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Martial
arts have been a major part of Luke's life since the moment he was born.
Luke's
father, Terry started training in Judo
while at college studying to become a teacher. After University Terry
returned to
country Victoria eager to learn more, however there were little opportunities
to learn martial arts in rural Victoria at this time. In 1973 Terry
finally found a dojo and began training. After a number of years of
very tough training he reached the rank of 1st Kyu, unfortunately
before
achieving his black belt the club closed down. Terry did not give
up however and continued to search for another club to train with.
He finally found him self at a JKA dojo where he started his training
over
again as a white belt. Eventually in 1982 Terry was awarded his black
belt From Sensei Takahashi. 
Luke
was first introduced to the Martial arts by his father at age 5 they
trained together in their
backyard. Then at age 7 Luke was encouraged to attend
Tae Kwon do classes. However this didn't last long as he didn't take
to formal training
that well and instead preferred to continue his training in the backyard.
It wasn't until Luke reached the age of 13 that he joined the same
JKA club that his father had attended 10 years earlier.
Luke took a shine to his new training environment and progressed quickly.
Every spare
minute
was spent learning from books or watching martial arts videos. By
the
age of fifteen Luke was training 6 days a week and 4 -5 hours a day.
Training consisted of running, weights, Karate, Boxing and swimming.
The hours he and his dad spent training together in the shed soon
encouraged Terry to recommence training back at his old dojo. Then
in 1998 Luke
and his dad both graded for their 2nd dan black belts together. Just
as his father past down his teachings to him, Luke plans to continue
the family tradition with his three daughters, Ellyse, Pyper and Maddyson.
Luke
has competed in many Local, National and International competitions.
He is a former Victorian, Australasian, and New South Wales champion
and is the current South East Asian and Oceanic Champion. Luke has competed
in 5 world cups as a member of the national team and has traveled all
around the globe training and learning from some of the top karate masters
available. 
As
well as karate Luke also trains regularly in Tae Kwon do, boxing,
kickboxing, kung fu, jiu jitsu and judo. Luke implements a lot of the training
methods and techniques that he learns from other styles into
his own style
in order to bring the best out of his students.