FIGHT FIEND
Dec 23, 2021
4 minutes
As a young child in hospital, there was no Sonic cuddly toy to hold because Sonic didn’t exist yet, and the 1997 general election was the first time I took any real notice of politics. But thanks to my dad, karate was in my life from day one. He’d been training since before I was born and he eventually became an instructor and later a club owner, so naturally that became a family thing. Two of my sisters have earned their black belts, and while I never reached that level myself I had some minor success at competitions in the mid-Nineties, winning a couple of third place trophies
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