Instructor and Student of the Year

On the this table you can see the historical awards to the Instructors and students who have had a profound influence of the quality of the UK Wing Chun Kung Fu Assoc. The Award is presented for the year previous. Sadly we had the untimely passing of one of our most loved teachers/students, Bobby Beach, in 2013.

Wing Chun Skills demonstrated by UK Wing Chun Assoc. student, the late Bobby Beach.

Wing Chun Hand Skills demostrated by the UK Wing Chun Assoc. late student Bobby Beach.

YEAR	STUDENT	YEAR	Instructor Of The Year
2001	Sifu Nick Martin	2001	n/a
2002	Salim Rajualawalla	2002	n/a
2003	Daniel Reader	2003	Sifu Mark Solomons
2004	Chris Cranie	2004	Sifu Mark Phillips
2005	Steve Smith	2005	Sifu Tony Jaywant
2006	Sifu Mark Phillips	2006	Sifu Nick Martin
2007	Jeff Cure	2007	Sifu Abid Mahmood
2008	Sifu Eric Wilson	2008	Sifu Paul Spencer
2009	Carol Chan	2009	Sifu Gary Cooper
2010	Russell Webster	2010	Sifu Ashley Phillips
2011	?	2011	Sifu Zubbiar Khan
2012	Mark Blackbourn	2012	Steve Dhillon
2013	Sifu Brian 'Bobby' Beach (posthumous)	2013	Sifu Kevin Oldman (Honorary Award)
2014	Kevin Cutts	2014	Alex Evans
2015	Adrian Downes	2015	Sifu Roy Quiddington
2016	Steve Hunt	2016	Russell Webster
2017	Toby Cooper	2017	Steve Cobbold
2018	Darren Sumpton	2018	Ryan Moyce

The new Bobby Beach Memorial Trophy is a lovely cup awarded to Instructors as a way of keeping the spirit of a great UKWCKFA son alive. The trophy bears his name and the first recipient was his long term friend, and training partner, Sifu Kevin Oldman. Kevin has now retired from teaching and training.

The following year the Award went to Alex Evans who took over Sifu Kevin Oldman’s class. He too has since retired from teaching formal classes but is working hard to put new instructors in place in the Norwich area, thus keeping the Art that Bobby, Kevin and Alex loved alive.

Alex passed the mantel over to Ryan Moyce, another dedicated Norfolk based student. The legacy of Norfolk Wing Chun is quite incredible.