Triad Mixed Martial
Arts (Vale Tudo) |
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A GREAT OPPORTUNITY
If
you want to learn Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Triad Mixed
Martial Arts Academy has a great opportunity for you.
Whether you are a beginner or have previous experience,
we will teach you every aspect of the sport and help you
achieve the highest level of performance. Our clientele
includes people interested in fitness, self-defense and
even those with the goal of one day becoming a
professional fighter. Whatever your goal may be, we can
help you make it happen.
The
Academy Atmosphere
Our academy operates in an atmosphere of respect,
discipline, honor and self-control. We do not tolerate
bad attitudes, bragging, trash-talking, foul language,
vulgar behavior, verbal or physical abuse. We build
martial artist with outstanding character.
Only
One Academy
There’s only one academy in Alabama that can say it has
the highest ranked Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (BJJ) Black Belt
in the state. There’s only one academy in Alabama that
can say it has more BJJ Black Belts than any academy in
the state. We invite you to take advantage of the
opportunity to train at that academy. Triad Martial Arts
Academy. Come to one class and we believe you’ll come
back.
WHAT’S IN
THE MIX?
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu
Every successful mixed martial artist competing today
studies Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (BJJ). It was the Gracie
family-Gracie Jiu-jitsu- that started the Ultimate
Fighting Champion competition. You will learn Brazilian
Jiu-jitsu under the direct guidance of the highest
ranked BJJ Black Belt in Alabama.
Striking
No one can have a successful MMA career without being
able to strike effectively. You will learn to punch with
the effectiveness of a skilled boxer, kick like a top
level kickboxer and use your knees and elbows like a
muay thai fighter.
Clinch-fighting
Every fighter needs the ability to effectively clinch
with an opponent and fight from the clinch. We will
teach you how it’s done.
Throws & Takedowns
Being able to throw and/or take you opponent down is a
critical skill in MMA. You will learn tried and true
throws and takedowns as well as how to avoid being
thrown and/or taken down yourself.
Fitness Training
No mixed martial artist can reach their full potential
as a fighter without focusing on fitness. We offer
special classes for your benefit that specifically focus
on getting you in your best shape.
Defined Curriculum
All of our classes are curriculum based.
Team
Competitions
You will have the opportunity to compete in regular
team competitions. These competitions will include the
following:
Fitness Competitions
Boxing Bouts
Kickboxing Bouts
MMA Bouts
Grappling Competitions and more
Triad Mixed Martial Arts History
Ten years ago Johnny Lee Smith started a tradition of
training that has yielded the best equipped congregation
of martial artists ever to be seen in the state. It was
a Saturday morning class where he taught the most
effective striking for actual combat that he had
cultivated over a career of martial arts training. He
combined this seamlessly with his encyclopedic knowledge
of takedowns and grappling without a gi. These sessions
became the foundation of Triad Vale Tudo.
It was a highly technical system of fighting that places
as much emphasis on timing and economy of motion as the
actual techniques themselves. These elements become
important when exhaustion enters the picture. Anyone
can resist very hard for one minute but, “If you can’t
fight when you’re tired, you can’t fight” says Tony
Sullivan the Triad jiujitsu blackbelt who normally
teaches the Saturday class. “I was lucky. Johnny built
me from scratch. Back then no one knew how to really
fight. All you had was spooky martial arts and movies
to go by. Johnny could read a guy’s movements and tell
you what he was going to do next. He gladly blew the
lid off all the scary death touches. He’d say, ‘In a
traditional way you’d strike like this because it was
thought to use chi. Well that’s a bunch of bull.’”
It is a tradition
that continues today. At Saturday class you can be
assured you will get the best fight training available
anywhere. Tony says, “The proof is in the level of the
students. They have the ability to beat people at their
own game; out-wrestling wrestlers, tapping submission
fighters. Last month a young national champion boxer
came in and ended up getting out-boxed by people he’d
never heard of. If this sounds incredible I urge you to
drop by. It can be a difficult class physically and
it’s not for everyone. But the people who like it,
really like it.”
In Triad Vale Tudo classes the sport of Mixed Martial
Arts is taught with great care and detail so that you
can learn the essential techniques to become a
well-rounded fighter. These techniques will equip you
with the tools necessary to strike effectively with your
hands, feet, knees, and elbows; how to fight from the
clinch; how to execute and defend takedowns and throws;
and how to properly defend yourself and inflict damage
on your opponent on the ground using strikes and
submissions. Triad Vale Tudo classes are delivered in a
controlled professional atmosphere, in a way that is
beneficial to participants of all skill levels.
Additionally Triad also teaches the original brutal
style of Vale Tudo (which in Brazil means "anything
goes") as seen in the first bareknuckle Ultimate
Fighting Championships which included face stomps and
headbutts prior to heavier emphasis on athlete safety.
Triad Vale Tudo is meant to prepare students for MMA
competition as well as real life self defense. |
