The Motivated Martial Artists

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to Three-Time world Champion and club owner Hazel Bracken. 

Hazels martial arts journey started in karate at the age of 5 and lasted until she was 15 but she found karate wasn't for her, it was 6 years later at the age of 21 that she found her true love for martial arts in finland on a work placement looking at prostate cancers when she found a taekwondo club, after it being recommended to her at christmas party, she stayed with the finish taekwondo club until she was a yellow belt and carried on training when she came back home to scotland and still does to this day!

One inspirational story hazel tells is when she won her won her third World Championship title. Just three weeks before the championships Hazel felt a sharp pain in her foot, but thought nothing of it. A week later, she felt the foot getting worse so had it checked out, only to find out her World Championship aspirations were in jeopardy as she’d broken a foot bone. Despite strong warning from her doctor not to take part, Hazel decided to head to Birmingham to fight in the World Championships and won her third world championship title against all odds. 

Tune in this week to hear more inspiring stories like the from one the the most feared heavyweight women in the TAGB

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to Four times TAGB World Taekwondo Champion and personal trainer Micheal Parchment.

 Michael began his martial arts career in Judo before eventually getting into Kung Fu and Karate for a couple of years learning moves to  protect himself against the usual bullies at school.  Michael began his TaeKwonDo career after seeing a TKD fighter on TV, performing a kick jump over a sports car.  Starting the next day, he was on the lookout for a Tae Kwon Do club and he found one fairly close to his house. It quickly became a regular habit. First, twice a week, then four times, and after that nearly every day of the week and he was thirsty for medals. But Tae Kwon Do also taught him to set goals, to get out of his comfort zone, and to always go beyond his limits.

Michael decided to retire from Tae Kwon Do, met his future wife and moved to Norway. He started a job as Fitness Trainer where he coached a boxing group. After his group learned about who was coaching them, many of the members actually wanted to learn Tae Kwon Do. Michael was happy to help! He set the goal to make them successfully participate in competitions and he actually managed to coach all 12 members of his group to win a medal in the upcoming competitions. This arrangement went on until the World Championship came up and his pupils convince Michael to take part as a fighter one last time. To his own surprise he won his 4th World Champion title – this time under the flag of his new home, Norway.

Michael talks about his  first experience of competition and his first experience with loss something that changed him forever. Not that he wanted to give up but actually making him stronger, thirsty for more, and more dedicated: “I saw these guys standing on the podium higher than me and I just knew: One day this is going to be me!”

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to 7th degree Martial Arts Master, Author and Instructor Karen Eden Herdman.

Karen eden is a 7th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do an achievement that took over 30 years of dedication and hard work making her one of a very few women to have the rank of Grandmaster in the world! 

She is most well known in the industry for her inspirational writing appearing  in every major martial arts magazine in the USA and the world, including six magazine covers of her own.Her ability to turn everyday struggles into life lessons started in the martial arts industry over 20 years ago, where she became known as the “Master of Inspiration.” Karen has written 4 books and writes two karate columns a month for MASuccess magazine and Taekwondo Times magazine. Her poem “I Am a Martial Artist” spun off an entire product line which has successfully sold around the world (Copyright Century Martial Arts.) She has since produced 3 product lines including “I Am a Martial Artist” and “They Call Me Master (copyright Century Martial Arts.”) Her third line “Dojo Darling” / “Dojo Disciple” wear was created to give struggling kids something to wear when they couldn’t afford a uniform.

Karen also talks about her work in two major Hollywood productions, including stunt work in Van Damme’s “Sudden Death,” and a feature role in “Sworn to Justice” tune in this week to hear some inspirational stories from a woman whose dedication and hard work will be sure to motivate you today !

This week the Motivated Martial Artists, Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to MMA fighter,  hard working athlete and welterweight prospect Nathan Jones.

In this week's episode Nathan talks about how he got into martial arts and how it progressed from a pass time to a professional career, talking about the extraordinary journey that martial arts has taken him on including his travels to train in America and his successful competitive MMA career where he is currently ranked 19th of all active UK/Ireland Pro Welterweights.

Nathan also talks about his hard work within the community utilising his role model position and mentoring skills as well as experience from being a youth worker to help inspire kids and to help them grow and mature and be successful in all aspects of life.

Tune in this week to hear some inspirational stories and stay motivated!

This week the Motivated Martial Artists, Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to Simone Blood one of the most successful point-fighters & Light contact fighters to come out of South Yorkshire. 

In this episode Simon talks about his success in competitive sparring and how he has won multiple British & International titles as a points fighter and winning even more when he switched to Light contact remaining unbeaten ever since.
Simon's roots are firmly etched in Tae Kwon Do but he has proved he is a versatile martial artist able to switch to fight any style.

Tune in this week to hear about Simon's life experience and some of his  inspirational sparring tips and tricks to achieve greatness.

This week the Motivated Martial Artists Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to 3 x World Kickboxing Champion turned Action Actor Nathan Lewis

Nathan was born in the Uk and raised in jamaica before again moving back and finding his passion for martial arts in 1977. He is now a professional kickboxing champion and a Lau Gar martial arts teacher as well as being a actor with starring roles in films including : The Legend of Tarzan , Kick-Ass and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword .

Nathan tells the podcasters about his martial arts careers in Lau Gar Kung Fu, kickboxing and karate and some of the lessons he learned both from a young age and in his experience through the years and traveling the world.

Tune in this week to hear these inspiring stories 

This week the Motivated Martial Artists, Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to old friend and training partner Stuart Mangili.

In this week's episode hosts Jackie and Gavin talk to their old friend Stuart about their fond memories and growing up as fellow martial artists from a very young age.
Stuart talks about his progression through different types of martial arts and even talking about his experience working with some very high up martial artists over in Japan!

Make sure to tune in this week to hear some amazing inspirational and motivational stories from Stuarts experience around the world!

This week the Motivated Martial Artists, Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to internationally recognised writer, motivator and Tang Soo Do black belt Andrea Harkins (AKA "The martial arts woman")

In this episode Andrea takes us through her journey as a motivational speaker, writer, martial artist and business woman trying to empower and inspire other woman around the world with her work.

Andrea tries to motivate others on winning life’s everyday challenges. She believes it does not matter if you are a martial artist. Every person is capable of igniting their personal power, wisdom, and grace, with compassion and spirit, just like a seasoned martial artist.

Her mission is to help others live positive, happy, and powerful lives.

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This week the Motivated Martial Artists, Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to  retired British professional kickboxer, Founder of the International Freestyle Association (IFA) Kickboxing Club, Co-founder of KTF Academy and former four-times world champion Kash Gill. 

Kash has a very impressive collection of British titles , European titles and World titles and  he was the first UK Asian man to be a world champion in a contact sport becoming a four times World Kickboxing Champion, an achievement that has never been beaten. 

Kash found his love for kickboxing at age 14 when he saw a demo in a local park. Kash then went down for a few trial session and ended up falling in love with contact sport. He believed at  14 that he was going to be the world champion and he followed that dream through lots of hard work blood and sweat until it came true. Following your dreams now being his message that he still preaches to this day! 

This week the Motivated Martial Artists, Jackson White and Gavin Cook talk to MMA fighter, Taekwondo 4th degree black belt, Brazilian jiu-jitsu blue belt. Personal trainer and Kickboxing Coach Jade Barker. 
 
 Jade Barker is one of the South coasts most gifted fighters, starting in Taekwondo at a young age and taking a natural love to martial arts. After Taekwondo she moved on to MMA and jiu-jitsu witch was the spark to her martial arts teaching and MMA fighting career. 

Jade Barker fought in Strawweight with 2 wins on her record before going through a difficult through years out of fighting. But after pulling through the difficult times jade managed to get back into the gym training and was itching to compete where she  then was going to take on on Claire Lopez at Shock N Awe 31 but because of covid missed out. Jade will not give up tho and cannot wait to get back into the ring fitter and better then ever.