Mr Wainwright took over the Borehamwood Academy of Qi Kwan Do in 2009. He has since started the Radlett and Barnet academies and took charge of the Welwyn Academy in 2015, now working with a team of Instructors and Assistant Instructors.

He has been a student of Grandmaster Parisi for almost a decade, and still trains under him at the Hitchin academy.

He has been working with young people his entire adult life, teaching in a wide variety of roles including private tuition, formal education within schools, and volunteer classes on chess, mathematics and computer science.