About the Author

My Name is Arriayn Jane Leighton Brechin i am 21 years old and currently Living and training in Inverness.

I was first involved in Martial Arts at the age of 4/5 years old where i attended a local jujutsu club in northern Ireland i trained here till i was 8 years old and managing to reach green belt before moving to Scotland .

Then when I was 14 years old I attended my first Muay Thai club on the isle of skye run by Ali Simpson i had never heard of Muay Thai and did nit really want to go but glad I did and have not stopped training since. About a year into training i did my first Interclub in Stornoway which i enjoyed thats when i new i wanted to fight.

A few months later I entered the Sandee junior Championships (2015) where i was up against a girl from wicker-camp unfortunately it did not go my way it was a good experience that day and saw the level I needed to get to in order to stand a chance against these fighters.

Around this time I also started up Kick-Boxing at the IFA Skye and Lochalsh taught by Antony Davis with the head coach Kash gill (4 x world kick-boxing champion located down in Birmigham Kash would travel up to Skye to grade us every so often i manged to gain my black belt with my time Training with Antony. and entered a few club competitions

At the same time an after school club started at my high school which was MMA Taught by John Bennet it was run through and active schools program i did these classes for just over a year before I left school.

When I turned 18 I moved to Edinburgh for one and a half years here my initial plan was to train at headhunters but instead i found a gym nearer to where i was staying called the Black Diamond Thai Boxing club in Tranent run by Scott Hendry here is where i had my first 4 fights representing this gym.

Then moveing but up north to Inverness I trained with Rung and HMAC I am currently Training with the HMAC.

I will also Travel to sheffield to Train with the wicker-camp when I can for extra training.