The GymHow did our group come together as Modern Combatives – Mixed Martial Arts? It began with each of us, on our own, in various gyms and dojos, training in martial arts and combative sports: Judo, Boxing, Wing Chun, JKD, Muay Thai. What we all had in common was we wanted a fun place to train where we could do it all: stand up striking, clinch hitting and takedowns, and ground fighting.
We came together slowly, in an abandoned indoor basketball court with no sifus, no titles and no plans -- just training and having fun. Those were and remain our primary goals. What has changed is now we have better coaching in putting our 3 games together. That coaching comes from Straight Blast Gym International. A series of chance happenings brought us together.
A training partner mentioned the SBG and Matt Thornton. Alan and Lily contacted Matt and that led to a Cory Reeves coming over for seminar. A seminar with Matt soon followed, along with a trip to an SBG spring camp.
In the meantime Jude was growing toward a completely alive format with the group he was working with. A seminar with Rory Singer got Jude hooked, and soon the group he was working with merged with the old Berkeley gym, forming MODCOM-MMA, an Affiliated Training Group with SBGi.
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