OUR TRAINING TEAM
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Professional Muay Thai fighter, personal trainer & sports coach, Greg Wootton has been training and fighting professionally for over a decade (two World titles, European & British titles, ranked UK No.1 in his weight class, medaling for England at World and European amateur championships).
Throughout his fight career, Greg has been fascinated with learning the intricacies of the mind and utilising techniques to increase mental resolve and resilience. He has always believed his mind to be his most powerful weapon. Then, as now, he trains it daily through a combination of meditation, NLP and other psychological skills such as visualization, mantras and reframing.
He currently resides in Loas Angeles where he runs a personal training and coaching business, university martial arts societies, and delivers technique and mindset seminars to muay thai gyms to name a few.
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A Director in Business Process Excellence, Michka Guerrier has worked at a Big 4 Company for 15 years in Paris, London and Zurich respectively.
Despite the demands of his chosen profession, he has always devoted time to sports. While studying economics across three countries, he has also had a keen interest and involvement with sports and philosophy. He believes that these pursuits are just as important to development of the whole. He now shares his knowledge with hundreds of people at a time by developing training concepts for a Big 4 Company.
On any given day he can be found in boxing rings or tennis courts. However, in the last decade, he has favoured mountaineering in the Alps. Michka has always been drawn to activities that challenge him physically and mentally. This has always contributed to creating and maintaining aspects of resilience – not only in private, but also in his professional life.
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Shane O’Neill is a decorated Muay Thai fighter and dedicated coach. He has battled to win multiple titles throughout his fighting career, the pinnacle of which was achieving the European title.
Alongside this, Shane inspires and enables others to reach for the same heights through teaching. In an effort to deepen this knowledge, he has also studied coach education. His passion for coaching has found him undertake various roles including royal life guard, strength and conditioning coach at University College Cork, and even working at the highest level of modern martial arts, the UFC. He is currently a striking coach at MMA Clinic in London.
Shane is a strong advocate for maintaining a cheerful attitude in the face of adversity. He believes that it is through physical and mental training that you can develop incredible resilience to take on any challenge life throws at you. It is a belief he lives by.
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Julien is a technical diver with an engineering background. He is currently splitting his time between India and Mexico working on teaching and exploration projects, but has taught courses and participated in exploration, survey, cartography and photogrammetry projects in Asia, America and Europe.
Quality-oriented, dedicated to team-diving, standardized procedures and the usage of helium to support aggressive diving, he is growing a network of like-minded divers and founded several businesses. A practitioner of Vipassana meditation, he has participated in a number of 10-day retreats and courses throughout his adult life.
Having lived in various European, Asian, African, and Central American countries, his professional background spans from engineering and sustainable development to information technology, languages, and inter-cultural interests, including the publication of several books and articles related to diving, traveling, history and spirituality.
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Sak ‘The Slayer’ is a World Champion Martial Artist with over 25 years coaching experience having trained and fought full-time in Thailand, and Internationally across Europe & Asia.
Sak is now a Fight Coach and Self Defence Instructor based in the UK. Having also spent considerable time in the business world, he is passionate about empowering the corporate athlete, where the world of high performance in sports and business come together.
Sak has previously held senior roles in industry with Accenture, EY, GE & Baker Hughes.
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An Executive coach & Leadership Development Trainer, Sophie Vurpillot empowers conscious leaders to maximize their impact.
Sophie has spent the past 17 years accompanying thousands of leaders from 20+ countries and 50+ organizations from the consulting, tech, finance and social impact sectors in their transformation journey. She has spent the first half of her career in the corporate world, spearheading global transformation efforts at a Big 4 in Paris and in multinationals from the Finance industry in New York City. Back in 2012, she created her own ventures focused on coaching & leadership development training.
She believes that high performance requires strong values and purpose, as well as a balanced mind and body. Her personal routine involves fitness, swimming, running and yoga.
Sophie is a certified ICF coach, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Master Practitioner and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Living and working in the US, France, Spain, Germany, the UK, Chile and Brazil has allowed her to develop a truly global perspective.
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As a psychologist, Sofie enriches our team around the important topic of mental health.
Sofie Bergfeld has been working as a sports psychologist in competitive and elite sports for 10 years and also works as a behavioural therapist in a clinical setting. She has coaching certificates in sport climbing and ski mountaineering and loves all forms of exercise herself, especially in the mountains.
She is primarily focused on building and maintaining her clients’ well-being, self-confidence and resilience. Her methods are varied and range from sports psychology interventions (such as targeted relaxation & activation skills, structured competition preparation, self-talk regulation or visualization) to behavioral therapy interventions and elements of mindfulness based therapy.
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Since beginning kickboxing at 19, Jess has continually pushed herself to progress.
Learning from her early losses, and remaining resilient, she achieved her dream of being crowned a champion, in 2019. She also accepted the challenge of fighting in a higher weight category, to win her 2nd English title, and became a 2nd-degree black belt.
Although she was considered ‘not a natural fighter’, she persevered, to develop the skills, and mindset, to succeed. Jess has been coaching kickboxing for over 5 years, she is passionate about working with women, and prides herself on being a positive role model.
Jess has studied hypnotherapy, she promotes the power of changing our beliefs, and how this can improve performance. She works in schools across England, sharing her message of ‘dream big, start small, never give up’, to inspire future champions, and motivate all children to get more active. Jess is bringing her energy and enthusiasm to corporate teams, as part of her own ‘Big dream’, of speaking on stages, globally.
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Yusuf started his Martial Arts journey by learning Thai boxing in the early 2000s. Along the way, he’s fought professionally in Thaiboxing & Kickboxing, winning British & Intercontinental Titles along the way. The new chapter in Yusuf’s current journey as a fighter, is competing in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA); MMA is the fastest growing combat sport, and amongst the fastest sports, in the world. Yusuf plans to continue his competitive fight journey for years to come, aiming to reach the heights of the sport, and intends to continue growing in & outside of the cage.
Along the journey, Yusuf has honed his calm, methodical approach to teaching Thai boxing to people of all levels, creating a fun, sweaty & educational environment to be in!
Yusuf is also a qualified & practicing Physiotherapist. Yusuf founded The Fighting Physiotherapist (very creative name!) clinic in east London. Despite the name, and interest in working with fighters, Yusuf regularly treats people from all walks of life, with varying activity levels. Adapting to the current world, Yusuf & his team, deliver face to face & online sessions for a range of injuries & conditions