On a Sunday School outing to the Welsh seaside town of Porthcawl, RJ is ‘roughed up’ by a couple of older boys.
Determined that he will never be physically threatened ever again, RJ joins a judo club run by British Olympic Gold Medallist Alan Petherbridge. Inspired by his mentor, at the age of eighteen, RJ travels to the Far East where he studies Martial Arts for ten years.
RJ returns to Wales where he establishes a chain of clubs called DoJones. Five years later, witnessing a young boy being terrorised by a group of older boys, RJ intervenes. He hospitalises the thugs. Unfortunately all seventeen of them take out Civil Actions, and he is given a suspended sentence for GBH.
Distraught that he has broken the code of honour, RJ returns to the Far East and joins the ascetic Kodo community on the island of Sado where he spends the rest of his life studying the Taiko.
My Imaginary Lives 