About Lea Ward
Channel: Elite Level Striking
Date: 2021-03-15

I have been a professional full-time martial arts instructor and personal trainer for most of my working life and I have been training in a variety of martial art styles since a very young age.
I originally began my training back in the early 80’s when I was still in single figures after being inspired when playing old school video games such as Kung Fu Master, Double Dragon and Street Fighter 2 in the Arcades. Starting with grappling style combat systems and later moving onto striking based styles such as Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Jeet Koon Do and many others. My training has been varied and diverse and I continued working in this way throughout my teenage years and often trained 6 different martial arts throughout the week as well as acting as an assistant instructor at the age of 13 and then starting to teach my own classes from the young age of 17.
Unfortunately, due to a medical condition that causes me to suffer from occasional seizures (which I have now finally gained some control over, using special glasses) I was denied the opportunity to demonstrate my skills in a competition environment, so, instead of admitting defeat, I wish to pass on the skills I've acquired to the next generation of athletes. In the time I have been acting as a coach I have seen many students advance through their gradings, gain confidence, land their dream jobs, go on to teach their own classes and even bring their children to train with me as they did when they were young.

Outside of martial arts, I'm a huge fan of retro video games, awful Ninja movies and I also like to create my own chiprock music under the name Dirty Clide.



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Gym: Wolfpack Fitness Cheshire
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Music Dirty Clide
https://dirtyclide.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/dirty-clide
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www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Phh6u0qHtK5sdOczacKFA