“Around 4 years ago I was introduced to UFT by a good family friend Kane Worthy. He persuaded me to get in to Teen MMA. By this stage I had recently graded up to black belt in karate, so I had already had some sort of fighting experience. So I did really well at it and really enjoyed it.”
“After a couple of weeks doing Teen MMA, I was introduced to CrossFit by a few of the guys whohad been training there for a while in both styles. I continued to train (and still train now) with those guys Lucas O’Brien and Denzel Laverdure 2-3 years later”
“I am proud to say that I am sponsored by UFT Playgrounds. I am an elite horse rider. I have ridden for Australia 3 times in a discipline called Mounted Games. Crossfit has benefited me and still benefits me in my riding ability as it has helped me gain more muscle and helped me to get that much fitter. I got to the point that I was riding the best that I had ever ridden in my whole life. I then went on to achieving my first muscle up (AWESOME).”
“There is one movement in Mounted Games which is called vaulting, which is when you run along side the horse and jump onto it while moving at top speeds. Achieving that muscle up had given me the capability to vault onto any horse at any kind of speed, whether it was at a slower canter or a flat out gallop.”
“Just last year I had broken my ankle doing ROPE Climbs to Everest. Once I was feeling a bit better, about 3-4 weeks after the accident, I was back at training almost every day. YES, I was back training almost every day 3 weeks after breaking my ankle. If I was some place else in a different environment, I don’t actually believe that I would of had the motivation to continue to go to training. But for some reason UFT is the way that it is, an extremely positive environment, surrounded by people that make you feel as welcome as anyone can make you feel, and that is what kept making me go back, again and again.”
“To me, UFT is not a community. It is not a gym. It is not just some place that you go to just workout. It is a playground. It is a family. It is a place where you can be at your lowest point and there will always be someone there to make you laugh. I have met the most amazing people throughout these last 4 years and I know that for as long as I’m at UFT, I will continue to meet the most amazing people.”
“It never gets easier, you just get better”
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY.
PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training.
We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way.
We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general.
A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness.
The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal.
For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else.
As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own
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This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body.
A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them.
UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry.
Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System.
This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business.
See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.
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