Chris is a 31+ year practitioner of the martial arts, with 27 of those years spent training in Asian systems. He has black belt or equivalent ranks in Arnis, Serrada Escrima, Isshin Ryu Karate, Kempo-Jujitsu and Tae Kwon Do and has trained and fought amateur Muay Thai and San Shou (3-1, 2 KOs). Additionally Chris has trained in modern boxing and competed in collegiate/high school wrestling, making sectionals his senior year.

Five years ago Chris’s interests moved towards Western martial arts, in particular early modern (late 19^th early 20^th Century) forms of “Self-Defense” from the USA and Europe. Chris is a principal of the Houston School of Defense practicing/teaching pugilism, wrestling, Western walking-stick methods and Bartitsu. A member of the Bartitsu Society and the Western Martial Arts Coaltion, Chris was a contributor to the second volume of the Bartitsu Compendium and in 2010 Chris taught two Bartitsu seminars at the inaugural Western Martial Arts Coalition gathering in Houston, Texas.

Finally, with an avid interest in the American “Weapons Master”, AC Cunningham, Chris has transcribed Cunningham’s 1906 work “Sabre and Bayonet” , and has produced a blog on the study of Cunningham’s other work “The Cane as A Weapon” (1912).