JOE BANNON – SURGICAL STRIKE FIGHTING SYSTEM^TM

Dr. Bannon’s extensive history and influence in the martial arts has granted him a lifetime of experience too vast to mention here. As a six time Black Belt Grandmaster inductee into the United States and International Martial Artist and American Police Hall of Fame - his titles in law enforcement, specialized and traditional martial arts and mortal combat training, only begin to describe his illustrious career.

As one of the most highly decorated and diversely experienced law enforcement officers in the nation – a few of his titles include:

• US Secret Service Presidential Protection Task Force Agent
• Special Agent - Department of Justice Anti-Terrorist Unit
• Special Deputy United States Marshal – Fugitive Unit
• Airborne Assault Special Operations Commando
• DEA Undercover Narcotics Task Force Agent
• FBI Witness Protection Task Force Agent
• Police Sergeant / Detective (SFPD)
• And many more...

Roles as a Grandmaster and Master Instructor include:

• Special and Undercover Operations Expert
• Specialized Police Tactics & Weapons Expert
• Government Covert / Black Operations Expert
• High Risk Tactical S.W.A.T. Operations Expert
• DOJ - Chief Defensive Tactics & Combat Instructor
• Firearms / Knife Fighting - Mortal Combat Instructor
• Anti Terrorist & Counter Intelligence Operations Expert
• Certified Executive Protection – Surveillance / Counter Surveillance - Counter Assassination - Special Operations & Private Military Contractor Senior Consultant / Instructor (ESI)

Joe is the founder of the Bannon Institute of Specialized Martial Arts and Holistic Healing Sciences. He is also founder of the Surgical Strike System of Shaolin Dim Mak – Kung Fu.™

The secret Chinese Medicine based martial arts and survival techniques Joe will be teaching at VIP MMA have not been available to the general public until now.

• President George Bush Jr.  
• President Bill Clinton
• Governor Bill Clinton
• President George Bush Sr.
• President Mikhail Gorbachev (Russia)
• Pope John Paul II (Vatican)
• Vice President Al Gore
• First Lady Hillary Clinton
• First Lady Barbara Bush
• Second First Lady Tipper Gore
• Jerry Adams, I.R.A. (Ireland)
• Minister of Finances (Argentina)
• Senator Ted Kennedy
• Governor Pete Wilson (California)
• Lt. Governor Leo McCarthy (California)
• Senator Dianne Feinstein (California)
• Mayor Willie Brown (San Francisco)
• Mayor Frank Jordan (San Francisco)
• Mayor Art Agnos (San Francisco)
• Former Mayor Joe Alioto (San Francisco)
• City Supervisor Tom Ammiano (San Francisco)
• City Supervisor Carole Migden (San Francisco)
• City Supervisor Angela Alioto (San Francisco)
• Presidential Appointee Roberta Achtenberg (Washington D.C.)
• Police Commissioner Wayne Friday (San Francisco)
• Police Chief Richard Hongisto (San Francisco)
• Reverend Troy Perry (M.C.C. Church)
• Attorney General (Mexico)
• Attorney General (California)
  

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