Louis Linn

Louis Linn (林瑞耀, born in 1947) is a martial artist, teaching his family style of ''O Shin Chuen'' (), a traditional five-animal Fujian Shaolin style, in Sweden. He introduced Chinese martial arts, Wushu also popularly called kung fu, to Sweden in 1975 and soon became a well known instructor within the martial arts society there.

He was commissioned to teach hand-to-hand combat to the officers at Kustjägarskolan (Coastal Rangers in English), the Swedish amphibious special forces, which he did 1979–1983 for which he was awarded the coastal ranger's statuette (the 12th person to receive this award since 1956). From 1982 to 1985, he taught Stockholmspolisens särskilda insatsstyrka, the Counter Terrorist Unit of the Stockholm Police Force. From 1978 to 1983, Linn taught Wushu at The Royal Opera, and later, the Stockholm International School (1997–1998).

In 1979, he established the Swedish Wushu Federation, and was one of the main people in founding the European Wushu Federation in 1985 and the International Wushu Federation in 1990. Later, in 2004, he took part in founding the European Shuai Jiao Union.

Today he is still active as the chief instructor of Louis Linn O Shin Chuen Union, an organization he founded in 1977 to promote ''O Shin Chuen''. Provided by Wikipedia