Women's Street Smart Instructors

The founder of the Street Smart workshops, lead instructor and owner of S.A.F.E Self Defence & Close Quarters Combat is Charlie Riley, who has over 30 years of traditional martial arts, street self defence and close quarters combat experience. He's a certified advanced civilian Close Quarters Combat instructor, Black Sash Kung Fu instructor, Kickboxing and Chinese Boxing instructor and has other instructorship qualifications in Unarmed Combatives, Pacific Archipelago Combatives and Filipino Combatives.

Antonina Fourman and Ishita Dwivedi are the two female instructors who assist Charlie, they have both trained for a couple of years in the Women's Street Smart syllabus and are currently learning additional Close Quarters Combat and traditional martial art skills.

2019 will see the Women's Street Smart program certifying additional instructors in the following areas: Hamilton, Rotorua, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch.