HOPWOOD Fight Centre: Home Of WKF Team UK
Award-winning and experienced coaches in Martial Arts, Boxing and MMA, and 1-1 Personal Training.
We can help you with your goals: Learn self-defence, improve your combat skills, become a champion, or improve your health through great nutrition. Whatever you’re looking to do, we can help you to get fighting fit and stay healthy!
Why train with us?
Hopwood Fight Centre is one of the Midlands longest established Mixed Martial Arts and Combat sports gyms. We offer fantastic training facilities and an unparalleled range of training suited for all levels from beginner to professional.
Whether you want to just improve your fitness or get fit to fight, take your training to the next level with us.
We prepare people for all levels of training & competition and help them achieve their goals. Whether we’re coaching athletes regularly competing at the highest level around the world, preparing people for amateur boxing, kickboxing & Mixed Martial Arts or simply to lose weight and gain confidence the ethos is train hard – train with a smile on your face.
Established in 2003 Hopwood Fight Centre has consistently provided elite level coaching and training for all of its members from those going on to be world champions in their discipline to our many regular and happy members who use it for fitness, self-defence and for the welcoming atmosphere and camaraderie.
Consistent high level, structured coaching and classes are a key part of the team’s success with the head coaches and founders of the gym involved in all parts of the training program, instructing in sessions from complete beginners to our successful Fight Team and Fight Sports Academy.
What our clients say
“I have not felt back pain since joining”
After getting nowhere at a regular gym due to lack of self motivation over a number of years, it has been a life changing experience finding the Hopwood Combat System.
Not only has it dramatically increased my fitness, but it has also taught me very useful self-defence skills. Additionally, having suffered from reoccurring lower back pains for many years, the core strength techniques have meant that I have not felt the back pain since joining.
Warwickshire
“My fitness has dramatically improved”
I started training with the Hopwoods with the intent to get fit, lose weight and start a healthier lifestyle; but the style of the training offers so more than that.
Over the last 18 months my fitness has dramatically improved, my body shape has changed dramatically and my cardiovascular system is better than ever!
Worcestershire
“Great for toning muscles without building bulk”
I really look forward to my weekly one to one personal training sessions with Sharon – every week we do something different.
Combining combat training with the workout has really helped increase my fitness level, and its great for toning muscles without building bulk.
Warwickshire
“At the cutting edge of development”
Andy Hopwood has created a syllabus which is both practical and relatively easy to learn. His deep understanding of how to turn an attacker into an unsuccessful assailant is at the cutting edge of development.
The structure of the system is second to none, so if you are looking to stay safe, give the Hopwood’s a call. It may just be the best call you ever made!
“A breath of fresh air”
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to join a martial arts class and achieve black belt status but was always put off by the macho attitudes of some schools and the thought of having to learn Chinese names of the different moves. There’s none of that at the Hopwood Free Fighting Academy – it is a breath of fresh air.
There’s no intimidation, no elitism, and all are welcome. I never imagined that I would stay the distance – in the past I’d had knee-trouble, back-trouble, wasn’t fit enough etc. The carefully designed exercises and circuits taught at the Academy ensure that your core strength is developed without overloading joints or straining muscles.
When you join you will get all of the fitness benefits, self-confidence and self-defence skills but you are also becoming part of a big family and you will make many new good friends.
Birmingham
“Your breakaway techniques are the best I’ve seen”
Thanks for the excellent training, it is realistic and the methods pertinent to today’s situations. I have been taught and practised various forms of self defence over the last 25 years, your breakaway techniques are the best I’ve seen and I liked the use of vocalisation strategies to disarm or distract the opponent.
I am an operational uniformed police officer and the annual Home Office approved defensive tactics package is woefully inadequate for today’s society. My feelings are those of many officers that I work with. Our emphasis is on restraining, yet for many we come up against, it is street fighting skills and practise that is required.
Thanks again for the quality and realistic training.
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