Gordon originally trained as an actor at the London Academy of Performing Arts where he first encountered stage combat as an acting discipline. Whilst working as a professional actor he continued his stage combat training, serving an apprenticeship with fight director Philip Stafford at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. He then went on to qualify as a certified teacher with both the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat. He now works as a professional fight director for both theatre and film. Recent credits include Richard III, starring Carl Prekopp and Sadie Frost at Riverside Studios and Thomas Kyd's Tragedy Of Soliman & Perseda at the Rose Theatre, Bankside.

Gordon also teaches stage combat at various drama schools across the country. These include East 15 Acting School, where he teaches on the U.K.'s only full time 3 year stage combat degree course, and also Bath Spa University and the London Dramatic Academy. When time allows, he still works as an actor and is a founding member, choreographer and performer with the swashbuckling theatre company, LiveBlades.