Damon Goodson
A DETERMINED amputee is celebrating after kicking ass in a martial arts competition — despite having only ONE LEG.
Brave Damon Goodson, 26, can execute moves including Indian death locks, the outside parry and scissor choke holds, even though he had his right leg amputated in 2003
He can even kick-box using a special technique developed by his instructor where he balances on his prosthetic leg, to prevent it FLYING OFF.
The NHS health trainer lost his lower right leg to cancer at the age of 19.
But he refused to be beaten, took up mixed martial arts in 2007 and is now a jujitsu blue belt competing against able-bodied fighters.
Damon now spends 12 hours a week in training.
On Saturday he reached the fourth round of the Wakarishin and Kokoro Kai International before being knocked out by the eventual bronze medallist.
Damon, from King’s Lynn, Norfolk, said: “Being an amputee does make it a bit difficult.
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“When you are on the floor and grappling you need to be able to bend but I haven’t got that sort of flexibility.
“When it gets sweaty the bit that holds the leg on can slip off, which must give my opponent a bit of a shock.
“I want to show that having a prosthetic limb does not have to hold you back.”
Damon’s trainer Master Dell Mann, of the Cobra Academy of Kickboxing, said his student was a role model for other amputees.
He said: “I have adapted some of Damon’s skills. He has shown that people with a disability can do it as well, if not better, than anyone else.”
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