be a good teacher one must remain a student himself.

I enjoy being close to nature; have hiked along many places in the Greek countryside. In order to relax I play music (base guitar & trumpet) in my free time and take my family (I have a wife, a 6 year old son and a dog) on long bike rides and adventures in the forest.

I have participated in numerous seminars given by teachers such as Kostas Kanakis, Tang Tung Wing, Liu Jing Ru, Wang Xiang and Cheng Xsiaowang and Pedro Fleitas acquiring additional skills.

I have also taken part in various competitions winning two gold medals at the 5th international Wushu Competition (2010) in Hong Kong in the categories Tai Chi Empty Hands Form and Tai Chi Sword.

In Greece I have contested in competitions organized by the Hellenic Wushu Kung Fu Federation between the years 2004 and 2011 winning a total of 6 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 4 bronze medals.

To  this day I am still pursuing knowledge under the guidance of some of the aforementioned teachers, attending seminars and private lessons.

At the behest of the late Dr. Stephanos Gialamas, the previous president of the American Community Schools in Athens (ACS Athen), I had been working on introducing traditional martial arts practice methodologies in all strata of the school employees (faculty and staff, administration) as coping mechanisms for handling stress, strengthening focus, and alleviating sedentary work ailments.

I was in charge of a specialized curriculum of mindfulness for children mainly focussing on strengthening self-awareness as well as showing mechanisms for emotional regulation. I was also a teaching member of the Youth-to-Youth-Project, an initiative aiming to integrate a group of unattended refugee minors in the school population and provide them with the highest standard education available.

Apart from private lessons, I am also currently teaching open lessons for Taichi (Taijiquan), Yang Style, to beginners and advanced students, and Chi Kung (Qigong), the Yek San Pa Fa, to people over their 50s, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre.