white_guilt | 04-10-2011 02:10 AM | Quote:
Originally Posted by aikenluu918
(Post 6879670)
Hey guys, I'm looking at a good mma gym for the summer. I have never had any training in the sport and would like to start kickboxing to get fit. I have fallen out of shape when i got out of high school. I checked out dynamic and was wondering if anyone had any insight on that particular gym, and if anyone has any other suggestions. | I train at Universal MMA, where the BJJ is taught by Rickson Gracie one and only Canadian black belt: Shane Rice. Dude is an amazing instructor with a great pedigree. I am also a blue belt under him. The prices at UMMA are very reasonable, but if Dynamic's your choice, then you can't go wrong with that either. Adam Ryan's a legit black belt under Carlson's highest ranked BB in Canada- Marcus Soares, aka the guy who trained Denis Kang (the best fighter Vancity has ever produced). Under Adam you'd be under the Carlson lineage- one of the most famous and successful MMA/BJJ teams to have ever been formed. Marcus himself has a school here and it's in Edmonds, so it might be a ways from you, but for pure BJJ it is one of the best in Vancouver. It probably has the highest per capita of black belts and brown belts. The best way to get good at BJJ is to get crushed and you'll get just that at Marcus's school. His style is totally no-nonsense and will toughen you up mentally and physically.
Bibiano Fernandes who is a pro-MMA fighter and probably the best current active fighter out of Vancouver just switched over to Marcus' and you'll be very fortunate to train with him. Oh and Bibiano has won the Mundials a ludicrous number of times. The Mundials are the most prestiguous BJJ competition in the world. I have been training BJJ on and off for 5 yrs now, 5 without the gi and 3 with it. I also have a friend or two whose at least a purple or higher at all the schools and so if you have any questions feel free to shoot me a PM. |