Adult and Children Mixed Martial Arts
classes based in Chester
Classes available at our Saltney based gym
Juniors
Junior classes are predominantly aimed to cater for children between 6 and 9 years older. We aim to help your child develop essential life skills such as confidence and self discipline. During these classes we go into some in depth technical details necessary to reach the high standards expected of our students.
Teenagers
Our teenage classes are predominantly focused on preparing students to move in to the adult groups with the correct maturity and mentality to mix and train with bigger stronger training partners.
Seniors
Senior classes contain more sparring and a higher emphasis on fitness as well as maintaining the technical aspects from our junior classes. We do not include striking headshots in either of these classes and focus on shoulder touch sparring to develop the skills of movement, timing and covering range.
MEET YOUR
TEACHER
Having attained the level of 1st degree black belt in Applied Karate at the age of 18, I went on to study a large range of disciplines. My initial digression away from Karate was to focus and compete in Kickboxing. I quickly learned that (at the time) the standard of boxing within the Kickboxing leagues was rather low, so I spent more and more time focusing my attention towards boxing alone. I was attracted by the competitive nature and extremely high standard of the sport. I boxed for 6 years and competed successfully at international level with the intention of, and opportunity, to become professional.
Although for a time I was completely focused on boxing professionally, I eventually decided on a different career path and joined the Royal Marines. I served as a Royal Marine for 6 years serving on 2 operational tours of Iraq. Upon leaving I worked for a further 8 years privately, on security operations throughout the middle east and Africa.
The very profession of being a soldier naturally attracts people who have an interest in developing themselves as students of combat, and throughout my time in the military I found myself training continuously to a high standard with other soldiers from all places and backgrounds, who had gained a plethora of martial arts experience.
Upon my return to civilian life I began training in freestyle grappling and competed to win a national title, as well as competing in various MMA competitions.
I have a varied style of martial arts which includes Karate, Boxing, Muay Thia, Wrestling and Brazilion Ju Jitsu. I will be teaching a variety of the skills I have learned to include the most effective parts of each discipline.
Mike teaches both my 9 year old daughter and 6 year old son. We picked Applied Martial Arts on great recommendation and glad we did. The kids love it, Mike has a great way of teaching and they’ve come on so far with their kicking, punching, grappling and take downs. All done in a fun, friendly and controlled environment underpinned by its values that teach the kids about Determination, Self Discipline, Excellence and Integrity.
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