Adult Mixed Martial Arts Program

All of our adult students learn the gold standard of martial arts for real world self-defense: Mixed Martial Arts.

No other style of martial arts comes close.

Mixed Martial Arts simply contends that the most optimal way to protect yourself is to become excellent in the most important skills of each style of martial art.

Imagine that you took up Karate and could punch and kick really well, but never learned how to fight on the ground?!

Karate is terrible in that scenario.

Or, imagine that you took up Jiu Jitsu, and you could protect yourself when on the ground, but you’ve never learned how to throw a punch?

Or what if there were multiple people trying to attack you? Jiu Jitsu is terrible in this scenario.

Karate, Jiu Jitsu, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Wrestling… These are all great arts that have some very important techniques and principles.

Mixed Martial Arts uses the best techniques from all of these arts, and discards all of the unrealistic techniques.

That’s why it’s the gold standard of martial arts.

Earned, not given is our motto regarding belts.

Belts are earned via highly quantifiable exams that grow harder with each new rank. Such that the first belt tests aren’t so difficult.

This ensures that we don’t demoralize students.

But, the higher you climb in rank, the harder each exam becomes. From white all the way to black.

There are many problems with training in Karate, especially training in it alone. It has some wonderful things about it, but its problems are real:

1. Students learn very little self-defense techniques on the ground.

2. As a result of competitions, many, many, many unrealistic techniques exist within Karate schools.

3. As a result of traditions, many unrealistic techniques and “forms” exist within Karate schools.

Mixed Martial Arts, on the other hand, absorbs what’s useful from Karate, and discards all of the unrealistic techniques.

Jiu Jitsu has some great qualities, to be sure. It has principles that are essential for self-defense. And yet, training in Jiu Jitsu alone is very problematic for optimal self-defense for the following reasons:

1. Jiu Jitsu is terrible for protecting yourself against more than one person.

2. Jiu Jitsu makes running away (a very important option to exercise in many self-defense scenarios) less of an option.

3. As a result of a competition/tournament focused culture, you will spend countless hours learning hundreds of techniques that simply aren’t realistic for self-defense.

Mixed Martial Arts, on the other hand, absorbs what’s useful from Jiu Jitsu, and discards all of the unrealistic techniques.

Safety briefings every class, to serve as reminders and prevent injuries.

Any emotional grappling or sparring is interrupted immediately.

This is not a cage-fighting class. It’s a beginner friendly program for adults looking for proficiency in self-defense skills. Any sparring that takes place is done in a controlled fashion.

Taekwondo is a solid martial art that has some useful techniques. But like other martial arts, it has a number of fundamental flaws:

1. A sport / tournament focus that leads to an obsession over unrealistic techniques.

2. It’s primarily kicking based, and kicking can only be optimally used when a martial artist has a good deal of space.

3. Taekwondo involves very, very little groundwork. Students who train only in Taekwondo oftentimes have no idea how to protect themselves on the ground.

We don’t waste your time. We get right down to the point in our classes. They move at a lightning pace, and we keep lectures to a minimum.

Yes, adults definitely need detailed instruction, but that shouldn’t be conflated with a prolonged and boring lecture.

Our classes move quickly so you’re not in here for 2+ hours for no good reason.

Females with females for any physical contact. Males with males for any physical contact. No man or woman will be made to touch a student of the opposite sex.

Instructors are taught how to essentially eliminate physical contact with students of the opposite sex. If physical contact must be made, it’s brief, necessary, and only on hard parts of the body (wrists, elbows, ankles). But even that is exceedingly rare.

Mixed martial artists are arguably the greatest athletes on the planet. Strength, cardiovascular endurance, mobility, agility, you name it. Our training reflects this. Though, at a pace that challenges you as an individual.

As an adult, it’s just so rare that we have opportunities for real excitement, adventure, thrill, and instinctive challenges.

Mixed martial arts will give you all of that.

It’s an adventure that will be with you in your rocking chair, many years later.