Mountain Gate Academy

Jason is the founder of Mountain Gate Academy and lives on the beautiful East Coast of Tasmania with his partner Karen and daughter Evie. Jason teaches Shan Men Shaolin Quan in St Helens and is unleashing Restorative Learning® on the unsuspecting population of Tasmania.

Jason can be contacted on jasonmga@gmail.com

or +613 6376 2994 (Australia).

Below is an outline of his martial arts background.

Shifu Jason Parks
Mountain Gate Academy Level 13
Background Summary
• Started martial arts practice in 1984 until present day – obtained Black Belts in Karate (3rd Degree), Tae Kwon Do (1st Degree) and Internal Kung Fu (1st Degree) but no longer teaches or practices those systems.
• Level 13, Master (Shifu) Instructor Shan Men Shaolin Quan
• Senior teacher of Restorative Learning®
• Master Level Instructor as certified by Shi De Shui - International Wu Shu Institute of Shaolin Disciples, Henan, China
• Master Level Instructor Shaolin Bai He Quan (Shaolin White Crane Boxing) under Master Shi De Chuan – Shaolin Cultural and Lifestyles Association (SCLA).
• Master Level Instructor Shaolin Mezong Qui Fa Quan (Shaolin Self-Revealing Dark Labyrinth Boxing) under Master Shi De Chao – SCLA. Jason was also the Gatekeeper of the system until 2007 when he resigned from the position.
• Took vows (Bai Shi) in 1994, as 32nd Generation Shaolin Disciple of Cao Tung Family. Buddhist name Xing Mu.
• Ordained as Civil-Monk within tradition in Australia in 1999 and exchanged robes (returned to laity) in December 2001.
• Founded Mountain Gate Academy in 2002
• Co-director of St Helens Health and Fitness, St Helens Tasmania

History
Jason Parks started his martial arts training in 1984 in traditional Shito Ryu Karate Do. Although training in many different forms of martial arts and teaching Karate and Tae Kwon Do Jason decided to “get serious” about martial arts study and went searching for masters of Classical Chinese Gong Fu, which had always been his passion. After 14 months of interviews Jason was accepted as a student of Shi De Chao. Shi De Chao was, at the time, the envoy for the Cao Tung Family of Song Shan Shaolin Temple, Henan China. In 1994 Jason received an invitation to be assessed as an instructor and travelled to China where he studied intensively, over several months, with Shaolin Master Shi De Shui. Whilst in China Jason was very fortunate to be introduced to a number of Masters and Disciples of the Shaolin Temple including Shi Su Xie, Shi Su Yin, Shi Su Yun, Xing Do and Xing Jing in particular.
Upon returning from China Jason started full-time teaching in Shaolin Gong Fu and ran the successful Shaolin Disciples Gong Fu Academy in Canberra.
After several years of study and assessment Jason took his vows as a Civil-Monk of the Cao Tung Tradition in Australia and became a live-in student of Shi De Chao in 1999.
In 2002 Jason “exchanged robes” and returned to laity.
In 2002 Jason founded Mountain Gate Academy.
In 2004 Shifu Jason Parks developed the framework of the Restorative Learning® system and started to integrate certain aspects of the Restorative Learning® into teaching and training processes. The results were promising and due to a unanimous response from Mountain Gate Academy members he decided to completely review MGA processes.
Toward the end of 2006 several of the Restorative Learning® practitioners and Jason Parks decided to give the MGA a complete overhaul and to fully integrate Restorative Learning®, its ethics, systems, concepts and tools, into the framework of the academy.
In 2007 MGA evolved to the next level with the development of a new curriculum that was more expansive than before and constructed completely from a Restorative Learning® framework.