Desborough Kickboxing Against Bullying

Desborough Kickboxing take a serious view on any aspect or form of bullying. Bullying is a very unfortunate aspect of life, and sadly it occurs throughout this very borough, county, and country.

Forms of Bullying include -

• Calling people names
• Making things up to get people into trouble
• Hitting, pinching, biting, pushing and shoving
• Taking things away from others
• Damaging others belongings
• Stealing other peoples money
• Taking peoples friends away from them
• Posting insulting messages on the internet or by IM (cyberbullying)
• Spreading rumours
• Threats and intimidation
• Making silent or abusive phone calls
• Sending offensive phone texts
• Bullies may also frighten other so that they don't want to go to school, they may even pretend to be ill to avoid them

Bullying is taken very seriously my Desborough Kickboxing, as a self defence class we deal with people that have suffer from bullying all the time, and it is a very important part of what we do. 

Luke went on to say "I have seen bullying first hand from when i was at school, it really is a terrible thing"

"I always tried to stop it from happening, but sometimes people tend to not say anything in fear of being bullied themselves for standing up to someone"

"Bullies will only ever pick on people with little confidence, incidentally, they only do this because of confidence issues within themselves. This is why Kickboxing is such a great way to stop bullying from happening, it breeds confidence into people, a confident assertive person is the kind of person that will stand against bullying"

Luke was asked whether he thought anyone training with Desborough kickboxing was bullied to which he quickly replied "You can never be sure to be honest, but i know kickboxing has helped no end with every single person's confidence levels, and none of them look likely to be picked on by 'weak' bullies."

Richard Faller -

European Martial Arts Champion and Desborough instructor Richard Faller also displayed his anger at the way bullying ruins the childhood's of some unfortunate people.

Richard though was of exactly the same view as Luke Smith when he said that Kickboxing was certainly a great way to combat bullies.

He said "I think it's more a confidence thing, i don't mean to be saying that if you learn kickboxing you will be able to fight with the bullies, it's a sure fire way to build up confidence, and confidence is something that bullies hate"

"Bullies know that you simply can't bully someone that is confident"

Oliver Faller & Balraj Kang -

Ollie Faller and Barry Kang are two British champions that have both pledged their full suport to 'Anti-Bullying' with Desborough Kickboxing.