I left school at sixteen years of age and enrolled immediately into the Royal Navy. I served 5 years in the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman (missiles). I specialised in small arms weapons and was the ships armourer on my last ship. I lived in Gibraltar for two years after leaving the Royal Navy and have worked in civil engineering, building and construction, sales jobs covering everything from perfume to cars and I also worked for a while in the pensions and investments industry. I habe been involved in boxing, kickboxing, martial arts and combat sports all of my life in one way or another. I was seven years of age when I first stepped into a boxing ring with leather boxing gloves on. That was in 1970, I won that fight. I am a 5th dan black belt in kickboxing, a 3rd Degree black sash in Kung Fu, a 2nd Degree black belt in Kenpo Karate and a 1st Dan black belt in Filipino Eskrima (Stick fighting). I have owned my own professional kickboxing school for over seventeen years and have trained many champions at area, national and even international levels. I trained my wife in kickboxing for two years before she entered and won the World Championship for women under 53 kg in full contact kickboxing. I still teach today and we have opened up special childrens kickboxing classes where the emphasis is more on personal development that kicking and punching drills. We are looking to instill discipline, respect and goos manners into the children to help them become goos adults in society. However this is done in a friednly and great fun way for the kids.