About
Your guide to fitness, self-defense, and martial arts!
No one should have to feel ashamed..
In over 25 years of teaching and coaching children and adults, I have seen so many people working to overcome uncertainty and struggling with self-worth. People who didn’t know if they could be good at anything because they never had anyone patient enough to coach them in a way that showed them they could trust in their own abilities and become good at something.
I’ve been there. Throughout my youth, I tried different activities but had a hard time finding a coach or teacher that really resonated with me and my style of learning.
When I was 13 years old, my parents allowed me to join a martial arts school nearby. It was at this school that I first experienced that moment when someone other than my parents saw my potential and advocated for me. That school is where I found my love of movement and it is where I began my journey into movement education, and later, discovered my love of coaching.
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to have teachers and mentors that have profoundly influenced the way I teach, helping me to provide you with a learning experience that will enable you to get strong safely and to move with ease and confidence. You can trust that your experience with me will be one that is trauma-informed and empathetic, providing you with a supportive environment in which to learn, make mistakes, and improve.
Credentials
- SAFE Violence Prevention & Self-defence Certified Instructor by Founder, Christopher Roberts
- Participant in both Trauma Informed Violence Prevention & Defense Masterclass, & The 5 Principles of Physical Retaliation Masterclass; both directly taught by world renowned Self-defense Experts Richard Dimitri & Pamela Armitage
- Senior Instructor at Kettlebility
- SFG 1 - StrongFirst Level 1 Certified Kettlebell Instructor
- FMS2 - Functional Movement Specialist Level 2
- GFM 1 - Ground Force Method Level 1 Certification
- Student of Steve Smith (Student of Fook Yeung, Dave Harris & Jesse Glover)
- 4th Degree Black Belt under Steve Smith in Fook Yeung Chuan
- Student of Renato Alfonso in Filipino Martial Arts - Visayan Style Eskrima
- Certified Instructor WCD Gung-Fu
- Black Belt in WCD Gung-Fu