Our team
Sifu Keith Collyer
Helping you stay confident and ready
Sifu Keith Collyer is the founder and head coach at Gutter Wing Chun . With nearly 3 decades of martial arts experience, Keith’s journey began after an active youth spent in the Royal Marine Cadets, competing in cross-country running for Sussex, a stint in the Territorial Army and playing American football for the Crawley Raiders.
His passion for martial arts was sparked by Kamon Wing Chun, where he trained extensively and became an instructor under Sifu Bill Bostock. Keith began exploring practical self-defence disciplines. His search led him to Krav Maga, where he was drawn to its focus on mindset, psychology, and real-world threat response. He completed an intensive 18-day Krav Maga Instructor Programme and launched his first class in Crawley.
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Balancing railway shift work with evening classes, Keith eventually transitioned to teaching full-time—driven by a mission to empower others through effective, realistic self-defence training. All through this time he kept up his wing chun training, mostly private with his then Sifu Was Hussey to complete the whole wing chun system and gain his 5th degree black sash. With his vast knowledge of self defence training in many other systems over the years, he has trained in Eskrima, Libra Knife , Thai boxing, Boxing, Gained his Blue belt BJJ under professor Keith Makenzie ( a neck injury stopped Training for a while ) Gutter wing chun was Bourne from the respect and tactics of Gutter Fighting from Fairburn and Sykes ( world war 2 Combative) and Keith’s experience of self defence and dirty tactics to blend with his wing chun to create the Gutter Wing Chun fight system! Sifu Keith loves the wing chun system but got fed up with the bad press and many wing chunners practicing the pat a cake slappy wing chun that would not, in his opinion, knock the top off a rice pudding ! Sifu Keith has developed his system to broaden how he looks at Wing Chun, and uses built in redundancy so more chance of it working under pressure, also he delves deeply within the traditional system to work with movement and principles rather than just technique.
He is currently putting ideas and experiences in place to write 2 books, one Gutter Wing Chun and the other Conflict Survival Training.
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Sihing Irvind Sihota
Helping you stay confident and ready
Sihing Irvind Sihota is a dedicated team member at Gutter Wing Chun supporting the group’s mission to provide effective and realistic self-defense orientated wing chun training.
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As part of the team, Irvind contributes to creating a safe, focused, and encouraging environment where members can develop practical skills and confidence in dealing with real-world situations. His strengths are Chi Sau and Lat Sue, putting together sticky hands and Free Fighting. Sihing Irvind is currently ranked Advanced Diploma Brown 11th Grade and currently training for his Black Sash, He also brings other martial experience being a Brown belt Aikido practitioner and has trained in Japanese martial arts for over 20 years. Irvind is also a qualified chartered physiotherapist, rehabilitation and acupuncture professional.
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Sihing Dan Purvis
Helping you stay confident and ready
Sihing Dan Purvis is a valued team member at GUTTER wing Chun, contributing to the group’s commitment to providing effective, realistic self-defence training. As part of the team, Dan plays a supportive role in helping create an environment where individuals can develop confidence, resilience, and practical skills for real-world situations.
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Dan’s strengths are Forms and applications from the forms for Lat Sau (Free Fighting).Dan’s other attributes are patience and a high level of skill. He also Snowboards and mountain bikes. Currently Graded Advanced Diploma Brown 11th Grade, he is working towards his Black Sash.
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Si-Jai Lena Lenskaya
Helping you stay confident and ready
Lena has been training with the club for near in 8 years now and has achieved high ranking in other arts such as Krav Maga ( instructor level) and Boxing. She has been training Wing chun and now for 4 years and working towards the Internediate grade levels.Lena is enthusiastic and hard working , looking after new members and helping them to feel welcomed .
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She helps run the gym and works hard keeping it tidy, also helping when needed with the admin work behind the scenes .
Lena loves martial arts training, and baking, making cakes to a proffesional standard !
Together, we train minds and bodies to stay strong, aware, and ready.
The professional approach to learning art of self defence.
At Gutter Wing Chun Our team is made up of highly trained self-defense professionals who bring years of real-world experience to every session. We take pride in our discipline, precision, and commitment to helping each student feel confident and capable. Every class is designed to give you the best possible experience — safe, practical, and empowering.