Ton Puey grew up studying shotokan karate for 8 years, during his adolescence and childhood, before he started practicing sport fencing in 1995. He did not move to historical fencing until 2002, and around 2004 he started his research into the Spanish fencing style La "Verdadera Destreza".Since then he has been teaching this discipline in different workshops in Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Russia and USA.
Ton is a founding member of Asociación Galega de Esgrima Antigua -Galician Association of Historical Fencing- and a honorary member of the Spanish Federation of Historical Fencing. Ton also belongs to the editorial board of AGEA publishing, and to the European Association Hemac. Currently is Master at Arms of Academia da Espada school, based in the Verdadera Destreza system with the XVI-XVII period weapons.