GORDON PRESTON
Gordon has been practicing martial arts for almost 30 years. He started wrestling at age 12 and began training in full contact Kung-fu and boxing at age 16 .He recieved his purple belt in BJJ jointly from Stephen Kamphuis and Anthony Perosh. He has a black belt in Judo, boxed under Ken Billinghurst ( member of Canadian Boxing  hall of fame),  trained to second degree black sash with Murry Parsons (1975 western Canadian full contact Kung Fu champion) trained with  Max Marrin ( Maximum fighting champion ), the Chinese Cultural University wrestling Team and trained for 7 years in Wing Chun Kung fu under
Lo Man Kam ( nephew of Yipman ).
Gordon opened Evolution Combat in 1995 ( then known as Taipei submission fighting gym) to bring submission fighting to the public of Taiwan. Gordon has trained many to victory in sport Jiu Jitsu, submission grappling and MMA. In 2004 at the age of 39 Gordon fought Asian games San Da gold medalist and 3rd degree judo black belt Lin Sun Hsiang in the TFKC. Gordon won the match in 1 min 30 sec by standing rear naked choke. The match caused much controversy because many had considered Lin the best fighter in his weight class on the island. Gordon is recognized as a pioneer of the sport in Taiwan. He has worked the door for many years in various Bars and Night clubs so he knows what works and
what doesn’t !