Around two months into his training, he got a hold of a book “Wing Tsun Kuen” written by Grandmaster Leung Ting (the last closed door disciple of the late Grandmaster Ip Man). Vogel and Grandmaster Wang Kiu a direct student of the late Grandmaster Ip Man who immigrated to The Netherlands in the 70’s. In 1987 Sifu Sergio started training in the Wing Chun system under Sifu R. Visiting as much martial art schools as possible in Amsterdam together with a group of his friends to watch the classes or take lessons in the diverse Martial Arts the city had to offer was also a common theme. To delve deeper he started writing letters with some of Bruce’s early students like James de Mile and Jesse Glover in order to find out more about the personal Martial Arts development of his idol. Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola started his Martial Arts career at the age of six with the Japanese art of Judo in the Dutch capital Amsterdam (The Netherlands) winning several local tournaments, during his teenage years he also build up his martial experience with the practice of other Martial Arts like Pencak Silat (Pamur style) and Wado Kai Karate.īeing a big Bruce Lee fan he studied and read everything concerning him, Bruce Lee commenced his martial arts journey with Wing Chun so for Sifu Sergio that would be the way forward.

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