No experience is necessary. We teach beginner through professional. Honestly most of our members sign up without having done any kind of martial art, and often out of shape.

In general we are an adult gym, we try and keep ages 18 and up, but we do have a little leeway. Ultimately 16 is about the youngest we are willing to have a member, and that requires a parent or guardian to sign the waiver as well.

Some of our most constant and dedicated members are women. Certainly women are the minority in the sport, but you can usually expect to see at least a few girls in class on any given night.

That depends on the classes you want to take. In general you'll want a cup and mouth guard. That will pretty much cover our grappling classes. For boxing you'll need boxing gloves. Kickboxing will require shin pads. That's pretty much it. Members do provide their own gear(community gear is just not sanitary), but we provided different sets of pads, headgear, etc.

Gym shirts are required to participate in the classes. The basic gym T is $20, and has a place for your name. We also have various fight shirts that can be worn for $25, and long sleeve rash guards for $45. Shirt availability depends on our inventory levels, so depending on size we may not have a specific type of shirt in stock.

Sort of. We can take all purchases with cards(Amex or MC only), cash or check, but we do need a card on file for the month to month membership. You can still pay with cash or check, but you must do so before your due date, or our computer will charge your card. If you do not have funds available a $20 NSF charge will be added to your total.

Never really. The prepays automatically transition into the month to month. The month to month has a 3 month minimum commitment, but continues until you cancel (30 days notice is required). We won't cancel for you, so if you will be away let us know, otherwise charges will continue to accrue. We will do short term holds as a courtesy depending on the situation, but we won't refund months that you chose not to attend.

For the most part Ivan teaches every class himself with and assistant instructor, typically one of his trainers of a student advanced in that discipline. In the rare event that Ivan cannot come in for class, the assistant will teach in his place.

With the exception of punch card members, everyone may come to any class they want, any time they want. We recommend that beginners start off slow, 1 class in a night for a while. It's typical for someone in decent shape to attend 2 classes in a night 2-4 nights a week.

There will be some sparring. We usually try and end every class with some kind of live drill. This can be rounds of live wrestling in the wrestling class, some light to moderate sparring in boxing and kickboxing a few days a week, up to(voluntary) full contact sparring and hard wrestling between advanced students during open mat times.

Open mat is the time when the gym is open for use, but there are no classes happening. This is the time when people will come in and work on their own, with partners, coaches, etc. on what they want to work on. It's voluntary, but very helpful and typically well attended. We do this after the 8:30 class on each night, all evening Friday, and on Saturday from 12-3.

We'll help. While most of our members do not compete, competitive fighting is the core of our classes. If you are one of the few who want to fight we can advise you, put you on our team for wresting, submission wrestlings, boxing, or kickboxing fights, and transition you to mma if you wish. We train up to and including active UFC fighters.

We have everything you need here at the gym. The paperwork takes a few minutes, and we can outfit you in any gear you may lack. If you want to train the day you sign up come about 15 minutes before the class you want to attend, otherwise come in any time during our normal business hours. We are always glad to add someone to the team.