School of Black Belts – Oldbury Headquarters was established in 1996 by founded by Wayne Stokes who is a 2nd degree Black Belt in Karate & 5th Degree Black Belt in Kickboxing. Wayne fought on all the national tournament circuits and once accomplished all his tournaments goals decided to open up his own full time academy.
The school at the time specialized in Kickboxing for Adults and Children. It has produced local Junior and adult Kickboxing champions before branching out British, European and World Champions.
As the school grew it expanding to its double dojo Martial Arts Center. That is fully equipped with mats, punch bags, MMA conditioning equipment , boxing ring & half MMA cage.
As the school expanded in student numbers so did the Instructors quest for knowledge, on a chance meeting with Sifu Andy Norman the instructors quickly became part of his own flavor of Jeet Kune Do called “the Keysi Fighting Method”.
The Wayne Stokes & Russell Hingley achieved the prestigious title of KFM Black Belt under Andy Norman. KFM gave the instructor an incredible insight in Mixed Martial Arts or cross training as it was once called.
The Instructors with great enthusiasm pursued the MMA & Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) under their Instructor Master Neil Simkin & Professor Braulio Estima. Wayne Stokes now holds a Purple Belt In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Black Belt Neil Smikin.
The instructor have fought at National Level at Mixed Martial Arts & Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and have gained many awards for their efforts.
Sensei Neil Simkin With Wayne Stokes – Brazillian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ)
The School has the facilities for the students who wish to become fighters in point fighting on National Circuit , Mixed Martial Arts circuit or the Kickboxing Ring. We hold regular high intense squad training sessions at our head quarters this is included in your membership, the sessions are geared towards helping you achieve the mindset and qualities of a fighter.
The training is of high intensity and is geared towards the mind set of a fighter but has helped produce some of our top fighters.
Ryan Davies wins the British Title.
1st Floor, Bradfield House, Popes Lane, Oldbury, B69 4PA
For further information or to book your free lesson call 0121 544 6600.
The fun and safe fitness training program for children aged 3 to 5 years old.
The program should help each child find greater self-confidence and self-esteem, while improving their physical development.
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The “Little Ninja Programme” is specially designed for young children.
The techniques we teach Little ninjas have been specially selected for their stage of development, so with some work and effort they can manage to perform them and perform them well.
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Many children find conventional sports boring or just don’t enjoy them, so often something a little ‘different’ like Kickboxing will appeal to them.
The kids kickboxing class gives them absolutely top class fitness training that is geared towards their stage of development and takes care of their growing bodies.
The kickboxing classes are aimed at men and women with no prior training or experience in martial arts.
You don’t need to be young, fit, or strong; you just need to want to learn some valuable personal security skills.
Mixed Martial Arts is one of the ultimate fitness conditioning sports around at this time. It incorporates kickboxing, wrestling and Brazilian jui-jitsu to say the least. The classes incorporate blend techniques and instruction from expert coaches to create a well rounded and complete fighter.
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Students can now come and experience the rigorous strength, stamina and conditioning of the mixed martial arts world without the hard contact. We have classes available every Saturday at 10.00am.
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Through out all our schools we have attracted a large number of female students, the reason when asked why? Is that they felt comfortable in our classes and our teaching methods.
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Our school offers students a special “tailor made” program to suit their personnel needs, whether they wish to perfect their technique, develop their sparring or just enjoy being pushed that little extra.
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Belt Test or Graduation? Have Instructors watered down the grading system? Belt test or Graduation? Belt test …a graduation or Celebration ? Have Instructors watered down the grading system in martial arts school for the sake of keeping the numbers up?…..As martial arts schools have developed in size some instructors have chosen to steer away […]
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Oldbury KickBoxing Grading and its key Elements of success. The Oldbury Kickboxing grading once again the standard has set very high for the Oldbury Kickboxing Intermediate grading. Children and Adults went through and heavy session of compulsory basics, Then pad work and then finishing off with sparring. Grading or Belt test are essential for our […]
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School of Black Belts 21st Anniversary. Catching Lighting in a Bottle. They say you can’t catch lightening in a bottle but I did…… more than once. To prove is by just looking at our great team of Instructors that are at our schools. Today is our 21st Anniversary of School of Black Belts and really […]
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“I Know a Black Belt…….Really?” said Mick Tully. Black Belt Graduation. Sorry its taken so long for my write up of the Black Belt Graduation. The week has been a whirlwind and catching up with everyone’s views on how the day went. I would like to say how grateful we all are with the thanks […]
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Martial Arts Belt Testing Results. Martial arts belt testing was at a great level on Sunday at Oldbury HQ. We tested Children from 7-9 yrs , 10-13 years and adults. The group were mainly going for advance grades. You could tell right from the go that they were eager for the test and they knew […]
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