Shell Gilkes has a 20-year background in studying and teaching movement and was lucky enough to discover RKC as the route she took into strength training in 2014. This pathway has enabled her to hone her skills within the RKC school of strength, and she became RKC certified in 2021 after 7 years of training for it!
After an off-topic conversation with a yoga teacher led her to google the phrase "what is a kettlebell", she knew that she was on to something quite special. A few wrong turns and dodgy youtube videos later, she came across, and trained with, a local RKC (which was quite something, given that he was only one of three active in the country at that time!) and devoured most of the articles on Dragondoor. The rest is history.
Shell has been teaching kettlebell training since 2017 and has assisted at RKC certifications with Andrea DuCane, and is proud to host regular RKC technique workshops as co-Team Leader with her partner, Craig Gilkes, out of RKC HQ in the UK.