Mixed Martial Arts. (MMA)

Here at Lethal Edge MMA, our Mixed Martial Arts program incorporates several different martial arts and techniques such as Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing, grappling, and much more. Although MMA is a combat sport, self-control fairness and respect for your opponent and training partners is greatly enforced and emphasized in our training.

Our instructors strive to provide quality workouts while at the same time providing you with the instruction needed to learn or improve upon your martial arts and MMA skills. Our MMA program is designed for students of all levels — there are beginners, intermediate, and advanced students in every class.

Our facility is fully equipped with plenty of heavy bags, hanging bags, speed bags, grappling dummies, as well as an 18ft. (6 meters) Octagon training cage that makes us number one for MMA training. In class you will be utilizing this equipment plus more in order to maximize your MMA training!

The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be traced back to the ancient Olympic combat sport of Pankration. Various mixed style contests also took place throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s. The combat sport of Vale Tudo that had developed in Brazil from the 1920s was brought to the United States by the Gracie family in 1993 with the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is currently the largest MMA promotion company worldwide. Prior to the UFC, professional MMA events had also been held in Japan by Shooto since 1989.

In due course, the more dangerous Vale Tudo style bouts of the early UFC’s were made safer with the implementation of additional rules, leading to the popular regulated form of MMA seen today. Originally promoted as a competition with the intention of finding the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat situations, competitors were pitted against one another with minimal rules. Later, fighters employed multiple martial arts into their style while promoters adopted additional rules aimed at increasing safety for competitors and to promote mainstream acceptance of the sport