I have been thinking about doing mma for a while just never knew where to look out here. Thanks for the links.

 

http://www.eastwindacademy.com/



I trained here for a month. I only quit cause of money issues and trying to save for the wedding.

They have a great fighter program and the instructors are really friendly and professional. We have a guy in our Squadron that trains there too who has fought in the local King of The Ring contests and done really well.

I think they have a great program/ structure and are willing to go the extra mile if you are and wont let you run into a ring too early.

 

http://www.thaiboxing.com/schools/sc...ty.php?id=2977

It's this place called Global on Centerville, went there for a while but stopped for the same reasons Will did. I plan on going back shortly cause some of the guys I used to work with are still going. I know at least three of the guys training there have fought in King of the Ring events are are pretty good. It was around $120 a month for three to four classes a week. Or you could buy a punch card for $100 good for 10 classes whenever you wanted to make it.

 

i used to train at hybrid academy before all this mma hype nonsense with the ifl...

good school, but pricey.

 

IFL doesn't really have hype I think you mean UFC

 

no if you knew what i was talking about hybrid has an ad on IFL. this means many newbies will be showing up trying to be fighters. i trained there way back when ken parham was the jiu jitsu coach there. I hear everything is different now. better or worse, i dunno...

oh and global is a nice school i drove by there one day, it's small but they know their stuff from what i hear. a guy from there beat the sh1t out of me in my first mma fight.

 

The guy that runs it (Mateo) is a bad mofo. They do a lot of good training there, well worth the price.

 

... not funny... nice try...

 

Thier staff rotates very often to be a terribly consistant school, very small building and last time I was there very poorly equipped.

Hybrid is cheaper than 90% of the other schools listed in this thread, with rather good instruction. They had Judo, Submission no gi wrestling, mma class and kick boxxing.

For a complete team they are a good palce to train MMA.

For sport specific Kickboxxing or BJJ you are better off else where.

 

oh also the event at that woodlake drive place is called king of the ring, the owner of vbmma got the ball rolling on that one they have one every few months at various places around va.