Stuart is a Senior Instructor within the association and is current Association squad manager. He is an EKGB Qualified Assessor and an EKGB Qualified Referee and Judge. Stuart is also an active Squad coach and Course Instructor.

While it has to be generally accepted, that it is very hard to train for "live" situations, using the teachings of self-defence experts Geoff Thompson and Peter Consterdine, he hopes it will at the very least, make students more aware and give them "the edge" to walk away in one piece!

Iain Abernethy has also had a great impact on the Stuart's perspective, demonstrating an up to date and extremely effective approach to Kata "bunkai" (application). These teachings are introduced to the club on a regular basis and it is hoped will provide the students with a better insight to what karate is really all about.

Stuart has studied a variety of styles during his 27+yrs of training. Starting with Wing-Chun (Kung fu), Wado-Ryu, Higashi, Ju-jitsu, eventually finding the Shotokan style to be most suitable. Chris Martin and Jim Dundon gave him a sound grounding with which to build his budo experience, he then went on to receive tuition at various levels. Stuart has had the privilege of having had instruction by such luminaries as: