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CONTRIBUTORS<br />

CATHERINE BIRMINGHAM<br />

NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN<br />

Catherine Louise Birmingham is an internationally acclaimed dressage trainer and coach. Her career spans<br />

over Germany, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Jakarta. She is the author of two books – “Ride<br />

for Life - The Three Golden Principles for Riders” which is available in English, Danish and Italian, and<br />

“Just Be You - Transformation and the Gift of Fear”. Catherine speaks at prisons, businesses and riding<br />

establishments on healing, growth, fear and awareness.<br />

WEBSITE: http://catherinelouisebirmingham.wordpress.com<br />

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/catherinelouise.birmingham<br />

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-louise-birmingham-424a3a28<br />

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHORhUZpDNoDFmd-hCQcog?view_as=public<br />

TOKEY HILL<br />

NATIONALITY: AMERICAN<br />

Recently sworn in as the Director of Coaches for the first U.S. karate team to compete in the Olympics<br />

(2020), Tokey Hill began his illustrious athletic career by becoming the first American to win the World<br />

Karate Championship in 1980. A six-time National Karate Champion, winner of a bronze medal in the 1981<br />

World Games, the Olympic Coach of the Year for his role in 1999 Pan American Games, owner of three<br />

‘Team Tokey Hill’ karate schools and the current Chairperson of the Arnold Classic Worldwide Combative<br />

Sports Festival. Hill is the undeniable leader in American Karate, who is dedicated to helping those<br />

most vulnerable in society. Tokey Hill has designed self-defense classes for the blind, supports karate<br />

programs for the autistic and teaches upper-level karate students how to assist Team Tokey Hill<br />

classmates with disabilities. Following in his footsteps, four of his children have achieved National<br />

Karate Championships titles.<br />

WEBSITE: www.arnoldsportsworld.com<br />

WEBSITE: WWW.teamtokeyhill.com<br />

CAM TRACEY<br />

NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN<br />

Cam tells us he has been lucky enough to spend the last 12 years of his life travelling, living in multiple<br />

countries across the globe (currently Azerbaijan) and has combined travelling with some of his other<br />

great passions; BASE jumping, paragliding and speed-flying, in approximately 28 countries on 5 of the 6<br />

inhabited continents. In the words of Cam ‘Being fit is a choice of lifestyle, not spending an hour at a<br />

gym every day.’<br />

WEBSITE: Camtracey.com<br />

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/basejumperswithoutborders<br />

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9MEsTH-2mz2HwsB84LOMwA/videos<br />

ISSUE 5 VOLUME 1 Page 7

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