John or `Jo Biggs` is a Teacher of Goshin Jiu Jitsu based in Bedford, He teaches a class in the `Castle Road` area of Bedford and assists at a class in Sandy, (a small market town in Bedfordshire).
Jo gained shodan in in the early eighties, and has been teaching Ju jitsu for the past twenty years as well as being uke for several prominent Ju Jitsu Hanshi.
Jo has trained and graded in Aikido, Kickboxing, Karate, and Escrima. He has fought competitively both in Kickboxing (full and semi contact) and sport jiu jitsu and the early full contact stick fighting competitions organised by the A.M.A/S.C.I (1985-1989)
His first class was based in Chelsea, London, with subsequent classes in Camden, Hendon, and Fulham, and Sandy before relocating to Bedford. Many of his students now have there own dojo or clubs.
During the Eighties and Nineties. Jo regularly taught and organised seminars in England, Europe and Canada, He was responsible for organising the Algarve International Festival of martial arts from 1987-1997, He has regularly written for various martial arts magazine and has recently published two books on Martial Arts.
Jo is particularly interested in the healing aspects of the martial arts and sport psychology and now directs the Sacred Spring/ Shinpi Izumi Org there website can be viewed on the web at HYPERLINK “http://www.sacredspring.eu