In 1992, Sensei Damian Vella Lenicker retired from training due to pressing commitments with his academic studies at the University of Malta but not before successfully taking his ‘mock’ grading for 1st Dan. Following his graduation in Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1997 and his subsequent marriage in 2004, Sensei Damian Vella Lenicker took up residence in Balzan, a few hundred metres from the gym used by the B’Kara Karate Club.