Eduardo Barrios

Eduardo Barrios was born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1965. He migrated to the United Kingdom in 1978, currently lives in Coventry, England. Eduardo has over thirty-five years of Chinese martial arts experience, twenty-nine of which is in his chosen field of Iron-Ox Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu. In addition, Eduardo is a qualified TCM practitioner in the field of Orthopedic Acupuncture, Micro-Systems, Chinese Kung Fu Medicine known as Dit Da. Eduardo commences writing poetry in 2009, his first published work was a selection of poems titled The Essence of Life. His first book on Iron-Ox Southern Praying Mantis was published in 2011, Cross-Pattern Lee Family Boxing Set. That book was written whilst hospitalised for ten months, as a request of some of his students. That gave focus to his writing and the second book in this topic is Ba Duan Jin Qi Gong -Health Restoring Exercices. Eduardo has dedicated the last ten years of his life in sharing and evolving the art of Iron-Ox Praying Mantis and self-cultivation through Qi Gong and meditation.