Shawn Burton
Shawn started his martial arts career with Wado Ryu karate at 6 years old and graded his way up to black belt, where he built a reputation as one of the best young instructors around. Shawn was assistant instructor at a very popular class on a Friday night on the Ermine estate in Lincoln.
However, Shawn’s real passion was the competition side of Sport Karate, where he won numerous awards in individual and team Kumite (fighting) events. It was Shawn’s Kumite skills where he really earnt his reputation, eventually earning Student of the Year at HBK Karate Club.
Shawn later joined the late Jez Hall’s Chikara Martial Arts in Monson Street where he immediately fell in love with kickboxing. From the age of 15 Shawn has tested himself in the ring against some of the best fighters all over the world including Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Norway, France, Argentina, Italy, Latvia and America at a professional level.
Shawn’s fight career has seen him win 5 British titles and 2 European titles as well as an unsuccessful challenge for the WKA World title in New York, America and la Rioja, Argentina.
Shawn’s expertise lies within nutrition and fitness. He has designed diet and fitness programs plans for hundreds of clients, which have seen great results.
Shawn is also a fight event promoter and CEO of Takeover Promotions, one of the countries most respected K1 rules kickboxing events.
For more information please email Shawn at shawn@lincolnkba.co.uk
Glen Wright
Working alongside Andy at Lockdown, Glen has over 15 years experience in Boxing & kickboxing and has represented local clubs Bracebridge as an amateur boxer, Lee Coults ‘No-Limits’ as a kickboxer and Impact Sleaford in amateur MMA, and has trained alongside & sparred with many of the best talents to have come out of the Lincoln.
After 2 seasons with local rugby league club Lincoln city Knights,Glen decided to work on his grappling skills with the wrestlers at the Bracebridge club,and this invaluable experience led to a passion for MMA, and led to him around the county to train at some of the best clubs available, picking up skills & techniques initially at Impact Sleaford, then Dan Gibbon at Gainsborough MMA and then the highly successful ‘Fight ministry’ teams In Grimsby & Hull. Aswell as numerous seminars with some of the best BJJ and submission grapplers in the country along the way.
This experience has led to success in several local Gym shows and grappling tournaments including winning Lincolns first ever amateur MMA tournament in 2006.
After linking with local fighter Andy Parr, the pair have trained and cornered numerous local fighters and developed a reputation as respected amateur MMA coaches having built a good stable of fighters at Satori and now at the Fight Factory club as ‘Lockdown MMA’
Andy Parr
Andy started Martial Arts 23 years ago at the age of 12, training in Kickboxing. He devoted all his time to training and in doing so progressed very quickly. At the age of 13 he was asked by his coaches "Jack Boas" and the late "Jez Hall" to start training with the fight team. Training and sparring with World, European & British Champions like Trevor "TNT" Tacy, Lee "The Butcher" Swaby and the likes. It wasn‘t long before Andy went on to be the club’s first junior fighter and winning his first title at 14. Andy is now a 4th Dan Black Belt under Master Instructor Rob Fulton.
Since taking up MMA, Andy‘s stand up training has moved more towards Muay Thai Boxing which he has been studying under "Kru Leigh Edlin" at Lincoln’s Chao Phraya Gym. Andy has also travelled to Thailand to train at the world famous "Fairtex" Gym.
Coming from a striking background, Andy found the "grappling" side of MMA very intriguing and wasn’t long before he fell in love with it. Andy has travelled around the country attending seminars with some of the best grapplers in the world.
Andy is a Blue Belt in Brazilian Jui Jitsu under "Danny Mitchell" and has compeated in both gi and no gi compititions winnining numerous gold medals.
Andy has been training with Strength and Conditioning coach "Ian Willows" for many years now and in doing so has learnt a lot from him in all aspects of Strength and Conditioning.
