3.dan, Instructor

I joined my first shotokan karate club at age eight, and have loved martial arts ever since then. Moving through many phases and places in life, I trained in many clubs until I came to North Shotokan Karate Acedmy (affiliated to KUGB) in Northern Ireland during my PhD studies, where I found a new level of understanding of the art under the teaching of Sensei Joe McCullough, and graded for black belt in 2008 — twenty years after starting. Since then, I’ve trained and taught with three clubs in Helsinki.