Matthias Gruber

Matthias Gruber is a computer scientist, specialized in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence, and a court-certified expert in software development. His hobbies are private aviation, mountaineering, diving and yoga.

He has been studying Wing Chun in Yip Man 葉問 lineages starting in 1991 and has developed the Eight Pattern Wing Chun System during the years 1999 to 2011, using some of the methods and knowledge from his research and from additional lineages.

The Eight Pattern Wing Chun system is only taught to a few private students for optimal quality. These students are the first generation of Eight Pattern Wing Chun instructors.

Amongst his private students are well known security professionals like Marco Löw , teachers and even masters of other wing chun lineages and also successful fighters from other styles like kickboxing.