Muay Thailand Trip 2023
Club Trip To Thailand Koh Samui October 2023 Two weeks in paradise with punches included, we planned on this being an annual trip after our first visit in 2019 but the [...]
Grading Is Goal Setting
🥋 Gradings Are Goal Setting Understanding Our Belt & Grading System At Function First Martial Arts Lincoln, our grading system is designed to measure progress, build confidence, and teach goal setting — [...]
DD Switch Over
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, [...]
Man up masculinity martial arts
🥋 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 [...]
Amazing Lockdown Feedback
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 Its Time For A Change
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 [...]
Concussion Claims Are Coming
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 [...]
Fuzzy Goals
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, [...]
BLM Lincoln Martial Arts
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. [...]
Feel Like An Imposter?
Imposter Syndrome? Feel Like A Fake? Talking to a lovely lady I was freezing yesterday and she mentioned "Imposter Syndrome" . We all experience this from time to [...]