Darryl Canham

Darryl is a martial arts practitioner, performer and coach, a strength and conditioning coach and trainer, as well as an occasional action performer in Film and Gaming industries.

After a successful career in advertising and marketing, his passion for physical health, fitness and personal performance led him to found the Kaizen Centre in Birmingham. 

Here over the last 10 years he has enjoyed great success in improving people’s performances as martial arts athletes, their physical conditioning and moving them into resilient states of physical health and beyond the injuries that high performance athletes get from time to time. 

As a physical trainer, Darryl has over the years, through referrals and reputation, rehabilitated many people and athletes back to peak performing abilities. His strength and conditioning accreditations go back over 25 years, so his experience as a coach has great depth. 

Darryl has been developing an innovative practice of working with dancers to build and ensure optimum physical and mental wellbeing throughout rehearsals and performance. This has seen Darryl regularly working with professional dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet, Linden Dance Company, Elmhurst Ballet School, Kings International Ballet School, Tring and other international leading professional and pre professional companies and schools.