Since 2012, the Kung Fu and Tai Chi teachers at The Home of Arts, Antoniya and Ralf started regularly to visit China at places as Shaolin Temple, Tianmeng Kung Fu Academy and other traditional Kung Fu schools. Some of the Masters they trained with in China are Master Shi Yan Jun -34th Generation Shaolin Warrior Monk of the Shaolin Temple and 17th Generation Disciple of Mei Hua Quan; Grand Master Han Baiguang who is the 16th generation successor of Meihua Quan Kung Fu and ranked highest in the style of Meihua quan Kung Fu; Master Wang Guiliang who is highly experienced in Bagua zhang, Meihua quan and Tai Chi Chen style and others.
In 2015 they founded The Home of Arts. Each year they China to continue their training, to help to expose Chinese Kung Fu to the West and to grow the interest in the benefits of Kung Fu.
Ralf started training Martial Arts when he was 8 years old. He trained for 10 years Japanese Budo. He begun with the style of Karate Wado and later also trained Kendo, Aiki-Jitsu and Aikido. He started training Hung Gar Kung Fu in Utrecht and then in 2010 went for first time to China. There he trained with Shaolin and Meihua Master Du Shifu (Shi Yan Jun) and later the chance occurred to meet with Grandmaster Han Baiguang and to learn further on the traditional Meihua quan Kung Fu style from him. This style is not yet commonly known in the West but is a very effective northern style which has a careful balance between the internal and external.
In the Netherlands he trained at the Wushu team Utrecht and later at Young Dragons Utrecht where he trained and instructed Choi Li Fut, a style from the South of China. Begin 2014 he moved to Dubai where he continued training the styles of Shaolin quan and Tai Chi with Master John Duval and Master Frank Rao. From 2015 he teaches at The Home of Arts. Currently he trains each year in China with Grandmaster Han Baihuan and Bagua master Wang Guiliang.
Antoniya started her Kung Fu experience at the age of 18. The styles she begun to train were Xing yi quan, Bagua zhang and Tai Chi. She learnt these styles in Sofia, Bulgaria from Shifu Dorian Alexandrov and Shifu Yovcho Kruschev. Later she continued her Kung fu study in Dubai where she trained mainly the styles of Shaolin quan and Tai Chi with Master John Duval and Master Frank Rao. From 2015 she teaches at The Home of Arts. Currently she trains each year in China with Grandmaster Han Baihuan and Bagua master Wang Guiliang.