Career
Coleman began martial arts at the age of 9 by practicing Shotokan Karate. He trained and competed in Karate until the age of 14, earning a junior black belt and winning several competitions in fighting and forms. At 15, he turned his attention to Kung Fu and kickboxing.
After a year of finding his direction in martial arts Coleman began training in London in Wushu and Chinese Woo (traditional kung fu), later complemented by training in San-Shou (Chinese Kickboxing) and Gymnastics.
This took him around the world training and competing in the United States of America, Europe, Malaysia and China. At 21, he decided to focus strictly on Wushu.
Coleman captained the Great Britain Team in 2006 and currently holds national records for Wushu in Great Britain. His first television appearance was on a show called Masters of Combat, aired on BBC2 in 2001.
This was later followed up with an appearance in a documentary This is Kung Fu, also shown on BBC2.
In the 2011 film On The Ropes, Coleman appeared alongside Mark Noyce, Ben Shockley and others in a mockumentary style film about martial arts culture in the United Kingdom.