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FIST offers a unique blend of Mixed Martial Arts including Krav Maga, Kung Fu, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu and Submission Grappling, with classes designed specifically for children, youths, teens and adults.
We offer professional training, with the students’ safety as our number one priority. We understand that many people cannot afford to wear a black eye to work or school and for that reason we closely monitor the level of engagement.
MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is the general term used to describe the convergence of striking, grappling, and submission techniques as well as self- defense skills.
MMA's history can be traced back as far as 648 BC.
For thousands of years, the martial arts were shrouded in mystery. Each style or system asserted that is was the best; its masters unbeatable. Only a few individuals, most notably the late Bruce Lee, dared to question the way traditional arts were taught.
Today, the top combatants are serious professional athletes— highly cross-trained in a variety of the arts that form the foundation of MMA. The sport has taken the globe by storm and remains one of the fastest-growing, fanatically popular forms of athletic competition in the world.
Krav Maga was developed in Israel. All the techniques focus on maximum efficiency in real-life conditions. Krav Maga generally assumes that the individual attacking will have no mercy; therefore, as a response the attacks and defenses are intended only for use in potentially lethal threat situations with the aim to neutralize and escape as rapidly and safely as possible.
Crippling attacks to vulnerable body parts, including groin and eye strikes, headbutts, and other efficient and potentially brutal attacks, improvised use of any objects available, and maximizing personal safety in a fight, are emphasized.
Kung Fu (Children/Youth program only) entails long strikes and kicks that typify the Northern Shaolin Chinese martial arts systems. This art includes basic stance training, empty hand forms, weapon training to improve coordination and continuous sparring.
Muay Thai Kickboxing is referred to as "The Art of the Eight Limbs", as the hands, shins, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in this art. A practitioner of Muay Thai thus has the ability to execute strikes using eight "points of contact," as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (fists, feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts.
Jiu-Jitsu / Grappling is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and chokeholds to force an opponent to submit or be knocked out depending on what submission method is used. It promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant. It primarily uses Judo takedowns to gain the dominant position.
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