A 5-day wellness advance rooted in traditional Silat and Golden Qigong

His journey began in childhood with Judo, where he reached Junior Black Belt and represented the British Judo Team across Europe and America, an early foundation in balance, timing, pressure, and live engagement. Years of Kung Fu followed, developing him as both practitioner and teacher.

His search eventually led him to Silat. He trained in Malaysian and Indonesian Silat and reached instructor level, before his practice became centred on Silat Cimande Asli Tarikolot, a lineage he studied directly in the village of Tarikolot, West Java, training under Bapak Firdaus, who authorised him to teach.

What he teaches is practical and close-range: footwork, evasion, striking, entries, limb control, off-balancing, locks, takedowns, sensitivity, timing, the ability to respond under real pressure. Cimande is trained with etiquette and restraint as much as technique, respect for teachers, for family, and for how martial skill is used.

He teaches across the UK and is available for national and international seminar work, offering students a living tradition, practical in application and rooted directly in its Indonesian source.