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Combats Sports Academy opened its doors in September 2009 in Dublin, CA. and offers a variety of programs such as KravMaga, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu and Cross Fit. The academy has a full size ring, a caged off area for Jiu-Jitsu, a section for heavy bags and a Cross Fit area. Combat Sports Academy is owned by Kirian Fitzgibbons and MJ Hamid. Kirian Fitzgibbons, Head Coach of Combat Sports Academy brings his extensive background of various styles and experience to the martial arts world. He is the USMF Coach, Certified Defensive Tactics Instructor, Firearms Instructor, former IKKC Kickboxing Champion, Certified Instructor with Tony Blauer’s PDR/Spear System, KravMaga Instructor and was also featured in the books “Complete KravMaga” and “KravMaga for Beginners”.

JiuJitsu classes at Combat Sports Academy are taught by Ishma Mota, from Carlson Gracie School and Menotaro Nogera School in Brazil. Ishma Mota started his training at age 6 under his father who was a Jiu-Jitsu teacher. In the US he had trained with Cesar Gracie and is on the Cesar Gracie Team. Ishma mentioned that Cesar Gracie is like a father to him. Ishma has had his 2nd Degree Blackbelt for 6 years and teaches his classes as a professor would at a college. He prepares the entire week’s lesson on Sunday so the class is organized, well planned and focused. Ishma believes everything comes from hard work. He stresses you have to pass on positive attitude, positive words and at the end, actions speak louder than words.

Cross Fit at Combat Sports Academy is a dynamic, conditioning and core strengthening class that is taught by Cross Fit Head Coach Will Blaker. In his classes you will learn teamwork, while doing functional workout movements that strengthen and condition your body. The motto is “competition brings out the intensity”. During his classes you will see everyone help each other to achieve their individual goals while having fun. Will Blaker helps his students to challenge themselves and through that process helps them to achieve success. The academy offers a free Cross Fit class on Saturdays at 10 am, for more information regarding this offer, please contact Combat Sports Academy.

Other classes taught at Combat Sports Academy are listed below:
Muay Thai – Coach Kirian
Boxing – Coach Greg Pearson
Wrestling – Coach Taylor McCorrison
KravMaga – Kirian Fitzgibbons
Kids KravMaga (Ages 6 and above) – Jessica Fitzgibbons

For more information please visit csagym.com
Address: 7100 Village Parkway
Dublin, CA 94568
Phone Number: (925) 230-8442

Steve Del Fierro has held the following titles:
- IAMTF Jr. Lightweight USA Champion
- IFCA California State Lightweight Champion
- IAMTF Jr. Welterweight Western Champion
- ISKA Pacific Coast Welterweight Champion

A bit about Dave Camarillo, he started Judo at the age of 5; his father was an instructor, founder and head coach of South Valley Judo Club, Bakersfield, Calif. and took Dave and his brother, Dan to practice every day. The martial arts culture was part of his everyday life. He competed nationally and internationally and did very well. Dave had earned his Judo blackbelt at age 17. He then started branching out at age 19 and started training bjj, he became a blackbelt under Ralph Gracie at age 27. Dave is the creator of Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu, blending Judo and Jiu-Jitsu creating an unstoppable ground game. He is well respected amongst his peers. Dave trains and corners some of the greatest UFC fighters. Many top fighters around the world sought Dave’s services. Dave has also been working with Klint Klass, CEO of mmafaestro.com, seventh degree black-belt in Karate and a black-belt in Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu under Dave. Mmafaestro offers online instructions from top fighters and instructors from around the world. For more information on regarding martial arts website training tools and online lessons, please visit mmafaestro.com. Dave Camarillo, at the age of 33 has accomplished so much and at the same time enjoys and appreciates life, a true role model in martial arts.

Surgical Strike/Street Survival™ seminars are held at VIPMMA under Dr. Joe Bannon, creator and founder of Surgical Strike/Street Survival™. This system incorporates Boa Constrictor, the art of joint locks; breaking; crushing; pressure point, a flow approach to edged weapon attack and defense, dealing with gun point, dealing with more than one opponent at a time and many more street situations that can arise. Dr. Joe Bannon has combined ancient arts with modern street fighting, street awareness and science. This system was initially designed for law enforcement, special operations and executive protection communities that has been now offered to the public. Joe Bannon’s Surgical Strike DVD series and documentary is in production with Manastorm Productions, release date will be announced on VIPMMA.NET and VINCITMAGAZINE.COM

Dr. Joe Bannon Ph.D.
Master instructor in Tactical Police Street Combat, Dignitary Protection and Specialized Martial Arts, Special Agent; Tactical Commander and the Chief Defensive Tactics / Police Combat Instructor and Tactical Combat Program Developer for the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice in Los Angeles, California. 28-year veteran of law enforcement and former task force agent with the United States Secret Service. Supreme Grand Master and is ranked as a 10th degree black belt under the authority of the United States Martial Artist Association. Disciple and instructor of Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi martial arts temple in southern California. Masters certification in Authentic Shaolin Dim Mak; Traditional Chinese Medicine Philosophy and Pressure Point Fighting. Doctorate Degree (D.Ch.) in Holistic and Allopathic Health Science as well as an additional Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Theocentric Clinical Psychology.

For more information, please visit VIPMMA.net
5627 Stoneridge Drive Suite 317-318
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Tel. 925.416.7701

Set inside Milpitas Health and Fitness Club, you will find Unlimited MMA. A gym that offers mixed martial arts, kickboxing and crossfit. Rudi Ott, the owner and head coach of Unlimited brings his intensive martial arts background to the fore front to teach his students to become strong and well respected fighters in the martial arts community.

We had the pleasure of witnessing a day of training at Unlimited. The class first started off with a crossfit circuit, to enhance the fighters’ cardiovascular endurance, build stamina, strength and explosive power, along with increasing speed, agility, balance, and coordination. After the crossfit circuit the students practiced light sparring with gear and progressed into full force, full contact sparring. Please keep in mind that all students that were there on that particular day were highly skilled and experienced fighters. Unlimited does offer classes for beginners, where sparring is not allowed, and from there the student would progress accordingly in their own training.

Unlimited MMA is known to build champions in the kickboxing arena as well as MMA. They have three amateur kickboxing champions and one MMA fighter currently competing in MMA and Kickboxing events.

Unlimited MMA offers, a great deal to their students, they learn discipline, conditioning, martial arts and competitive skills by having the opportunity to test their skills in the ring or cage.

Coach Rudi Ott
- World Champion Kickboxer
- 3-TIME NATIONAL AMATUER CHAMPION
- 3-TIME NATIONAL TEAM MEMBER
- IKF US PRO MIDDLEWEIGHT SAN SHOU CHAMPION
- ISKA US PRO SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT SAN SHOU CHAMPION
- IKF INTERCONTENINTAL SAN SHOU CHAMPION
- IKF SAN SHOU MIDDLEWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION

When did you open your gym?
In November 2005

How many students do you have?
Over 250 students and with crossfit around 350

What do you expect out of your students who fight?
I basically expect them to work hard and to fight with heart and passion.

I noticed you have a lot of amateur fighters that are winning titles on a consistent basis now, as a coach what is it that you are doing to help them achieve this?
I think as far as coaching at the gym, when I first opened I wanted to make sure our gym was going to be successful so I had to concentrate more on what makes a gym successful by getting multitudes and masses. Not everyone is going to be a fighter so you create classes that general public are going to enjoy but also be able to learn aspects of real fight training so through that process you can then start building them into the fight process so the first couple of years that was my focus. It was after that I started people in fight training and I started putting my energy into the fight training. The most important thing in any fight program or in any fighter or any coach is to believe in what you are doing then that confidence comes out in you. When you train your fighters and tell them this is going to work, then their confidence is going to come out of that. Fight gyms do not have a great difference in what they do. There are only so many different types of punches, different kicks and different types of submission that you can do. The difference is the energy you put into those individuals. So the first couple of years my energy was really based on growing the business and having a successful gym. Now I am at the place I can start putting more energy into my individual fighters and I think that within the last year its starting to show within my fighters, which is my challenge as a coach is be able to do all those things not just run a business and have a successful gym but to also have champion fighters. Not every coach and gym can do that, some gyms are very good having fight programs and they produce big fighters but they lack being able to train the ordinary person on how to condition themselves and how to train as a fighter and vise versa. There are gyms that have very good conditioning programs but have no fighters whatsoever. That’s a great challenge, how do you do both? And I think we have a great element within our program that allows for both of those programs.

I noticed that you have a background in Wu Shu, Kung Fu, San Shou, Internal Martial Arts and Kickboxing, is there anything else you want to do in martial arts?
I think no matter what you do within martial arts, martial arts is a physical expression of you internal expression of your internal manifestation, we all have that in us and we want to bring that out of ourselves. Creativity is in every human being; how we do we bring that out? I started off in traditional martial arts because that’s all that was out there at that time and then when I came back to martial arts at a later age that’s when I wanted to make it real and there’s no other way to make it real than to fight so through Wu Shu and traditional Kung Fu I found San Shou which is Chinese style kickboxing,….I fell in love with the sport mainly because San Shou meant free fighting. San Shou allows for throws, it allowed me to be dynamic within the fighting arena. Now in mixed martial arts, there’s even a greater expression of that.

At some point, my body is going to fail me and I’m not going to be able to punch and kick people with maximum intensity, I will be older. At that point my energy will start coming back in and I will have to go back to some of the internal martial arts I did before as far as Tai Chi and Qi Gong to keep myself strong and to keep that expression alive within myself.

What are the three things that makes your coaching different from everyone else?
Those are always hard questions because you don’t know what each coach brings. I think what I bring as a coach is passion for what I do, one, intensity… intensity in what you do, within that passion and then lastly, understanding….. is being understanding that every person is an individual and there is an individual process about bringing a fighter out in most people.

What’s the most difficult thing about being a coach?
It’s a thankless job at times. As a coach you are supposed to give and as people we want to feel like we’re giving to get it back but that’s not always true. Sometimes you give and there isn’t a reward for all that giving but you can’t stop doing it because of that. Its my duty as a coach to give those people as much as I can and get involved because that’s what’s going to make those people successful whether they are successful or not.

In the next five years where do you expect yourself to be in your coaching career?
I don’t look that far into the future. I focus my energy on the present to maximize the potential of things to come.

www.unlimitedmma.com

Ohana…means family in the Hawaiian language and it was one of the main words used at the Dragons Den found in Union City, CA. I had the pleasure to see a Dragons Den sponsored seminar at a local school gym. Instructors from other Kajukenbo schools came as well to show their support by teaching lessons that day. Students from different schools lined up together to pray and then they started warming up. It was great to witness such great synergy amongst Martial Artists.

What is Kajukenbo? Kajukenbo is a mixed martial art. KAJUKENBO is an acronym and stands for:KA: Karate, JU: Judo/Jujitsu, KEN: Kenpo, BO: Western Boxing & Chinese Boxing (Gung Fu). This art is known for takedowns, joint and limb destruction, and fast strikes to vital areas. The art originated on the island of Oahu, Hawaii in 1947. The creation of the art was to deal with local crime, and to help the people defend themselves from U.S. Navy sailors who would start fights in the city.

Like most Kajukenbo schools, Dragons Den started in a garage and grew from there. Sigung Jeff Macalolooy, owner and instructor, of Dragons Den was introduced to the art at age 5. He started training at a bingo hall behind his local church. From age 5 to 18 Sigung Jeff trained in various garages, backyards, and at the park. It wasn’t until 2002 when Dragons Den had a formal building to train in. Now Sigung Jeff owns one of the most sought after martial arts schools in Northern California.

Dragons Den has a mixture of old disciplines and modern fighting styles. Sigung Jeff Macalolooy and his students emanate the passion, discipline, honor, respect and strong fighting skills that are now hard to find in modern times.

Someone to look for in Pro MMA fighting would be his brother, Sifu Jon Macalolooy, he started his training under Sigung Jeff Macalolooy. It was an honor to be in the presence of both brothers; two humble, respectful and yet dangerously skilled Martial Artists.

Look for Jon Macalolooy, Pro MMA fighter, who will be covered in our up coming issues….

For more information on Dragons Den, please visit their website www.DragonsDenMMA.com
Dragons Den MMA
2843 Whipple Road
Union City, CA 94587
510-477-6800