The right gym culture

Smart Training methods – Not just everyone smashing each other in every session. Using progressive resistance and trying to learn and improve with each round of sparring or rolling rather than treating every round like a fight.

Focus on important fundamental techniques – We work on high percentage techniques 99% of the time. If you get those working well then its easy to add the rubber guards, berimbolos and flying heel hooks to your game. If you start with the fancy flavour of the month techniques you’ll never get them to work.

Focus on continual improvement – working on getting better every session, improving your game by 1% every day and after a year you’ll be 365% better. This is a long slow process but you get better results than just training hard for 4 weeks leading up to a fight and then slacking off.

We have a culture of more experienced members helping the new guys and turning them into better training partners – This benefits everyone, New people get better quicker and experienced people have more quality training partners. The opposite to this is gyms where the people who’ve been training for 6 months consider themselves too good to waste their time on the new people.

We have a friendly atmosphere – Theres no need to convince people that you’re a tough guy if you actually have the fights, wins and belts to prove it. Toughness is how you train and fight not how you act.

We still maintain the atmosphere of a martial arts academy. Everyone lines up, follows the rules, shows respect to their training partners, keeps the place clean and hygienic.

We don’t disrespect other gyms or teams. I think if you spend all your time talking about how bad other gyms or teams are it shows insecurity, we focus on making ourselves and our students the best that they can be in every session rather than worrying about what others are doing.

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