Tony Wolf.

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A veteran of the martial and performing arts, Tony Wolf has worked as a martial arts instructor, professional wrestler and fight director/stunt co-ordinator. Between 1988 - 1994 he developed his original Wolf System of performance/combat exercises, which has been taught to actors, martial artists, stunt performers and stage combat specialists throughout the world. Tony's fight direction and action design have been featured in over two hundred feature film, television, theatre, opera and ballet productions. Between 1998-2000 he served as the Fighting Styles Designer for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy and in 2002 he toured Japan performing fights for the Washington National Opera's production of Otello, starring Plácido Domingo. Tony regularly teaches a range of master-classes and seminars for martial arts associations, universities, stunt teams, acting academies and performance conferences throughout New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada and Europe. He serves as the editor for the EJMAS: Journal of Manly Arts, a scholarly online journal focusing on the martial arts and combat sports of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 2005 Tony edited The Bartitsu Compendium, a complete history of E.W. Barton-Wright's "New Art of Self Defence," and in 2006 he edited a revised and expanded re-publication of A.C. Cunningham's 1912 manual, The Cane as a Weapon. Tony is a member of the advisory panel of the American Heritage Fighting Arts Association, an Acknowledged Instructor with the Historical Maritime Combat Association, a member of Western Martial Arts Illustrated magazine's editorial board and a founding member of The Bartitsu Society.