If something is coming my way, I will now meet it head on, whereas many years ago I would have crossed the road to avoid it.ĥ.) Can you tell us more about your organization KSK? Training has made me a more confident person, I was always quite quiet and shy, (and still am in some respects) and hated any kind of conflict, nowadays I just take things as they come.
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After the first few unsuccessful attempts I placed in most of these for several years, although I had been competing since I was a 4 th kyu, I don’t think I reached my full potential as a fighter until I was a 2 nd dan.Īs an interesting aside I was talking to Gary Chamberlain at last years British Open, and we discovered that Gary had refereed me in the British Open the first time I fought there! ( I think that was in 1842! ), incidentally I was knocked out cold that year!Ĥ.) How has your training enhanced other parts of your life? I fought at the British Open in Crystal Palace a few times, and many of the British Regional tournaments, but most of my fighting was at the tournaments run by Bernard Creton’s association, which was called by now “Karate Jutsu Kai”.
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My own instructor wasn’t a knockdown fighter, but he trained me very hard. Over the years I fought in many tournaments, one or two clicker tournaments (I was crap at clicker) and then I discovered knockdown. My influences were my instructor and the top instructors in the association at that time, guys like Rick McElroy, John Wilson, Mark Simmons, Albert Burton and of course Bernard Creton.Īlbert Burton was a great kata bunkai Instructor, and is probably the reason I like kata so much now.ģ.) Did you compete in the tournaments? Any good stories? I continued to go to the summer camp almost every year after that, I think about 6 of my grades were achieved at summer camps, including my 1 st & 2 nd dan’s. My teacher was Sempai Wayne Mortimer (now Shihan), a very strong and uncompromising instructor, I got on well with him and we used to do extra training at work (out of sight of the bosses!) I was probably doing about 16 hours a week of karate at that time, and also went to associations summer camp in Denmark that first year and met and trained under Sensei Bernard Creton (now Hanshi), that was the hardest week of my life so far, but again, I loved it.
I was immediately hooked.Ģ.) Who were your teachers and/or influences?
When I moved from Scotland to Wales in the early 80’s I started working on construction sites and one of my colleagues had just passed his 2 nd dan and was opening up his first dojo, so I joined as one of his first students. My time was taken up as a teenager playing in bands, I was a drummer in several bands and playing 6 or 7 nights a week (as well as my daytime job). I always fancied being a martial Artist, I used to love watching MA films, I must have watched “Enter the Dragon” a dozen times (or more) in the 70’s (mind you I wanted to be a Cowboy before that!) but I was never in the right place at the right time to get involved. (Iain on the left and brother Wullie on the right)ġ.) How did you start training in Martial Arts?
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