Extremely strong stand up program for Muay Thai and a good boxing conditioning class. Had some trouble with their BJJ program as their replacement coach was having Visa problems and couldn’t get into the country from Brazil. Those problems are in the past and David Oliveira has been there now a few months, and he is a phenomenal instructor. Amir Sadollah still stops in to train when he is visiting his family in Richmond.

I consider this school mostly a Muay Thai school with an improving BJJ program. The facilities have limited space for the number of students.

The only problem I have: As soon as I walked in the school, I was swarmed with “so do you want to fight.” As a female, and if you are slightly athletic, people try and force you to compete assuming that you are there to stay. I currently do compete, and I have this “issue” at almost every school I have been at in Richmond, but I have to say that it is pretty annoying. I should get the final say as to when I am ready. Gyms now are just looking for people to fill fight cards, so I just searched around for another gym.