I have been taking part in sports since school. Track and field, cricket, football.  After school I continued to play football, I played for Middlesex league as a midfield player with Constantine united football club. At the age of 17, I was introduced to Kung fu and began my training with Whu Shu Kwan in London, where I achieved the rank of the 1st-degree black sash (black belt). After combining martial arts and football for years, I achieved my 2nd black sash in Shaolin kung fu. Also, I competed in Kokshenki karate tournaments in London.

Full contact kickboxing being a new sport in the 1980s my club began to train and compete, and I was ranked 3rd in Great Britain, in the light-middleweight division. Also, I represented Scotland in one of the first European championships held in London. 

I finished playing football in 1984 and continued with martial arts. At the age of 19, I began my coaching career. It started with Shaolin kung fu with one of my training groups in London and in 1989 I was invited to come help coach here in Finland. As the second head coach of SSKF ry ( Suomen shaolin kung fu ry) I coached kung fu, kickboxing, Chinese arts of sanda, kali excrema Filipino martial arts.

Later on, I became interested in the gym. I studied to become a trainer and graduated with a lop diploma. Soon after I developed a training form, called Combat fitness boxing, I was invited to teach classes in gyms around Espoo and Helsinki. 

In 2013 I was given the chance to move back into football, where I work with kids of all ages and received a Coach of the year award in 2017, from my club FC Espoo kasiysi ry.

I continue working with football and mix all my experience in sports into my training. I look for what can be done to improve and develop in speed and strength, and the urge to be better at whatever sport you do.  

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MY PASSION IS COACHING.  

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