Damian Halforty

Location: New Zealand

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Website: www.boxercise.co.nz

Tactical Advisor

Damian is the owner of Sweatbox Boxing and Fitness Gym in Auckland New Zealand. With 16 years martial arts experience, he is Director and Head Instructor of the Auckland Kali Group, and also the Bakbakan Kali New Zealand representative. Featured in Masters of the Blade, a book dedicated to Edged Weapon instructors around the world

While living in Johannesburg South Africa Damian set up and ran a successful close protection, security and tactical training company. In this time Damian has run over 700 security operations in over sixty different countries. He has been a civilian contractor to The SA Special Forces Brigade, SA National Intelligence Service and to members of The SA Police and Prison Services. Damian has trained hundreds of personnel in Close Protection, CQB, and tactical firearms. In this time he wrote the e-book Carjacking Countermeasures for Executive Security International based in Co USA. He also attended various tactical training courses including ASP Tactical Baton, Firearms instruction, Close Protection, Vehicle operations, Hostage Survival, Bomb Identification and Countermeasures.

His experience extends from the South African Defence Force VIP Protection Unit achieving status as a handgun instructor as well as active duties in the South African Police Reserve for several years. Dealing with general duties through to High Risk warrants of arrest, attending the SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics course passing with honours.

Damian specializes in teaching elements of CQB, carjacking countermeasures and tactical edged weapons.

Brian Reeves

Location: Christchurch, New Zealand

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Website: m1nt.co.nz

I have been in and around the fitness industry for over 20 years now so bring a wealth of experience to the session. Love playing with the kettlebells and using body weight training and well as more mainstream weights to keep variety in my and the clients training.

Don’t believe in any gender or age barriers when it comes to training, just get out there and do it. No excuses.

Kirsten Tulloch

Location: Tauranga, New Zealand

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I am the founder and trainer at Tauranga Strength & Conditioning. My background prior to kettlebells and functional training was in bodybuilding in which I represented Scotland internationally. I trained under Steve Cotter in Edinburgh and am a CKT2.

At TSC, we offer group functional conditioning sessions at various times 7 days a week. Our sessions are unconventional and we use kit such as kettlebells, sandbags, War Machine suspension trainers, Battling Ropes, medicine balls, bodyweight exercises, barbell work, sled dragging, car pulling, sledgehammer tyre striking, tyre flipping....we even have a custom built monkey bar station! Our goal in these sessions is to get your entire body moving and working as a unit. We incorporate flexibility and mobility work into each session to help you to move freely and with ease as our bodies are designed to before sedentary jobs and one dimensional training got in the way.

We are available for private one to one PT, corporate sessions, private groups and sports teams.

We also offer courses in powerlifting, kettlebell training and core stability and balance training. These courses are instructional and held over an 8 week period where our clients are taught skills that they will keep for life and increase their performance and confidence.

We pride ourselves on offering what we call "semi personal training". Our group sessions have a maximum of 10 people so our members are guaranteed time and attention from skilled coaches who ensure you do not just have a blast and leave in a sweaty mess, but that you do so in a skilled, safe and effective manner. We are technique freaks and we invest time making sure that everyone does everything correctly. Keeping our groups small allows us to do this so that our members gain skills and with it confidence in their own abilities.

We are a gym with a difference....we teach skills. Whether you train with us solely or train at another gym and come to us once or twice a week for conditioning or for one of our specialised courses, we aim to be your missing link. We know that training with us will propel your training, skills and body awareness to a whole new level.

Be prepared to work or be shown the door....welcome to the jungle :-)

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