Stage combat training should not be viewed as a narrow 'menu' of techniques with no application beyond their obvious intent. The experience of training to become skilful in this area takes the student through a physical movement regime which creates a high degree of kinesthetic awareness, good environmental and spatial awareness, and a good performance discipline. Any actor who can wield a potentially dangerous prop, navigate their appropriate floor pattern with regard to other performers, and the audience/camera position, perform a highly vigorous physical routine, remember lines and cues, maintain artistry and character and still be heard at the back of the auditorium, is achieving all that can be asked of any actor. In a stage fight, they are called upon to do all this at once.

I teach actors, students, schoolchildren, stunt performers, re-enactors, and anyone who is interested. I have a great deal of expertise in many fighting styles from various cultures, and can teach both technical accuracy and theatrical safety.

However I am not merely a fight 'technician' and I do not expect students to divorce their artistic creativity from their fight technique. My fight courses include guidance for students as performers as well as offering expertise in the safe execution of violence in a theatrical context. It is possible to create a fight which serves the dramatic need for spontaneity and tension, and the actor’s need for safety. It is possible to find a physical truth to replace the artifice of ‘traditional’ stage fights.