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MEGA OFFER 
JUST £1 
Strictly Women’s Only classes

 

We have just opened up some new spaces, so are inviting you for a trial class, for £1 only.

If you’ve been wanting to try Muay Thai but felt a bit overwhelmed at being the newbie, then this class is perfect for you, as you’ll all be there for the first time!

New Locations:  Fulham, SW6 7EU & Manor Park E12 6AF

Location Fulham, SW6 7EU
Start Date Sunday 26th Feb
Time 4.15 pm
Duration 1 hour
Price £1 special offer
Availability 16 spaces
How to book:  Book Now! 
Location Manor Park, E12 6AF
Start Date Monday 27th Feb
Time 7pm
Duration 1 hour
Price £1
Availability 16 spaces
Booking  Book Now! 

What will I need?
As this is a beginners course we urge you not to rush out and buy equipment from local stores, as firstly you won’t be able to use it in our classes, but also because it might not be suitable for Muay Thai.
You don’t need to bring anything but a bottle of water to your first class, however if you already think that you’d like to continue, then you first investments should be and if you wish to order the link is here:

Hand Wraps
Ankle Supports
Gloves
Focus Pads

We can’t wait to welcome you to your first class and are here to support you on your journey,

Keep inspiring as you never know who’s feeling inspired by your choices,

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We are so excited to have joined forces with Combat Collective and Kaz Crossley to offer 4 weeks of women’s only Muay Thai in an all female environment. So if you like the sound of learning some awesome moves and having the opportunity to meet Kaz Crossley at one of the sessions, then sign up now before the places go!

To book on just click ‘book now’ below, next to the location you’d like, the sessions run once and week for 1 hour, and are super fun, welcoming, and perfect if you’d like to try Muay Thai for the first time with other like minded women.

Locations available:
Birmingham and Milton Keynes

Location: Milton Keynes, MK1 1ED – Only 4 spaces left
Start Date: Tuesday 12th July
Time: 7pm
Price: £60 for full 4 weeks
How to book:  Book Now!

Location: Birmingham, B19 2XN – Only 2 spaces left
Start Date: Sunday 10th July
Time: 10am
Price: £60 for full 4 weeks
How to book:  Book Now!

 

Want your child to join a club and class dedicated to fun, fitness and wellbeing? Then look no further as on Sunday 22nd May we are holding our FREE Ninja Open Day in Milton Keynes! 

 

It is running from 10:30am-12:30pm for children aged 4-8 and lets them try our fun, physical and fantastic children’s gymnastic and Muay Thai classes! Drinks and snacks will also be provided so it’s a win-win for you and your child. 

 

Our classes are designed to help teach children a sport and learn valuable life skills whilst also having fun and making friends, all integral parts of a child’s development. Our instructors ensure that each child is having fun, feels comfortable and not only committing to the sport but also committing to themselves. 

 

Click HERE to book your child’s free place at our fun open day! We look forward to seeing you there and creating some fun memories.

Did you know that there are 6.5 million carers in the UK? 800,000 of them are young carers aged 5-17 years old. Whilst navigating their own life, growing up, attending school and trying to be a kid, they are also caring for another person full time. It is a full-time job that is placed upon young shoulders who sometimes are not offered the rest bite and help they require and need.  

 

Which is why we are excited to announce that we have teamed up with MK Carers to offer young carers free Muay Thai classes at our Safari Health Hub located in Bletchley! 

 

Here at Safari MMA, we are dedicated to helping the disengaged groups, the groups of people who are overlooked and often forgotten about. We want to equip them and support them in as many ways as we can and one of the ways we do this is through martial arts. 

 

We are currently running our Male Young Carers class on Wednesdays at 6-7pm and Female Young Carers class on Friday’s at 4:30-5:30pm.  

 

Our classes are designed to help carers take the mental escape from always being on, available and putting others needs first. These classes help carers to put their physical wellbeing first by enjoying the physical benefits of Muay Thai whilst also putting their mental wellness first and escaping the endless thoughts that flood their brain by concentrating and focusing on the moves and technique required in MMA.  

 

If you know any young carers who would benefit from this opportunity, please contact MK Carers or us! We look forward to seeing you.

 

 

Free Women's Kickboxing
 

Would you like to try our women’s beginners Muay Thai for FREE?

We are excited to announce that with the support of the Muslim Sports Foundation we’ve been able to open up 150 FREE places, but these will go really fast so make sure you book now if you’d like one.  This course is perfect for anyone who’s never tried something like this before as you’ll be with like minded women all on their own journey’s.

What you’ll get

You’ll get 4 weeks of training, once a week at your chosen location, and we will pay for both your membership and your insurance for you, so it won’t cost you a penny to join!

What else you’ll need

There is no obligation to buy anything for your 4 week course, however if you do enjoy these session and think that you’re likely to continue then you’ll also get 50% discount off of ankle supports and hand wraps if ordered before 1st November.

How to book

We have 4 locations available to choose from, just click on the membership underneath to secure your place, please be aware that we cannot hold places, they will only be secured once you’ve book and there is limited availability.

Milton Keynes, 8th October, Friday’s 7pm (12 spaces left)

Book Milton Keynes Here

Manor Park, 9th October, Saturday’s 3:30pm (28 spaces left)

Book Manor Park Here

Tottenham, 12th October, Tuesday’s 7pm (15 spaces left)

 Book Tottenham 7pm Here

Tottenham, 12th October, Tuesday’s 7.45pm (11 spaces left)

Book Tottenham 7.45pm Here

What will happen after the 4 weeks course?

Don’t worry, you’ll have the opportunity to continue and we’ll even continue to pay half of your membership for you for the next 2 months, so you’ll be getting it for half the usual price!

We can’t wait to meet you, and remember, there’s nothing you can’t do!!

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We are looking for 14 Children and Youth in the Milton Keynes area to take part in a FREE 14 week Ninja Course, where they’ll even get to enter in for their first White Belt achievement in Muay Thai Kickboxing.

We are working to try and help both families and children to stay active and feel part of a group during these challenging times, and have teamed up with Leap to offer these sessions for free.

The sessions are a great way to keep children focused, to work on self-discipline, and keep both mentally and physically healthy whilst learning an exciting new sport.

These places will go fast, and we cannot hold spaces.
We also have 2 other groups available for boy’s youth and adolescent men, training in Muay Thai, which will also be free if you know anyone interested.  All details are below, with links to book.

Please book the place in your child’s name with their details, but be sure to include your details for the emergency contact.  (We are constantly opening new places up and just filled a girls youth group in case you’re wondering why this one is for boys only, the children’s group is for both girls and boys!)

This sessions takes place once a week.

Children aged 4-8
Mondays 1st March 5pm
To book click this link
VT Children Muay Thai Program 2

 

Boys Youth aged 9-14
Mondays from 1st March 6pm
To book click this link
VT Youth Muay Thai Program 2

 

Adolescent Men 15-19
Tuesday from 2nd March 6pm
To book click this link

VT Youth/Men Muay Thai Program 2

We are proud to announce that we are joining the Moving Minds campaign in Milton Keynes to try and keep people physically and mentally active and are giving away:

*16 FREE places for women in the Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire
Live Online Women’s Beginners Kickboxing sessions – 6 week course
*Must be based in Milton Keynes or Buckinghamshire and places will go to first 16 women to book.

2020 has been a tough year for many and finding a way to come out strong and positive during this testing time is hard for many to do alone, so we want to be here to give you some tools to help you, and yes, we’re doing it for free.

These places will go fast, so if you answer yes to at least 2 of the following questions then you are eligible for a FREE place;

  • Did you find 2020 hard, and are keen to make 2021 a positive year?
  • Did your health, physical or mental get effected in the past year?
  • Are you someone who worries about joining a new group, and would benefit from the support of like minded women?
  • Are  you keen to take care of your health but worried about taking the first steps?

If you answer yes to at least 2 of these questions then this is the perfect course for you, as you will be in a regular group of like minded women, all taking that first step to try something new to improve their over all health and well-being.  As this course is live and online, with a fantastic instructor, you can even have your camera switched off until you feel comfortable enough for others to see you.

And what more?  If you find that you really enjoy the course then the option to continue and train in person with your same group is there for you, and if you’re not ready for that step, sessions will continue online!

There are only 16 spaces available and these will go to those first to sign up

Course Booking Information

Course Starts: Sunday 31st January
Time: 11am
Duration: 6 weeks beginners course
Classes: Weekly for 40 minutes
Location: Live online training

To book you can either contact us for more information or you can book directly through the link here.

Safari MMA
07880 550011 Call/Text/WhatsApp
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As we are in throws of another 4 weeks of a National lockdown, it’s seems ever more appropriate to write a Safari MMA blogpost!

If we learnt anything from the UK’s first lockdown, it is that we have all had to learn a new way of life, nothing was as we knew it. At first this was incredibly hard for so many of us, as we were trying to juggle so much change with regards to work, home-schooling, leisure activities and seeing family and friends.  We made it our mission at Safari MMA to create a new way to provide our classes and we spent many late nights making it possible! We enjoyed every small victory win of making this happen, however it wasn’t without its testing times, these were invaluable to us as instructors, staff and a business as a whole as we grew stronger as a team.

We stand by our ethos to unite people from around the world through Martial Arts, regardless of background and culture. We know how important exercise is when it comes to physical and mental health, now living in uncertainty this can have an unwanted affect on all of us in one way or another. This is why we have worked so hard to make sure we can still give you access to all of our Safari MMA classes from your very own home gym via zoom! The UK’S lockdown gave us the opportunity to grow our timetable of classes to! Our weekly schedule now includes Fitnastics, Yoga, Pilates and Kickboxing on top of our Muay Thai classes. I have also used this lockdown to concentrate on my newly launched YouTube channel Khadijah Safari with plenty of Self defence and everyday life tutorials so make sure you check it out, You never know you might learn something new!

One thing we know is that we are all in this together and although there is currently no clear end in sight of these unprecedented and difficult times, we can remain positive that we are all stronger, more aware and resilient than ever before. Lets set ourselves some goals over the next few weeks and come out of this second lockdown with a sense of achievement! What’s you goal going to be?

We’ve got you! Lets do this! 👊

Khadijah Safari

Thai boxing is the national sport and cultural martial art of Thailand. A lot of us, by now, are familiar with the sport, due to its popularity, it has popped up across the social media landscape, over the span of the last decade with mainstream athletes, and fighters training publicly. But the Martial Art we see today, wasn’t always what it appears to be. Muay Thai, was developed over several hundred years ago, the close combat nature of it, utilized the entire body as a weapon in war, hence why it is called the ‘the art of eight limbs’ due to the direct contact between each body part. Several scholars say the true nature of Muay Thai’s history was lost when the Burmese ransacked Ayudhaya, Siam’s capital city in Thailand, during the 14th century.

The way the body is used in Muay Thai, explains the ritualistic nature, you will see trailing into fights that occur in present-day clubs.

To scan the entire body, the hand becomes the ‘sword and dagger’, the shin and forearms are conditioned till they are hard, to act as armour. The elbows to be used on opponents like a heavy hammer if pivoted correctly, the legs and knees, likened to an axe and staff.

The relationship between each body part in combat is so closely interwoven and at one, that the fighter uses each, any, and every part as a way into any opening to defeat the opponent. It is both poetic and deadly.

The great history of Muay Thai dates back to the first army in which employed the combat, the 1238 Sukhothai Era, (the Buddhist years). This is where the first Thai army was formed in order to protect the capital within the city and its surrounding villages, against neighbouring kingdoms and tribes. Soldiers were taught how to use weapons, but also, how to use their bodies as weapons as they used every limb to fight, this was where Muay Thai was born alongside Krabi Krabong. As a result, Muay Thai became heavily interwoven into the fabric of the culture for the early Siamese people, because of being under constant threat of war. The first Muay Thai camps were formed as training centres, where men would train to fight, but also use it as a means to focus, gain discipline, and ongoing exercise. Soon, monks were instructed to teach the combative training, and the wisdom tied to it in Buddhist Temples, so that every generation would be equipped with the power of this knowledge.

This was never an elitist sport, because, anyone could use their body as a weapon if trained correctly. As more of the poor had access to Muay Thai, it then became a requirement for the elite, high class, and royalty to be well trained in the combat, as they believed this would lead to powerful future leaders, with the philosophy that a great who would be able to protect their country if it came to it.

Several generations later, this deeply poetic, philosophy and combative practice, has become a national sport, and form of self-defence for many across the world.  In the early days of Thai training in Thailand, fighters didn’t always have boxing bags and resources readily available, therefore they had to get creative, using banana and coconut trees, rivers, streams, and manual labour as skills to get better at the sport.

A well- known training method was kicking and kneeing Banana trees, because of their soft porous nature.

There was something deliciously poetic, and meaningful about the roots of this addictive sport. There is a timelessness to the beauty of not needing anything, or anyone but yourself in combat, equipment, or weapons. Although we don’t endorse violence, we do encourage our students to use their body, as a powerful tool, to sharpen, and discipline the mind. Knowing that when it comes to fight or flight, when you are in the throes of fear, when we have been faced with a global problem that has forced us all indoors, feeling immobile, that all you need is yourself to get you out. We train you, so that you may learn how to use the tools you already have to battle your own wars. Knowledge is power.

Looking for 10 men in Milton Keynes who want to relieve stress whilst getting super fit, super fast!
START THIS WEEK!
Learn how to combine speed, power, endurance and skill through the explosive art of Muay Thai Kickboxing. 
8 week beginners course.   
When: Tuesday 15th September   

Time: 8pm

Duration: 8 weeks

Where: Broughton Sports Pavilion, Milton Keynes

Price: Buy 1 get 1 half price (for full 8 weeks)

So £60 for 1 person, or £90 for 2.
Text to book your place 07412 993535