Shifu Kanishka Sharma is a member of the Shaolin International Association. He began training at the Shaolin Temple in 2001. He has trained eminent Bollywood personalities such as Shah Rukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Boman Irani, Priyanka Chopra, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit and Abhishek Bachchan and has choreographed action sequences for projects such as 'Don', '24: The series', 'Gulaab Gang', 'Game', to name a few. Apart from Bollywood, Shifu Kanishka has been actively involved in training the Indian Armed Forces, training them in the deadly art of Pekiti Tirsia Kali - a Filipino martial art and in-fighting combat system against multiple opponents based on the use of blade.