Coming from a martial arts family, Kenneth's journey began at quite a young age. He has experience and success competing at the highest level in multiple martial arts. Such as ITF Taekwon-Do, WT Taekwon-Do and WKF Karate. In ITF Kenneth is a 2x World Cup Champion, in WT he represented Jamaica at the London Olympics in 2012 and in Karate he is hopeful of qualifying for the Olympics in Tokyo through the Paris qualifier. Today I chat the Kenneth about his journey through multiple sports, the Olympic experience, his thoughts on ranking/seedings in ITF and more!

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Ryan has been training in martial arts since he was 4 years old. He has represented Canada in both taekwon-do and karate. In taekwon-do he is a 3x World Champion winning gold in 2015, 2017 & 2019. As a karate competitor Ryan is hopeful of qualifying for the Olympics in Tokyo later this year. Today I chat to Ryan about how he got started in martial arts. the highs & lows of top level competition, the similarities/differences between taekwon-do and karate styles, the different scoring systems in patterns and more. 

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Andy is the Owner & Head Coach of Team Ryano. He is a black belt in Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Andy is also widely recognised as a pioneer of MMA & BJJ in Ireland. As a competitor Andy was a highly successful Judo player and fell just short of qualifying for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. In Jiu-Jitsu Andy has been a European Champion, a Pan-American Champion and a World bronze medalist. As a coach he has trained some of the top MMA fighters in Ireland like Paul Redmond, Neill Seery and Myles Price. Also, Andy is a coach of the Irish amateur squad that competes at IMMAF events and he speaks very passionately about these events in the show. Today I chat to Andy about his own journey, where he see amateur MMA going forward, the buzz of coaching at big UFC shows and the improvement in MMA coaching in recent years. 

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