About the Instructors at the Malvern Eskrima Group

Marcie Harding with Jun Dacayana

Malvern Eskrima Group
&
Dacayana UK

Marcie has studied and practised Martial Arts over many years.

She is Chief Instructor at the Malvern Eskrima Group and along with John 'Jo' Biggs of Sacred Spring, is Joint Representative of Dacayana UK Eskrima (authorised by Master Jun Dacayana of Cebu City Philippines) Dacayana System .

Keith Anthony
Eskrima Instructor

Keith with Jun Dacayana and Marcie

Keith has been studying at the club since it's inception in 2003. Keith has previously studied Indonesian Silat, a closely related Art to Eskrima which complements it very well! Keith provides Marcie with valuable support in teaching at the club

Trev Lawson
Eskrima Instructor & JKD Concepts Apprentice Instructor

Trev has a background in many Arts including a lengthy study of Tai Chi (10 years or so!) and Wing Chun. Trev provides Marcie with valuable support by teaching at the club.

Messias Pereira with Jun Dacayana

Messias Pereira
Eskrima & JKD Concepts Instructor

Messias has been training in the Martial Arts longer than he can remember. He has a wealth of knowledge and holds several Black Belts in other Arts, although in his words "These are not important!" Messias is a quite suberb Muay Thai practitioner as well as an excelllent grappler and mixed Martial Artist. These are just some of the skills he brings to the group. He is able to transmit just some of his knowledge to us through the JKD concepts program.

Doug Payne
Eskrima Assistant Instructor

Doug joined the club 4 years ago, having previously trained in Karate and Kung Fu for 10 years. Doug is a keen advocate of flow drills, which are a significant part of Eskrima training and particularly enjoys practising (and teaching these). Doug is also involved with amateur acting and notes a number of similarities in training exercises between performing arts and martial arts!