We Are Changing Our Direct Debit Provider Change of Payment Processor for Direct Debits to Function First From 16/11/2021, We, Function First are changing our payment processor for Direct Debit payments. Our new processor, GoCardless, [...]
🥋 Masculinity & Martial Arts: “Man Up, Buttercup” There’s a lot of talk in martial arts about resilience, toughness, discipline, and standing up for yourself — and rightly so.Those qualities matter. They build [...]
John Will 6th Dan BJJ Coach Is He The Best Coach? Of course ive not trained with all of them so how do I know? But please check out the podcast discussion below, [...]
Amazing Feedback During Lockdown (We Know Who You Are) The following is an email we received from one of our members, such lovely feedback. A darker part of me spots irony, this week's [...]
Self Defence Classes Lincoln This hasn’t been an easy decision, but it's one I have made. It's been an amazing 20 plus years in the self-defence arena, it actually saved my life which [...]
10 Benefits Of Zoom Classes Do Not Underestimate the Benefits of Livestream Classes We were put into Lockdown on a Thursday night in March, by Saturday we were up and running with Zoom [...]
Concussion In Martial Arts What We Are Doing We do not say this with glee, it's not going to be pretty, but we knew this many years ago and we changed the way [...]
Goals Are Good Fuzzy Goals Goals are good, I keep my goals fuzzy and not so fixed in stone, as things change along the way. Don't fixate on the goal, enjoy the process, [...]
Overcoming Adversity Its been a testing time for so many this last few months and we are not over this yet. Many martial arts clubs have closed while many struggle with limited class [...]
Black Lives Matter As Well Shouldn't be controversial, should it? In my twenty-year experience training, martial arts no matter where taught, church hall, professional academy, tin hut, container unit, car park or beach hut. [...]