Colleen Beal began training with Mick in 1996 when her children started at the gym in the youth program. A casual interest soon led to an obsession to become one of the few female black-belts in Mu Gen Do and Gan Teora. She earned her black belt in a grueling 7 hour test under Grand-master Joe Canning of Ireland in 2000. She became an internationally certified Kickboxing and Muay Thai judge in 1999, and shortly thereafter accompanied the National team and judged Ireland versus the United States in Dublin Ireland. She has been teaching at the gym since 1999.