READ THIS BEFORE YOU COME ASKING US TO TEACH YOUR KID TO SWING FIRST, OR SWING BACK.

We’re a boxing gym.
We teach kids how to move their bodies, read patterns, sharpen focus, control impulses, regulate emotion, and build confidence.
We do not teach kids to throw punches because they’re mad, hurt, uncomfortable or because someone "started it."

Conflict at school?
Someone says something?
Someone pushes past them?
Someone takes it too far?
You think the answer is teaching your child to swing back?
We don’t. And we never will.

Because what we’re actually teaching is far harder and far more powerful:

-To recognise the signals in their body when they feel unsafe.

-To regulate nervous system responses before they escalate into impulsive actions.

-To build solid relationships with trusted adults, mentors and leaders they can turn to for support.

-To develop the language to advocate for themselves clearly and directly.

-To ask for help early and to be explicit about what that support needs to look like.

-To take accountability for their own reactions, even when someone else made the first move.

This is what real self protection looks like.
Because swinging back is still dysregulation.
It’s still escalation.
It still makes the situation worse 99% of the time.

Not one single young person, from age 5 to 18, who trains here has gotten themselves involved in physical altercations at school or out in the community.

Not one.

Because they’re learning the skills that keep them safe long before fists ever need to fly.

And I’m not saying this from the sidelines.

Every week I work inside primary schools, high schools, and youth centres across the Geelong region.

I sit in real conversations with real young people hearing exactly what’s going on for them inside classrooms, in schoolyards, behind closed doors, and inside their own nervous systems.

I work 1:1 with teenagers navigating some of the most complex situations they’ve ever faced.

I carry a background in education, child and adolescent mental health, trauma informed practice, and developmental theory.
This isn’t theory to me, this is lived professional practice.
That gives me the right to have this opinion. That’s why I make the choices I do inside this gym.

We are not raising kids who feel entitled to become the bigger bully.
Not even when "someone else started it."

I know there are plenty of boxing gyms that will happily sell you a version of "self defense" that justifies your child using their fists every time emotions run hot.
That’s not us.
That’s not what goes down in my space.
And I’m not here to pretend I get to dictate what happens in anybody else’s.

But if you walk through our doors, you better understand that we don’t weaponise kids here.
We teach them to master themselves in and out of the gym.