Hi all, I'm a purple belt at Roger Gracie Academy in Darlington UK.

I was promoted to purple belt in August this year during a seminar from Oscar Guigala from RGA HQ in London, pre covid I trained under Lee Kirtley part of Team ZR under Alan Pozzo who promoted me to blue belt.

I attended the winter camp in Wargrain, Austria prior to that promotion In Jan 2018 and the Bournemouth Camp in 2016.

I started training mainly in a MMA setting in 2012 just after my 30th birthday under Ian "The Machine" Freeman but this was all nogi for MMA. It wasn't until in 2013 when I was working away in Kircaldy where I met Darren Clarke (now GB Kircaldy) who awarded me my first stripe as I had nobody to grade me.

Thank you to anybody who takes the time to read this & vote for me.