Coach
Styles: Taekwondo, Kempo Ju Jitsu, Judo, Muay Thai, Boxing, MMA ,Submission Wrestling, Brazilian Ju Jitsu
Early years
Starting training in Taekwondo at the early age of 6 by the age of 13 I gained a 1st dan black belt . it was around this time that his club began to be coached by Ralph Minnot a former Olympic bronze medalist for Great Britain within a year of steady progression and winning a few tournaments I gained a place in the Junior British Taekwondo Team we went off to fight in Holland at the Dutch open championship the following year I earned my place in the team and gained silver after a controversial defeat in the final of the under 70kg division after this event I dominated all the tournaments i entered leading up to my to the senoir ranks but then was hindered by a foot injury
The Turning Point
It was on the team Bus back from the Dutch open that got me in to grappling arts although I had always fancied some form of throwing art such as judo from watching Martial arts Movies. UFC 1 was shown on the team bus and this completely turned the martial arts world upside down!! there was me a Tkd guy who was quietly confident in his ability begin to worry that if he his skills where effective enough for combat at all? so I began to serch for clubs in my area to train grappling i found a kempo Ju Jitsu and traned there from the age of 16 to 19 after a fall out with the coach I decided to look at Judo and it was here where I found something that looked more realistic and like what I saw Royce Gracie do in ufc so I began to train in judo at derby olympus judo cloub round about this time eventually i managed to gain a brown belt after going through some hard fought battles on the mat at such a great club
Infulances
My training became heavy influenced by Geoff Thompson and also Rick young I read almost every book or magazine article that was published at the time self protection i became my mine priortyi even took up security work to expose myself to poetentail violent situations . Geoff Thompsons books influanced my training because of that I decided to try some full contact striking arts such as Boxing and later Muay Thai boxing for a period of 5 years I had put myself through some solid cross training blood sweat and sometimes tears but it was all worth it as a student and young man in his early 20's i had alot of time on my hands i trained in Mauy Thai and Judo this was the period where I began to mature as a fighter my skills where varied this coincided with the steady growth in popularity of MMA which was made popular by events such as UFC WCC PRIDE CAGE RAGE etc so my training then began to steer towards the MMA style of fighting the urge to train in mma was getting greater i began to look for clubs in m area but at the time there was none
MMA
I already had the cross training in striking and grappling MMA training helped bring these skills together As an off shot of this approach to training no gi submission wrestling became very popular one of the core skills needed for training in MMA I competed in a few submission wrestling Tournaments with some success in recent years. I have trained MMA style for 2 1/2years and with the growing popularity I hope to be able to train and one day compete in MMA which with my current training in BJJ It can only add to my ability now that I don’t have youth on my side.
Starting training in Taekwondo at the early age of 6 by the age of 13 I gained a 1st dan black belt . it was around this time that his club began to be coached by Ralph Minnot a former Olympic bronze medalist for Great Britain within a year of steady progression and winning a few tournaments I gained a place in the Junior British Taekwondo Team we went off to fight in Holland at the Dutch open championship the following year I earned my place in the team and gained silver after a controversial defeat in the final of the under 70kg division after this event I dominated all the tournaments i entered leading up to my to the senoir ranks but then was hindered by a foot injury
The Turning Point
It was on the team Bus back from the Dutch open that got me in to grappling arts although I had always fancied some form of throwing art such as judo from watching Martial arts Movies. UFC 1 was shown on the team bus and this completely turned the martial arts world upside down!! there was me a Tkd guy who was quietly confident in his ability begin to worry that if he his skills where effective enough for combat at all? so I began to serch for clubs in my area to train grappling i found a kempo Ju Jitsu and traned there from the age of 16 to 19 after a fall out with the coach I decided to look at Judo and it was here where I found something that looked more realistic and like what I saw Royce Gracie do in ufc so I began to train in judo at derby olympus judo cloub round about this time eventually i managed to gain a brown belt after going through some hard fought battles on the mat at such a great club
Infulances
My training became heavy influenced by Geoff Thompson and also Rick young I read almost every book or magazine article that was published at the time self protection i became my mine priortyi even took up security work to expose myself to poetentail violent situations . Geoff Thompsons books influanced my training because of that I decided to try some full contact striking arts such as Boxing and later Muay Thai boxing for a period of 5 years I had put myself through some solid cross training blood sweat and sometimes tears but it was all worth it as a student and young man in his early 20's i had alot of time on my hands i trained in Mauy Thai and Judo this was the period where I began to mature as a fighter my skills where varied this coincided with the steady growth in popularity of MMA which was made popular by events such as UFC WCC PRIDE CAGE RAGE etc so my training then began to steer towards the MMA style of fighting the urge to train in mma was getting greater i began to look for clubs in m area but at the time there was none
MMA
I already had the cross training in striking and grappling MMA training helped bring these skills together As an off shot of this approach to training no gi submission wrestling became very popular one of the core skills needed for training in MMA I competed in a few submission wrestling Tournaments with some success in recent years. I have trained MMA style for 2 1/2years and with the growing popularity I hope to be able to train and one day compete in MMA which with my current training in BJJ It can only add to my ability now that I don’t have youth on my side.