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Lloyd started training Karate when he was 10 years old with Sensei Phil Patrick. Soon after starting his training in Karate he found the dedication that comes with Karate and martial arts. Training up too 6 days a week helped him to achieve his black belt at the age of 15.

Through this time he spent most weekends competing in numerous karate competitions pickingup many medals including a gold in the British nationalchampionship as well as an Irish international gold medal. He also competed in a few world and European competitions in France, Portugal and Cyprus picking up some bronze medalsalong the way. After turning 18 he decided to expand his training andknowledge in different martial arts. Spending some time training in taekwondo he qualified to be selected too try out for the Olympic Taekwondo team for the 2012 London Olympics. After this he started training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (now a purple belt) and other mixed martial arts. After a few amateur contests he competed semi professionally for a few years before a few injury’s set him back from continuing competitions it helped steer him towards giving back by teaching martial arts.

Spending time assisting Sensei Phil in his classes throughout his time in martial arts he started teaching Karate classes of his own 5 years ago. Now at 27 years of age and 17 years of various martial arts experience Sensei Lloyd teaches 9 Karate classes over three days as well as teaching karate in after school clubs.