Dale Wood

At the age of 14 Dale started training with the Derbyshire panthers and graded under ECKA , attaining his black belt at 17 and opening his first kickboxing class in Bakewell at 18.

His first fight was in 1994 under full contact kickboxing rules. Dale also fought on the amateur boxing circuit and began training in MMA (mixed martial arts) with the British combat association at 19.

By 21 he had fought at home and abroad, winning WKA  Midland Area , WKA English , WUMA English , WKO English , WAKO PRO British , WAKO PRO Commonwealth and WAKO PRO European titles under full contact kickboxing rules , and went on to defend his 3 major titles successfully .

In 2000 Dale moved to Bad Company Thai Boxing in Leeds under Richard Smith and tried his hand at Thai boxing and low kick kickboxing.

In 2003 Dale moved his training USKA in Birmingham under Niel Kelly and  narrowly lost to Fran Zuccala for the WAKO PRO World title and decided to take time out of competition.  A year later he joined forces with Mark Ball and “Jesters Gym” was born.

Thanks to the fine tuning from USKA Dale finally reached his goal on October 28th 2007 and became the ISKA Super Middleweight World Champion defeating Brian Aston who was the reigning champion. Dale took it the full 12 rounds getting a unanimous points decision to win !  

Mark Ball

Mark took up kickboxing in 1999 under former European champion Dale Wood, within a year he had added mixed martial arts to his training schedule when he began training alongside Neil Anderson of Extreme MMA.

By 2003 Mark was helping coach Kickboxing and MMA and finally decided to compete in his first full contact fight in 2004 . By the end of 2005 he had succesfully competed on the amateur circuit under full contact, leg kick and Thai boxing rules.

Whilst competing and coaching in 2004, Mark joined forces with Dale in the birth of "Jesters gym" proving to be an invaluable link in the driving force behind the gym. Mark is the drive behind the junior squad giving encouragment and inspiration to all our junior fighters.  

Tim Maskrey

Started training in the early 80s in Kickboxing and Kung Fu, competing on the points, semi and full contact circuit.
In 1990 Tim moved from Kung Fu to Taekwondo which he continued to do for 4 years before his transition into amateur boxing.
In 1996 Tim decided to work on his grappling and moved his attention to Judo. Still keeping up his kickboxing training he earned his 3rd degree black belt. In 2002 Tim took up Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in order to improve upon his Judo. In 2003 He gained his Black belt in Judo. In 2006 Tim was awarded his brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu by Royce Gracie himself, and feels happiest teaching this style. Tims broad knowledge and experience is a great asset to the direction of Jesters mixed martial arts.

Eli May Carson

In 2001 Eli started kickboxing and self-defence with Mark and Dale.

In 2007 Eli became "jesters gym" first RCSU female instructor. Eli saw that the majority of women wanted to learn martial arts but found that joining in with normal classes was intimidating as these classas are strongly dominated by men. So in 2007 Womens only Workout was born. Giving flexibility on class times for either personal training or group bookings.This filled the gap giving an equal amount of both men and women at "jesters gym".    www.freewebs.com/fitnesselimay/indehtmx.

2007/08 Eli introduced Little Ninjas to "jesters gym" bringing a younger age group into the gym for ages 4-8 year olds this starts children at the very grass roots of martial arts.

Eli is a huge asset to jesters gym, she is a strong believer in fitness and physical activity for all ages shapes and sizes , and with an extremely competitive nature she instills this in everyone she meets.

Neil Maltby

Neil started training back in 1999 at the age of 19.He started off martial arts life in a local village hall practicing freestyle karate He spent 3 years training in karate adding Taekwondo with the T.A.G.B to his list. He reached brown belt in karate but something was missing from his training, so took up Muay thai boxing training up at the Master Sken academy at Stockport. He spent alot of time with Master Sken mainly having private sessions and weekend seminars . Neil also managed to train in 2 or 3 of his classes a week. He fought in his 1st interclub at Master Skens.Due to work and transport problems Neil was forced to leave Master Skens and found a new home at the Wicker camp Sheffield. He continued having the private lessons here but this time under ex European Thai boxing champion Darren Castlegate. By this time Neil was getting into the Ufc and began training with Jesters Tim Maskrey. He recieved my blue belt of Royce Gracie in 2006.Tim Maskrey then introduced Neil to Jesters Thai, kick boxing instructor Dale wood. Neil has now competed on the Thai and kickboxing circuits and also had to opportunities to train up at Badcompany, and spent a month at Tiger Muay Thai Thailand . Neils training has now progressed to incorporating the Middleton by Wirksworth free style wrestling club .