HEAD INSTRUCTOR: CHRIS BISHOP

 

A former security professional with more than 30 years continuous experience teaching martial arts, including ten years teaching classes in Women’s Self-Defence, Chris is a fully qualified level 2 Kung Fu coach with affiliation to the Australian Institute of Sport and is a member of both the Australian Martial Arts Industry Association, and the Australian Kung Fu and Wu Shu Federation. 

 

Chris has trained peace-keeping and peace-monitoring forces for dispatch to Cambodia, Bougainville, Kosovo, Timor L’Este and the Solomon Islands.  He was involved in both the RAMSI mission to the Solomon Islands and the Enhanced Cooperation Program (ECP) with Papua New Guinea.  Chris has trained Australian government personnel for deployment in more than 30 countries including Iraq and Afghanistan and he is a full member of the International Association for Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP). 

 

Chris has an Honours degree from the Australian National University and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Education specialising in behavioural psychology.  He has completed post-graduate units in psychology and anthropology focusing on the incidence of cross-cultural violence and has published two psychology handbooks dealing with various aspects of violent dysfunction.  In 2007, Chris was conferred with a PhD in History from the Australian National University.