Nathan Clarke
Head Coach & Founder
Nathan started boxing at the age of 13 at his local boxing club. At 15 Nathan moved into the Martial Arts side of Combat Sport and then turned Professional at Boxing when he was 21, boxing for Jim Burns out of Crewe before moving over to Fight Factory in Stoke. He had 8 professional fights.
Nathan has a number of different qualifications under his belt:
- Level 1 & 2 England Boxing Coach
- 10th Khan Muay Thai
- Purple Belt CSP (Complete Self Protection)
- Strength & Conditioning Boxing Science.
- Level 3 Award in Education
- CAVA Assessors qualification
Nathan has also been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM).
As a coach, Nathan has been part of developing 4 national champions and over 15 regional champions to date. One of these champions is Nathan Gorman, who is now unbeaten in the professional ranks of heavyweight boxing and currently holds the WBC International Championship. He started the Club in 2013 with his close friend. Nathan has built the club up since then, and he has now developed 11 coaches for the club, going from one class with less than 10 boxers at the beginning to several classes and age groups and often 40 boxers in each.
One of his biggest accomplishments is that a number of these coaches started as young (and not so young) boxers at the club, and he has taught and developed them first as boxers and now as coaches. This has meant that Nathans’s boxing philosophy, standards and techniques are being retained and passed on throughout the whole coaching team. Nathan has a clear philosophy about how his boxers should perform both in and out of the ring and should perform throughout life in general.
