Introducing Damien to the team

Just a quick update to let you know we have another instructor joining our team. Damien has been a long time student at EMA and is a 2nd Dan black belt in jiu jitsu and used to teach our Tai Chi class. He also has experience in BJJ and kickboxing too.

Damien is currently a University of Exeter lecturer in modern languages but is reducing his teaching time at university to come on board and teach at EMA and also pursue his other passion — music.

He will be taking over as lead instructor in some of our junior and cadet classes in the autumn as well as teaching a weekly adult jiu jitsu class.

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