This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to undefeated five time taekwondo world champion World Champion Mr Roger Lawrence.

Roger started his martial arts career from a young age he was invited to join one of his friends lau gar club and later was also invited by another friend to join their shotokan karate club in fear of upsetting one of them Rodger decided to go on his own path and join a taekwondo club after seeing a poster of Grand master Paul Donnelly doing  a jumping kick through a tile board this inspired him to take up martial arts and he hasn't looked back ever since.

He has won five World Championships, seven European Championships and 12 British Championships, while also captaining the England Taekwondo team from 1994-2002.

Roger teaches at the Liverpool School of Taekwondo and the Oldham Taekwondo Academy and has been doing the sport for 34 years. For the last four years, he has been running courses for children aged four and above in Oldham and Liverpool and has visited multiple schools in Saddleworth to teach local children. The Oldham Taekwondo Academy is based at Waterhead Academy and its foundations are “to teach children courtesy, integrity and perseverance through Taekwondo”.

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This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to 7th Dan World Master and renowned fight official and referee Andrew Tombling

Tombling is a Master Instructor at The Official South West of England TAGB and a Master Instructor at Your Taekwondo Schools.

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to Shabir Akhtar  renowned throughout the country as one of the leading Instructors and practitioners of Martial Arts in the U.K.

Shab grew up in Yorkshire and got into martial arts at around 12 years old taking up Shukokai karate witch he did for a year. After a 4 year break from martial arts shab joined a  Lau Gar Kung Fu club at 16 and continued this into his early 20s receiving his black sash and finding his love for martial arts. After he got his black sash one of shabs friends invited him to his tae kwon do club and shab fell in love with the style mainly loving the kicking style. He then decided to switch over to tae kwon do and continued to fight in numerous tournaments winning many titles. While doing all of this shab also fought in kickboxing tournaments and started training in boxing clubs to help his hand speed.

Shab continued his martial arts journey competing and training all throughout his life as well as owning a club and teaching youngsters many different martial arts.

After this shab retired from teaching martial arts he decided to start a business selling martial arts and combat sport equipment for many different martial arts styles as well as trading on the stock market. 

Shab had a real love for martial arts and competing and he talks about many of his amazing journeys around the world competing with the TAGB team and competing in many championships. Tune in this week to hear inspirational stories from a martial arts legend. 

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to legendary Martial Artist and now Entrepreneur / Property Developer Kim Stones!

Kim started martial arts at around the age of 13 and like many others started because of bullying and as a form of self defence against it. He was hooked and was always training in the classes at at home in his garden. His first Taekwondo lesson was a day he will never forget even recalling the date of the beginning of his journey to success in the martial arts world.  

Kim is a 7 times British Taekwondo Champion and world renowned extremely successful fighter holding many titles throughout the years some of his best being in 1991 where he became World Champion & European Golds Fighter of the Year (twice), Along with another one in the British Team in 1989.

Tune into this week's episode where Jackson's talks about Kim being one the the leading inspirational  factors in the beginning of his martial arts journey sharing a motivational moment and showing a real world example of how Kim has inspired others to share his journey and share his love for martial arts!

 This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to  4th Degree Black Sash in Lau Gar Kung Fu, 7th Degree Black Belt in Kickboxing, England Team Coach for The World Kickboxing Council and chief instructor at North West Chinese kickboxing Chris Boughey!

Chris began his martial arts career back in 1977 when he trained in Lau Gar Kung Fu with some of Lau’s finest instructors including Clive Parkinson and Humphrey Broomes. He eventually went on to train for many years with Lau’s founder and chief instructor Master Jeremy Yau.

A move to the North West of England prompted Chris to host many courses with some of the world’s leading martial artist such as Bill Wallace and Joe Lewis. In this way, introducing his students to new approaches as he continued to search out new methods to improve his training and teaching. An approach which continues to this day.

Acknowledged as one of the country’s best heavyweight fighters, Chris has represented his country both nationally and internationally, notching up over one hundred competitive bouts. Chris was a founder member of the now legendary multi –style fighting squad The Warriors who took on every challenge in their own inimitable way.

Chris’ achievements in the competitive arena are well documented in the martial arts press and he is regularly seen in publications such as Martial Arts Illustrated and Fighters both on front cover articles and in his own well received columns Back to Basics and The Learning Curve.

The Association which Chris founded over fifteen years ago continues to grow from strength to strength with well over 150 Black belts taught personally by Chris. Clubs in the region have expanded all over the North West now producing several World Champions within their ranks.

Tune in this week to hear some legendary stories from this martial arts expert!

 This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to 6th degree black belt, motivational speaker and  business owner Kelly Murray

Kelly started her martial arts career at the age of 3 and she carried on growing in martial arts industry (Kelly using the term dojo rat) kelly was introduced to martial arts by family tradition , the rest of her family are also all black belts, and most importantly her father. He guided her through her martial arts journey and even brought her into the business.

Kelly's father who she believed  was a great businessman and an awesome mentor for her as she grew up she began to take over her dad's business slowly taking over his schools as she grew into a confident business woman herself 

But Kelly believed there was more to life and gave it all up to move to new york and persue her career in musical theatre 

After moving and realising the difficulty she saw ad for a kickboxing instructor and took to it based on her martial arts roots she only wanted to take it as a part time job but she fell in love with martial arts again and wanted to progress the female dominance in the martial arts industry. Kelly became a corporate general manager and director of franchise training developing many confidence and business skills after this she decides to travel with her newborn son and husband and ended up settling in costa rica and starting her own coaching and consulting business with all the skills she learned over the years 

 Kelly is a very experienced martial artist over the years practicing Isshin-ryū karate,  kapuwada, kickboxing and tae chi karate winning many championships and having a Unique martial arts point of view

Kelly murray believes she helps create powerful habits that help people align and connect with their deepest joy. she inspires leaders to develop future leaders, and teach people to operate at their highest potential as the best versions of themselves.  

Tune in this week to hear some motivational stories from a very inspirational and  confident woman.

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to Professional MMA fighter US Army Flyweight Kickboxing Champion and Lifelong Martial Artist Jennifer Waters.

Jennifer is a 2nd generation martial artist from Augusta, GA adopting the love for the sport from her father, training in her fathers gym and at home from the age of 3 and has carried on with martial arts for her entire life. Jennifer says she has a passion for sparing from a young age as she was very competitive and loved to win but she also believed the every loss she went though was a learning curve that taught her important life lessons.

She began her MMA career in 2016 with her first MMA fight being anything but boring, it was considered the "Fight of the Night" winning by Unanimous decision after some very intense rounds in the cage!

Jennifer holds a 4th Dan in Tetu Shin Ryu Kempo Karate
1st Dan in MMA 
1st Dan in Kempo-Jitsu
 4th Stripe Blue Belt in RCJ Machado Jiu-Jitsu.  
She owns and operates 2 Seigler's Karate Center locations with her family and is a 2x Kickboxing Champion as well as the CEO of Defensive Training Systems tune in this week to hear some inspiring stories from a awesome martial artist and successful business woman.

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to Clayton Maxcy. Lead Curriculum Developer for SKILLZ and Teacher at On the Mat Martial Arts.

When Clayton Maxcy was young he was a troublemaker and struggled to focus in lots of his classes he tried to take up many different sports like american football and basketball but never took a liking too them and was never passionate about them. Until one day when he was 8 years old in the third grade his dad decided to take him to a martial arts lesson to learn skills like discipline and control, little did his father know this was just the start to Clayton's  martial arts journey. 
 
Clayton is now Lead Curriculum Developer for SKILLZ and Teacher at On the Mat Martial Arts and has had over 12 years of hands-on experience working with kids of all different backgrounds which has allowed him to build out the best drills/games possible for SKILLZ.

Tune in this week to hear some interesting stories and inspiration from very enthusiastic Clayton Maxcy and help to progress your instructor skills.

This week the motivated martial artists will be looking back at a snapshot of all the best bits from The Motivated Martial Artists podcast in 2020 with motivational stories from all over the planet and advice on how to get through this years struggle as we enter a new year of more uncertainty.

But rather then looking back on the year for all the bad things that happened this episode will bring forward some inspirational stories from many podcasts throughout the year hoping to bring some motivation to your life and inspire your to achieve greatness this year and do amazing things.

Happy new year from us at The Motivated Martial Artists and remember to always ask yourself

What Motivates You?

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to 8x world record holder and martial arts master Ian Bishop.

Ian originally started in boxing where he learned the basics of combat and fighting before transfering over to Kung Foo and Lau Gar in his teens where he found his passion for martial arts.

Ian is a Master Martial artist and 8X official world record holder all in fastest punch categories waking him the widely recognized worlds fastest Puncher of all time a title that started as some fun but is now something. ian is extremely proud of.  One of his most impressive world record is the record for the most punches thrown in a second, a staggering 20.

As well as this Ian is a 14x British, international and world martial art Black Belt Hall of Fame inductee, and he formally trained under Kung Fu legend Frank Lynch.

Ian has developed the Transporter street MMA fighting concept, over decades, it's the real world martial art for everyone, simple direct non classical approach, and it is constantly evolving, and very much alive.  It is based on ians 45+ years of training in boxing the martial arts, primarily kung fu, athletics and cross fit. But more importantly the fanatical study of Bruce Lee and his philosophy, techniques, body mechanics and interception method. 
In short Transporter street mma fighting concept is Ians own personal Jeet kune do.