Lincoln CIty FC players help out at Kids Class

We recently had 3 of Lincoln City’s hottest talent pop into the gym to help Shawn Burton with the kids class and then stay for the boxing class which seemed to be a great benefit to both parties.

The 3 players who swapped football boots for boxing gloves were regular first team player Connor Robinson and fringe players Keegan Everington and Alex Simmons.

The session started with Lincoln City and Lincoln Fight Factory Coach Kevin Oxby taking the group through a light warm up and some stretched before Shawn took over with the pad work.

The players were put with junior fighters Wiktor Gornicki, Megan Downham and Kraig Green, with all 3 footballers commenting on how strong and fit the junior fighters were.

We worked on a few technical combinations to start with, followed by some stamina work which pushed everybody in the class the the extreme.  After 40 minutes of this everybody was padded up and ready to spar.

All the kids waited anxiously to be called up into the ring by their sporting hero’s and certainly made the most of it when they were trading shots, with nobody holding back on the players.

It was a great night for everybody involved and we are now working on a date with the players to arrange a return training session with the team to work on their football skills to see how we compare on their home turf.

Thanks again to everybody of Lincoln City FC for making this possible and we look forward to working with you again very soon.