GEMMA AULD | PFL Belfast | Post Fight Interview
12 May 2025 ยท interview ยท Combat Confidential
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Fighter: gemma-auld
Promotion: professional_fighters_league
Event: professional_fighters_league_europe_1_2025
Summary
Gemma Auld secured the win over Sammy Jo-Luxton via rear naked choke moving up to 2-0. Gemma opens up about how combat sports can help with young peoples growth and development. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more content! ๐https://www.combatconfidential.comโฆ
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Post-fight interview with Gemma Auld after PFL Belfast, focused on her work as a teacher and how combat sports fit into young people's development. She says she has worked at the same school for about eight years, starting the job around when she first stepped into a Thai gym, and that pupils who have known her throughout that time are beginning to see martial arts as discipline rather than street fighting. She describes using respect from students who think fighting is cool to steer them toward martial arts and away from trouble, especially in her local area. She notes local judo clubs have run school workshops and free sessions. On getting more young women involved, she says many girls at her school already do kickboxing and argues visibility mattersโexposure to women like herself or Savi Joe, including at a tournament the previous year, helps girls see participation as a normal option. She wants continued media presence and more schools exposing pupils to women in martial arts.
Transcript (youtube_captions)
[Music] Yeah, just one one quick question for you. All right, so uh first of all, congratulations and um you're a teacher and a big thing for me is trying to get young people into combat sports. Uh the biggest thing that I've always heard from parents is they don't want their kids fighting. as a teacher, an educator, how do you feel combat sports fits into uh kids growing and developing? Yeah, that's a great question to be honest. Um I would say like I've worked in the same school for quite a while like 8 years. Um and I've actually worked there since I started training from the very very first day I stepped in a a tai gym and they've seen like the progress like some of the kids have been there that whole time and I think for them they've starting to realize including like I live and work in the same community. the parents and kids are kind of realizing it's not just about fighting, it's like a discipline and and all that. And I think they they're starting to see that through what I'm doing. And also like I've got a lot of respect for the kids. They think fighting's like cool and and they respect people that can fight. So if there is any situation where they might be fighting, they'll listen to me to to talk about it. And in turn, I'll I'll kind of teach them about going and doing martial arts and how that leads to discipline that gets them out of bother in the streets. And for me that's a really important thing especially in the area I'm in. So I'm always trying to encourage them to do that. And we've had some like local judo clubs and stuff coming in and taking the kids to do workshops and things and offering them free sessions and things which have been great. So I do think martial arts for kids is really coming through and if I can do anything to help that then that's a a great win for me. Can I just do one follow-up question? How would you get more younger women involved? Sorry I couldn't hear you. What would you do to get more younger women involved? to be honest like in my school there is quite a lot of young girls who are doing the kickboxing and things. So I think just more exposure of people like me or Savi Joe or any other girls like when we had the tournament last year just kind of seeing like normal girls doing it like it's something that kind of makes them realize it's an option and just exposing them to it I think is important. So yeah, just keeping on getting women in martial arts and in the media and maybe like other schools having like exposure to that kind of thing, I think would be great. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you so much.