Empower Online had it's inception in the crazy years of 2020 and 2021 where our world in many ways, moved online!

My physical martial arts academy moved online in a matter of days and before I knew it I was running our full timetable online via Zoom, plus additional fitness classes during the day!

I was always of the mind that martial arts and fitness HAD to be done in the presence of a qualified instructor in a dojo, academy or gym. How could the intricacies of martial arts be transmitted via a screen?!

I had been training in martial arts for over 20 years at that time and have travelled the world expanding my knowledge, at the expense of my wallet and also my joints!

Yet here we were, forced to move online and sink or swim! I didn't know what would happen...

To my surprise however, my students not only retained their skills and fitness levels, they even grew them during our period online. Parents joined in with kids for their martial arts sessions, families worked out together and our community thrived. We were closer than ever before!

When we were eventually able to open up again, we had not only retained the majority of our students, but we had even gained a few who had only ever seen us online!

This led me to rethink my opinions of online training and I went down the rabbit whole of online learning!

I experienced training with top class martial artists all over the world and experienced new arts. I invested in my time and energy and took online courses on finance, business and personal development.

I was determined to come out of lockdown stronger, fitter, and more knowledgeable.

It's now two years later and I have a successful full time academy with over 150 students, have written two books on martial arts and have been promoted to instructor in a number of different systems.

Empower Online is for those wanting to learn some new skills, develop their existing ones and most importantly, join an engaged, supportive and like-minded community with a common goal.

To better themselves through health, fitness, martial arts and personal development.

We'll be releasing a number of courses in time, from sparring basics, to self defence foundations, to breathwork, mental wellbeing and much much more.

Our online community group will offer support, guidance and advice from a number of experts in a number of different field which will continue to grow as we bring more more into our Empower Community.

Welcome to the start of something very cool!