Welcome to Ashbourne Kickboxing
The first steps are often the hardest to take, but are the most rewarding. We strive to provide the best quality kickboxing training for ages 5 and upwards, kids and adults at all fitness levels in and around the Ashbourne area.
We recognise everyone’s reasons for starting martial arts vary and also appreciate that you want to make sure this is a good fit for you, so we offer 2 completely free trial classes to all potential students.
Our classes are run to ensure:
| You will | You will not |
|---|---|
| Practice in a safe and welcoming environment | Be put at risk |
| Be taught by fully qualified black belt instructor(s) | Be forced to fight (ever!) |
| Learn realistic self defense | Be singled out from the rest of the group |
| Meet like minded people | Do the same class twice |
| Have full support and encouragement from the coaching team | Get bored with repetitive exercises |
| Improve flexibility and general fitness | Be made to do anything you are not comfortable with |
We aim to deliver a wide variety in our classes, improving fitness, self-confidence, flexibility, and realistic self-defence. We also regularly integrate the opportunity to practice sparring and learn technical grading sets, both of which are optional.
great fun, great instructors and you get fit too!
Fantastic coaches great classes highly recommend
Ceri and Paul are friendly, knowledgeable and patient instructors who make training fun and varied. It’s a friendly group with a good mix of people of different ages and fitness levels. Come along!
Really hot instructors.
2026 – save the dates!
- Saturday 7th Mar – Pre-Grading & Pre-Brown-Belt – Belper Leisure Centre
- Sunday 15th Mar – Grading – Belper Leisure Centre
- Sunday 17th May – Interclub – Clifton
- Saturday 4th Jul – Pre-Grading – Belper Leisure Centre
- Sunday 12th Jul – Grading – Belper Leisure Centre
- Saturday 3rd Oct – Interclub – Derbyshire
- Saturday 14th Nov – Pre-Grading & Pre-Brown-Belt – Belper Leisure Centre
- Sunday 22nd Nov – Grading – Belper Leisure Centre
🎉 great way to finish the year welcoming two new members of the instructing team 🎉 Jon Davies and David Allen-Ashcroft from the Matlock class have successfully completed the Coach Confirmation Programme, competing practical delivery of classes across all our clubs as well as building their skills in the behind the scenes parts of being an instructor including health & safety, safeguarding and customer service 👍😀 both have worked tirelessly to achieve this amazing milestone to be awarded their Blue trousers and will be opening clubs of their own in early 2026 🎉 huge thanks to the existing team who have helped on their journey and especially Adam Sharman, Matlock class instructor for all his hard work 💪
Black Belts Celebration
What an amazing evening yesterday award 8 first dan black belts to very well-deserving students. All your dedication and hard work over many years has paid off and made a lot of people very proud of you. Well done everyone!
We also took the opportunity to photo all our black belts who were there last night! Awesome to see.
I will do some individual photo journeys in the coming days and weeks. So look out for those.
All the best from me and Ceri.
What an amazing evening yesterday award 8 first dan black belts to very well-deserving students. All your dedication and hard work over many years has paid off and made a lot of people very proud of you. Well done everyone!
We also took the opportunity to photo all our black belts who were there last night! Awesome to see.
I will do some individual photo journeys in the coming days and weeks. So look out for those.
All the best from me and Ceri.
