Dan has over 25 years of martial arts experience. Since 2001 he has concentrated on the historical martial arts of Europe and America. He gained instructor level in Live Steel Fight Academy under Dave Dickey in 2003. Opened his first school in 2003 teaching English Long and Short sword, Pugilism/Bare Knuckle Boxing, Catch-as-Catch-Can wrestling, Irish stick fighting, German Dagger fighting, Savate Dans La Rue, and Paradosiakos Pagratio. He currently owns Wolfhound Martial Arts/Fight Club, and is the founder of Wolfhound Martial Systems. He also coaches Catch Wrestling at "Big" Jim McCann's Xtreme Freestyle Combat Sports Training, as well as being named the Vice-President of the Russian All-Round FIghting U.S. Federation.