05/09/2026
🎉🥋 Celebrating 37 Years of Dedication to UKCKMA! 🥊🎉
This week marks an incredible 37 years of unwavering commitment, discipline, leadership and passion from our Samurai Club Chief Instructor and CEO, Jonathan.
From his early days as a student, to becoming a dedicated instructor, competing at the highest level and achieving the incredible honour of becoming a 3-time European Kata Champion, Jonathan has dedicated his life to martial arts and to the people within UKCK.
Today, he is not only a master of his craft, but a mentor, teacher, leader and friend to so many.
Throughout those 37 years, Jonathan’s passion, discipline and relentless pursuit of excellence have helped shape generations of students and instructors. Through countless classes, gradings, demonstrations, seminars and training sessions, he has continued to embody the true spirit of martial arts — loyalty, courage, respect, discipline and honour.
His dedication is also something that has become part of his family, From meeting his wife Laura, who trains alongside him and is also a CEO within UKCK, while their daughter Freya has proudly achieved her Junior Black Belts in both Karate and Kickboxing through UKCK, and following in his footsteps. 🥋🥊❤️
This truly is a martial arts family, and Jonathan’s influence reaches far beyond the dojo.
Thank you, Jonathan, for 37 incredible years of service, leadership, friendship and inspiration, and supporting myself and Lynn over the years and here’s to many more years of building warriors, developing instructors, growing the UKCK family and continuing to follow the Way of the Samurai. 🥋🥊👊
We’d love for everyone in the UKCK family to join us in congratulating Jonathan! 🎉
If you’ve trained with Jonathan over the years, share a memory, a story, or something he has helped you achieve. Whether it was a lesson on the mats, a grading, a competition, a personal challenge or simply a few words of encouragement — we’d love to hear it. ❤️
From Acka, Lynn, Laura, Conna, all the instructors, students and their families — thank you, Jonathan, for everything you have given to UKCK over the past 37 years.
Here’s to another 37 years with your UKCK family! 🥋🥊🎉👊
