A Personal Testimony: I became fascinated by the martial arts at a very early age and studied Karate, Judo, Kung Fu and Western Style Boxing. In the early 1980s I began to hear about an art called "Ninjutsu" and out of interest attended my first Ninjutsu seminar back in November 1985. That seminar changed my life and I have never looked back.
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Since then I have travelled extensively throughout the UK, Europe and Japan to train in these Ninja and Samurai Arts and studied with both western and Japanese teachers. I even organised international seminars where I brought to the UK from the States on four seperate occasions the father of Ninjutsu in the western world, author of over twenty best selling books, bodyguard to the Dalai Lama and Black Belt Hall of Fame member Stephen K Hayes.
After nearly four decades of training I obtained eight black belts from four seperate organisations including from Grandmaster Dr Masaaki Hatsumi, Grandmaster Shoto Tanemura and Stephen K Hayes.
During these years of training I worked in the field of security and law enforcement. I realised that to give my students the very best in self defence training I needed the experience to pass on real techniques that work and over the many decades in the field I achieved that and even received a police commendation for arresting an armed violent criminal.
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However I did not stop there. To give my students the very best training I became a qualified Trainer under City and Guilds, and an Assessor under NCFE. This gave me the skills to not only understand how to teach but how to assess someones competency and give feedback and advice.
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Over the years I have been fortunate to train and work with the Police, The British Army, NHS, Transport for London, a number of sporting associations and I had the honour of training over 200 managers for the Commonwealth Games. I now run a successful company called Vanguard Security Training delivering all types of security training across the UK.
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In November 2021 I opened the Warrior Quest Martial Arts Academy, and now devote my time passing on the arts of the Samurai, Ninja and methods of self defence to both adults and children who wish to master these arts.
Gary holds the following qualifications and grades
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4th degree black belt in Bujinkan Ninpo Taijutsu from Dr Masaaki Hatsumi
2nd degree black belt in Shinobi Kai Ninpo Bugei From Peter Brown
1st degree Black Belt in Genbukan Ninpo From Shoto Tanemura
1st degree black belt in To-Shin Do (Modern Combat Method) From Stephen K Hayes
City and Guilds Level 3 Trainer in Life Long Learning Award
NCFE Level 3 Qualification Assessors Award
City And Guilds Level 3 Conflict Management Trainers Award
City And Guilds Level 3 Physical Intervention Trainers Award
City And Guilds Level 3 Prevention of Management and Aggression Trainers Award
NCFE Chapter 8 Award
Home Office Trained in Control and Restraint
First Aid Qualified Trainer
Full enhanced DBS