I watched Enter the Dragon at the tender age of 9 and started Karate at the local YMCA soon after watching the film.

However the black belt left the club the very lesson before my first so it was run by brown belts, but brown belts can't grade and kids needs gradings!!!! So I left!

I then jumped around for the next few year doing all sorts, till I was about 13 when some guy started to come into my dad's pub. I found out he did karate and he started to take me to his club!

At the time, Sensei did Wado Ryu but moved to a new style of Renshinkai. I trained 5 or 6 times a week for years, stopping only for a few years at about 17, something to do with girls and pubs.

I went back and got my 1st dan grade and carried on training pass my 2nd dan and towards my third when some twat driving a truck hit a car I was in twice and fucked up my back and hips. That was about 12 years ago, for the next 6/7 years my training was on and off, always having to take months out due to injury.

One day another injury hit me and I threw the towel in, i miss it badly!!!!!