Grandmaster

Sifu Emin Boztepe is the founder and Chief Instructor of EBMAS - the Emin Boztepe Martial Arts System. He is one of the best-known names in modern Wing Tzun, and the founder of an organisation that today reaches dozens of countries.

From Turkey to Germany

Born in Turkey, Sifu Boztepe grew up in Germany from the age of four. The everyday reality of being a young immigrant in a new country pushed him toward physical training early on - not as a hobby but as a way to handle himself. By his mid-teens he had begun a serious search through whatever martial arts he could reach: Taekwondo, Karate, Muay Thai, boxing, and wrestling, training across several styles in parallel before he found one he wanted to commit to.

Discovery of Wing Tzun

That commitment came at eighteen, after watching a Wing Tzun demonstration. What he saw didn't look like the styles he had trained - no force-on-force exchanges, no large movements, just direct, economical solutions to attacks. He committed himself to Wing Tzun and trained for over a decade under one of the senior European teachers carrying the lineage of Grandmaster Yip Man. He rose through the European organisation, eventually carrying the responsibility for representing the system in seminars across Europe.

Los Angeles, 1990

In 1990 Sifu Boztepe opened his first international school in Los Angeles. The school quickly became a reference point in the United States and drew students from professional and operational backgrounds - including instruction for law-enforcement and military personnel, work he has continued in different forms ever since. The American chapter cemented his reputation as a teacher who could deliver Wing Tzun in a way that holds up under real, high-pressure conditions.

Founding EBMAS

In 2001, after more than two decades of teaching and the desire to teach the system on his own terms, Sifu Boztepe founded EBMAS. The new organisation kept the technical roots of Wing Tzun and added Latosa Escrima - the Filipino weapon and empty-hand system he had trained intensively with Grandmaster René Latosa - as a second pillar.

EBMAS has grown into a worldwide network with certified instructors and schools across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and beyond. The headquarters today is in Istanbul.

How he teaches

The hallmark of Sifu Boztepe's teaching is a refusal to let technique drift away from reality. The emphasis is on economy of movement, structure, and sensitivity - qualities that don't depend on the practitioner being bigger or stronger than the attacker. He continues to travel for seminars and to maintain a daily personal training discipline that is unusual at his level of experience.