CO-FOUNDER

Rob started training in boxing and martial arts at the age of 14 and has pursued a life of health and fitness ever since. After over 18 years working in the City, he changed career to helping others improve their health and wellbeing through exercise.

Rob qualified as a personal trainer in 1998 and has since qualified in strength training, speed coaching, nutrition and mace training. In October 2000 he launched the first ever UK fitness class for overweight children, featuring in the national press for his unique approach to overcoming the barriers to fitness faced by many. Rob specialises in core and functional training and has developed a wide range of training methods to help clients utilise their core strength to the fullest.

CO-FOUNDER

Barry has been an active sports person throughout his life with his first love being in gymnastics, trampoline, then karate. He coached gymnastics for many years, and has over 30 years of personal training experience with private clients. For the past 22 years, he has been a popular and creative spinning instructor at David Lloyd gyms. Recently he has been enthusiastically teaching mace in the great outdoors, taking pleasure in pushing people beyond their limits whilst making classes fun.

Barry has had his own bespoke furniture business for over 40 years, but always makes time for rigorous activity, strength and conditioning training, encouraging others to do the same.

MACE INSTRUCTOR, MACE DEVELOPMENT, CO-ORDINATOR & ADMINISTRATOR

Becky is a keen runner and advocate of mace training, in particular relating to strength training for runners. In her spare time she teaches mace classes, organises Mace Masters bookings and helps with the admin. Becky helps to develop new moves with the maces, and can be spotted swinging them around at as many classes as she can get to, often grabbing any interested spectators to have a go at mace workouts.

Becky is a qualified level 2 fitness instructor and England Athletics Leader in Running Fitness.

Becky works as a chef for her day job and has over 16 years of experience in hospitality, previously owning her own cafes and a bar.

PERSONAL TRAINER & MACE INSTRUCTOR, MACE EXERCISE DEVELOPMENT

Ula teaches mace classess and works as a personal trainer. Her interests are boxing for fitness, and functional strength training inspired by Yoga, Pilates and Animal Flow. As part of a Macemasters team Ula develops mace exercises and workouts with focus on strength, cardio and enhancing performance. Together with FitFunActive Ula helps to run regular couch to 5k running courses.

Ula is level 4 qualified in exercises for lower back pain management, level 3 personal trainer and gym instructor, certified Hatton Boxing Academy advanced level, and HIIT, Supple Strength and Kettlebell pro instructor.

In her day job for over 15 years Ula has been working for HMG as a project and portfolio manager.

YOGA MACE TRAINER

Nadeem began his yoga journey 7 years ago after making changes to his life. He qualified with his 200 RYT in Goa, India and then trained under the keen eye of Katarina Rayburn. As well as a yoga teacher Nadeem is also a life, love and intimacy coach.

Nadeem is extremely passionate about the mind-body connection and the way in which yoga can heal and transform us through breath, asana and the spiritual essence held within the practice. His style of teaching is for EVERYONE, and EVERY body - with the focus being one of reconnecting to our bodies, healing our hearts and awakening our souls.

MARKETING DIRECTOR

Nikki has 20 years' marketing experience working across a range of global B2C and B2B brands. She loves nothing more than to help brands grow by putting the customer at the heart of everything.  When she's not geeking out on the joys of marketing, she is attempting to build GI Jane worthy biceps with her mace in the big outdoors.

ADMINISTRATOR

Bee grew up with sports and exercise being an important part of daily life, taking part in gymnastics, ballet and horse riding as a child moving to athletics, javelin, sprinting and hockey as a teenager. Bee enjoys long distance running (5-15km), karate and yoga.

Bee is currently studying History of Art, and enjoys baking in her spare time. She has found exercise a good way to balance her enjoyment of the fruits of her baking, as well as the benefits of feeling physically and mentally strong.

MUSIC PRODUCER

Isaac has always had exercise and martial arts comprising a large component of his life. Boxing from 14, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from 18, Isaac’s thirst for knowledge and discipline has also been sparked by the mace’s ability to awaken primal feelings from simple instinctual movements.

With over 5 years of music production experience, Isaac is a versatile music producer that employs his eclectic taste to suit a range of genres. From Hip-Hop to Classical, Jazz to Heavy Metal, Isaac samples from this wide variety, enabling the mace’s contextual background to come to life, as it is historically associated with an Indian/Tribal nature of the battle.