Graham Lelliott began his Karate training in 1974 on the Island of Jersey. This is the largest of a small group of Islands in the English Channel, collectively known as the Channel Islands and the place where Graham was born in 1948.

In 1977, he received his Brown Belt from Professor Rainer Schulte who was Mr. Parker's European director at the time. It was under Professor Schulte's watchful eye that he progressed to his Black Belt promotion in November of 1980. He is proud to recognize Professor Schulte as his primary instructor through his early years as a Black Belt.

He is one of only three Europeans who were physically tested and promoted by Senior Grand Master Edmund Parker from 1st to 4th Degree in Europe, these promotions were 1st Black 1980, 2nd Black 1982, 3rd Black 1985, 4th Black 1989. The other two being Professor Christian Springer and Professor Gary Ellis.

He was promoted to the status of First generation Black Belt when Mr. Parker signed his 4th Degree certificate as his instructor. This is something he is exceptionally proud of.

Graham was subsequently tested and promoted to 5th Degree by IKKA in 1993; board members included Professor John Sepulveda, Gilbert Velez and Andre Simms in 1997 he was promoted to 6th Degree by the AKKS in Las Vegas. He was promoted to 7th Degree by Lee Wedlake in Fresno CA April 21st 2006.

He operated his own school in Jersey for over 20 years, and has around 30 Black belts directly under his lineage from Jersey alone. He also has several Black Belts from Spain and Sweden on his family tree. Many of his Black Belts now run successful schools around the world including Jersey CI, England, Sweden, Spain, New Zealand, and the USA.

Graham, who is considered to be among one of the top Kenpo instructors in Europe, has travelled throughout the world teaching seminars in Spain, (where many see him as a father figure) Germany, Ireland, England, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. He has also received many invitations from as far away as South Africa and Chile as well as many other European countries, but had to decline or put on hold due to limited time off while holding down a full time job and his eventual move to the United States in 2001.

He was the Channel Islands Kenpo Karate Federation representative to the IKKA, and later the representative for the AKKS. Graham was also the first European to teach at Jeff Speakman's Las Vegas Camp. He has officiated at 7 International championships and was instrumental in organizing the 1994 AKKA European Internationals and the 1998 AKKS European International.

Graham has also appeared in several magazines in Spain and was on the front and center pages in one, which also featured an article on Mr. Parker and Mr. Frank Trejo.

He has trained with or taken instruction from most of Mr. Parker's prominent Black Belts and lists these instructors as close friends who have influenced and guided him at some stage during his journey in Kenpo. They are, in no particular order; Larry Tatum, Richard “Huk” Planas, Lee Wedlake, John Sepulveda, Rainer Schulte, and of course Senior Grand Master Edmund K. Parker.

Graham now lives in Clovis, a small city adjacent to Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley in Central California. With the help and support of his wife Jaydean, he has now opened his own school in Fresno, CA ironically where Grand Masters Steve LeBounty, Tom Kelley, and "Huk" Planas once ran a school together. Although they are just about the toughest act you could ever want to follow, he is very excited with the challenge ahead and the great friends new and old who encourage him to follow his dream to teach and be a student of Ed Parker's Kenpo Karate.