OB's Muay Thai gym

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 OBs Child Protection Team 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

At the start of 2026 we started building a child protection team within the gym to help make sure that kids and coaches are training and working within a safe environment

We asked some of our gym community if they had the relevant experience or passion to help us achieve this.

We had the following parents step forward to assist us :
Courtney Johnston
Vicki McLellan
Tracy Cham
XxJacxx Weemurph

Over the last few months the team have been using experience from their roles within the care sector to information and training from online courses to help us safeguard our gym

They hosted their first meeting with our coaches in March this year and passed on vital information and hand outs to our coaching team. We will host these meetings twice per year.

Within the gym we will have an information board with all of our procedures and certificates contained. Lists of our coaches who are first aid trained and acting fire marshals are also available.

In 2025 the gym was accepted to be part of the PVG scheme and in the coming months we will be applying for refreshers for existing coaches and first time applications for our new junior coaches.

Towards the end of 2026 we will select the next group, mostly teenage students, for first aid training as we look to progress our students to the next level where hopefully they can become future coaches.

Our gym and coaches are fully insured as are our fight shows.

Lots of work going on behind the scenes to make sure we can give our students the very best environment

We can only do this with the support from our gym members with payment of monthly fees, support at our events, support from our sponsors and volunteers taking up roles within the gym

Head Coach
Gym manager
Facilities manager
Coaches
Trainee coaches
Cleaners
CPT
And the amazing group of volunteers who help at our events and fight shows

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 OBs : more than just a gym 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Busy weekend for the fight team as we had fighters at MTGP in Glasgow and Battle of the Reivers in Galashiels

First up was Jude
Huge final round from Jude was enough to take the win on points at MTGP. Smashing win against a game opponent 👏

Caden was on next down at the Borders.
First fight for Caden and he competed well. Stayed with it for the 5 rounds but came up short on points. Great experience for him 👏

Back to MTGP next
ICO European Title match up for Lee Mackay. Tough opponent who started really well causing Lee some problems in the first round. Closing the distance in the 2nd round, Lee proved too much for Samir and the fight was stopped midway through the 2nd. Classy win for Lee and another belt for the collection 👏

Late finish down at the Borders for Aiden and the team
Aiden came up short against a very classy opponent. The fight went the 5 rounds with his opponent the worthy winner. Wasn’t Aiden’s night but he’ll be back soon showing what he’s capable of 👏

Well done to all 4 lads and the supporting teams, coaches, cornermen and cut men 🙏

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La La student of the Month for June.

💪 PRETTY MUDDY FUNDRAISER 🏃

Well done to Beau Gillies and Daniel Bright who recently completed the Pretty Muddy (Tough Mudder for kids) event in Edinburgh.

Assisted by Codie Gillies and John Mullen, all 4 made it around the course and had a great day doing so

With all donations now collected and counted, an amazing £1323 was raised 😮 👏

These funds will help take our junior fight team to events around the country, creating opportunities to compete at some of the top fight shows in the UK

Huge thanks to our usual sponsors for their help and contributions
Cam Autos
Car key centre Ltd
Musclebound - health shop & No1 fight gear store

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 THURSDAY SPARRING AT OB’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

20 rounds last night, beginners to world champions, teamwork 🙏

Small number of spaces open for new members, contact us asap for more info 🥊

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Kayden jnr Thai class student of the month