Geelong Boxing Club

07/06/2026

WOMENS ONLY BOXING. Friday 6am 🥊✨ #

06/06/2026

Hi everyone,

Women’s Box & Burn starts June 19th.

One of the things people say to us all the time after coming into Geelong Boxing Club is that the space feels different.

That’s intentional.

We never wanted to create a gym where people felt observed, judged, or like they had to perform some version of fitness culture to belong there.

So there are no mirrors.

No scales.

No transformation messaging.

No “summer body” conversations or pressure to turn yourself into a project.

Just people learning skills, moving their body, building confidence and regulating stress in a space that feels contained and supportive.

The gym itself is also private and not open to the general public during sessions, which changes the feeling of the room a lot, especially for women who have previously felt overwhelmed or hyper visible in traditional gym spaces.

I think many women underestimate how much energy goes into managing self consciousness in exercise environments.

When that layer drops away, people often find they can finally focus on themselves instead of how they’re being perceived.

That matters more than most fitness conversations acknowledge.

Women’s Box & Burn starts June 19th.

You can register now to secure your place, and payments won’t begin until sessions officially start.

https://www.geelongboxingclub.com.au/womensboxing

PS: If you are already a Geelong Boxing Club member and a woman, these sessions are already included in your membership.

06/06/2026

🥊 SCHOOL HOLIDAY BOXING REGISTRATIONS OPEN 🥊

Looking for something active, engaging and confidence building these school holidays?

These sessions are a chance for kids and teens to experience the award winning BEYOND BOXING framework, where boxing is used as a tool to build focus, confidence, emotional regulation, resilience and connection.

We’ve got sessions for different ages and stages:

👊 Ages 5–8
👊 Ages 9–12
👊 Teen Girls Private Sessions
👊 Teen Boys Group Sessions

Each session is designed to meet young people where they’re at whether they’re brand new or already love training these sessions will support them to learn, move and grow in a safe and structured environment.

Expect fun, movement, challenge and skill building, with a strong focus on both physical and emotional development.

📍 Geelong Boxing Club | NORTH GEELONG
📅 School Holiday Program

Spots are limited bookings essential :

School Holiday Boxing Program at Geelong Boxing Club. Fun, active sessions for kids and teens that build confidence, fitness, resilience and friendships.

04/06/2026

This is what Beyond Boxing is built on.

We go into schools and community settings, and the thing that sets us apart is engagement … not as a buzzword, but as a design principle.

Our teen boys boxing membership at Geelong Boxing Club has been deliberately built around a deep understanding of how boys learn and how they behave.. not to pander to them, but to actually reach them. There’s a difference. One lowers the bar. The other meets them where they are so you can raise it.

I’ve been advocating for this passionately here in the North. When boys feel genuinely safe .. not managed, not contained, but safe and seen and when their engagement needs are actually accounted for, they show up differently. They do well.

As Dr Ross Greene puts it: “Students do well when they can.”

That single sentence should reshape how we respond to every boy we’ve written off as difficult, disruptive, or disengaged. It’s not a behaviour problem. It’s an unmet need.

That’s the lens we bring into every gym session, every school program, every community space we work in. The boxing is the vehicle. The understanding of boys is the work.

04/06/2026

Most people think boxing teaches kids how to fight.

Beyond Boxing teaches them something harder.

How to stay in the room when it gets uncomfortable. How to read the person across from them. How to hold their ground without blowing up…and back down without feeling like they lost.

Today we had teenagers doing pad work together. Two people. One pair of pads. You can’t fake it in that space. You either show up for your partner or you don’t. You either communicate or the whole thing falls apart.

That’s not just boxing. That’s a relational skill.

When a teen learns to regulate their own nervous system under pressure ..to breathe, reset, keep going & they stop outsourcing their emotional state to everyone around them. And when they stop doing that, something changes in how they move through the world. In their friendships. Their classrooms. Their homes.

That’s what we’re building here.

Not tougher kids. More connected ones.

🥊 Beyond Boxing | Building the skills that actually matter.

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

Just a heads up, Monday is a public holiday, so we're making a small adjustment to the timetable.

The 6:00am morning Box & Burn class will not be running, so please enjoy the sleep in. Take your time, have a slow morning, and soak up the extra rest... your body will thank you.

The good news? Our afternoon sessions are going ahead as normal:

4:30pm — Teen Boxing ✅
5:30pm — Boxing Tech ✅
Both classes will be coached by Steve, so you're in great hands.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. Otherwise, we'll see you in the gym!

With love from the GBC team 🥊

03/06/2026

I want to tell you about a moment that's been sitting with me.

Last week I was at a conference the kind with lanyards and instant coffee and everyone rehearsing their answer to so, what do you do? ...and I met a genuinely well regarded educational leader. Someone whose entire career is built around youth wellbeing across Victoria.

When I mentioned Beyond Boxing, she lit up.

"Oh, that's great," she said warmly. "We all need a way to let our anger out."

I smiled. Said something gracious. Spent the drive home quietly unravelling.

Not because she was unkind. She was lovely. But because that assumption - that boxing is essentially a socially acceptable tantrum, a place to discharge your worst feelings before returning to polite society is so deeply embedded that even the people whose careers are built around wellbeing haven't questioned it.

And given that one in four young Australians now meets criteria for a probable serious mental illness, and that psychological distress among Victorians aged 16–24 is at some of its highest recorded levels... I think it matters enormously that we get this right.

So I want to be clearer with you. Because you're here. You've chosen this. You deserve to know exactly what we're doing and why.

The image of boxing: two people trying to hit each other.

The philosophy underneath our work: almost the opposite.

What actually happens when someone wraps their hands, steps into the gym, and begins training under intentional facilitation is not about release. It's about regulation.

There's a meaningful difference. Emotional venting (punching your problems away) is actually a contested concept in psychology. The research on whether hitting things reduces aggression is mixed at best. At worst, it suggests behavioural rehearsal of aggression can increase it.

That is not what we are doing here. Not remotely.

What we're doing is closer to what trauma informed practitioners call titrated exposure to intensity. Which sounds clinical. Which is actually just: learning to stay with yourself when everything in your body is screaming at you to bolt, lash out, or disappear.

When someone is 20 minutes into a session, arms heavy, lungs burning, heart rate climbing, and they still have to think and move and stay... they are practising the exact skill that no amount of talking about feelings will teach:

Staying present under pressure. Staying inside their body instead of abandoning it. Feeling the intensity without becoming it.

I watch this happen. Over and over.

A teenager who, three months ago, would leave the moment things got hard...now breathing through the discomfort, finding the pause, finishing the round.

And for those of you who train with us yourselves ...you already know what I mean. You've felt it. The moment you stopped fighting the difficulty and started moving with it.

I want to be honest about something else, too.

The anger is real. Of course it is. Whether you're fourteen and drowning in social media's relentless comparison engine, or forty three and quietly exhausted by cost of living pressure that never seems to ease...the feelings that walk through our door with you are not irrational. They make complete sense. Life right now, at almost every age, is genuinely hard.

But there is a profound difference between feeling your anger and being governed by it. Between anger as information and anger as verdict.

What we practise is the former. The hard feelings come in the door. We don't pretend they aren't there. We just refuse to let them run the session.

We build capacity instead. Capacity to pause. To regulate. To tolerate discomfort. To stay present. To recover. To belong safely inside your own body.

I used to get a little defensive when people misunderstood this work but I think the misunderstanding is an invitation.

If the most well meaning people in the room are still seeing boxing through an outdated lens, then I need to be more articulate. More willing to say the slightly nerdy, completely true thing: that what we are building here is neurological, emotional, relational capacity.

The ability to feel hard things ... and still choose your next move.

Thank you for being connected here. Id love to know what you have to add to this conversation or if you have any questions.

Lena Moxon
Found Beyond Boxing | GEELONG BOXING CLUB

02/06/2026

Today Steve was honoured to be invited as a guest to the Lions Club of Geelong Breakfast Inc. 25 Year Celebration at The Eastern Hub.

Sitting in a room full of people who quietly show up for community year after year, decade after decade is a reminder of why we do what we do.

We are genuinely grateful to be included, and incredibly fortunate that our Teen Boys Membership is supported through the Lions scholarship program. It means young people who need this space can actually access it.

No fanfare. Just community taking care of community.

02/06/2026

Meet our new coach LYN

I wanted to properly introduce you to Lyn, who will be leading our Women’s Box & Burn sessions.

Lyn is a mum of three boys, including twins, and she understands what it means to try and hold yourself together while still attempting to prioritise your own wellbeing somewhere in the middle of work, family, exhaustion, responsibility and real life.

She has trained for many years across boxing and martial arts, but the thing I trust most about her isn’t her experience. It’s her presence.

She’s calm, grounded, highly capable, and doesn’t bring ego into the room.

There’s no performance energy with her. No intimidation. No trying to make people feel “less than” so they push harder. Just really solid coaching and an ability to meet people properly where they are at.

And I think women feel that difference pretty quickly.

I’m incredibly protective of who coaches inside our space, particularly when women are trusting us with their nervous systems, confidence, and bodies in vulnerable stages of life.

Lyn is quite literally the only woman I would currently recommend in this region for this kind of work.

Women’s Boxing & Burn begins June 19th and registrations are now open.

You can claim your place now and payments will stay paused until the sessions officially begin.

https://www.geelongboxingclub.com.au/womensboxing

PS: If you are already a Geelong Boxing Club member and a woman, these sessions are included in your membership already.

Women-only boxing-based training sessions in Geelong designed for strength, emotional regulation, and real-life wellbeing in a calm, non-intimidating environment.