Coaches are more than just teachers of practical skills on how to fight. They are role models and mentors and can have a huge role in not just building fighters, but in building healthy people and communities.
Level Up is a coaches and fighters workshop with a difference.
Level Up will be equipping coaches and fighters with new skills for the cage and ring, as well as knowing best how to talk about mental health, role model healthier ideas and conceptions of masculinity and become leaders of culture change within their communities.
The workshop is catered, with ticket prices including morning tea, lunch and an afternoon meal. Parking is available onsite.
Please bring your training gear to partake in drilling, and appropriate changes of clothes.
Kai Kara France UFC ranked number 8 in the fly weight divison, Kai Kara-France will be sharing some of the skills that have seen him rise to the top in the UFC. Fighting since he was just a boy, Kai has a life time of knowledge at the elite end of mixed martial arts to share with particpants. Lolo Heimuli is a trainer of champions. For decades he has produced and trained world class athletes such as Ray Sefo, Jason 'Psycho' Suttie, Jayson Vemoa, and worked with countless others such as Mark Hunt and Shane Cameron. Lolo has trained 3 generations of fighters in boxing, kickboxing Muay Thai and MMA, and will be teaching striking techniques applicable for any situation. Sunz Singh is the strength and conditioning genius behind the likes of Israel Adesanya, The All Whites and other elite athletes. He will be sharing his knowledge on how to prepare fight sport specific strenght and conditioning programming.Peter Thorburn, a man who turned his life around after jail to become a leading drug, alcohol trainer and mental health trainer will teach participants how to best talk to people who need help about mental health and alcohol and drug issues. Former champion Muay Thai fighter, coach and mental health and anti-family and sexual violence campaigner Richie Hardcore will share his experience and evidence based ideas about how we can change our limited view about what it means to be a man that lead to so many suicides, substance abuse issues and epidemic rates of family violence in our communities.Doors open at 8:30am for a 9am start.
