LOUISVILLE ELITE COMBAT is an excellent school for MMA training. Whether you are training for competition, self defense, or just want good conditioning, LEC is the school you want. With access to weight training and cardio equipment, success is within your reach.

LEC is a great gym with a great atmosphere and great instructors. THe guys who come to learn all have great attitudes and personalities. We all joke around with each other and they to make it fun to learn and understand. So if you want the best around come to LOUISVILLE ELITE COMBAT.

Senor Jack

Please contact LECS directly…their info is right above amigo! Good luck.

FYI Jeremy, Japanese JJ was around long before BJJ was here. Someone sounds like a bitter man. Oh, and the instructor actually is a black belt–you might want to do some research before you blast someone publicly. Are you the Jeremy in the article that the coach makes “furiously tap the mat with his free hand?” Yep, direct quote.

PS-I train with LEC and I can vouch, those guys are for real. I’ve never had such a workout, learned so much, or been in an atmosphere that was ridiculously tough and still taught me.

Jeremy: FYI Chris has been Recognized by the Gracie’s as a black belt. That’s why you can’t hang with the best.

Jeremy, what you fail to realize is that no one would be dumb enough to pose as a BJJ blackbelt with the advent of the internet and BJJ’s unique ability to actually track a persons lineage. If someone did that it would be beyond the convention of a normal poser, it would move into the higher echelons of idiocy. I’m sure that Chris would be more than happy to provide documentation that he is in fact a BJJ blackbelt and then you will look like a person who has a reasonable amount of skepticism when certain claims aren’t sufficiently proven. In my book that’s stupid.

I’ve tried LEC before and while it wasn’t my cup of tea (I’m more of a coffee drinker LOLRMFAOHAHAHEHE) and while it wasn’t exactly the most sanitary or quality place to train I did get a work out. They have some tough guys and everyone knows that tough is a universal equivalent to technical ability. And Japanese Jiu Jitsu is good too. Think about it like this: BJJ is like a Porsche. It’s new, faster, better, and is improved beyond most vehicles and is tried and tested to be a reliable, fast car. JJJ is like a Pinto. Sure it may not be fast, or reliable and it’s older so the Porsche has more improvements but a Pinto can get you from A to B. And it’s cheaper. And isn’t that what really counts?

Chris bowman is not a black belt. I have known him for years and have tapped him many times, and never been tapped out by him. I am a pro fighter and bjj purple belt under black belts mike yanez and pablo popavitch.

I see this all the time and is disrespectful to people like me and other martial artist that have worked years in bjj to get were we are. This dude is 0-1 in ammy mma and if you can’t win in ammy mma if someone gave you a black belt in bjj, you better throw it back at them and ask them what they are smoking.

Here is a link to his stats:
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=stats.fighterDetail&pid=E25CFDD8353BD169

Stop the trolling losers!
LEC is incredible. I know because I trained there.

I was really nervous going into a PROFESSIONAL MMA GYM for the first time. I expected the atmosphere to be insanely intense, and not beginner friendly. Boy was I wrong, IN A GOOD WAY. At the end of my first class, I got to do live free-training with some of the Elite Squad. Instead of them bulldozing over me, I found them to be very soft. Many of them seemed to be training in a very sickly manner. I felt absolutely no strength. The best of all was Mr. Bowman. He was less like a fighter and more like a living, breathing bucket-full of Play-Do. I could just roll him up into a ball and make little shapes out of him. Really incredible stuff to see in this day and age.

If you’re slightly overweight to severely obese (like me) then LEC is perfect for you. Heck, just look at the head trainer. He is living, breathing proof that literally anyone can open an MMA gym. No skills necessary, and that’s so inspiring.

LEC 4 LIFE!

Other MMA gyms are not 100+ dollars. Well not all of them. I go to Derby City and pay 69 a month for unlimited classes. I am currently unemployed so I can’t afford a huge payment. The good thing is that with all the available time I am able to get 2 a days with either the bjj training or the boxing team which is getting ready for some boxing competitions. If you like where you train than thats fine and enjoy the training you get but definitely don’t believe that every gym in the city charges over 100 dollars just because someone says it does.

your instructor looks like he’s been tapped out by Ronald McDonald on a daily basis.You’re right people should train at your gym if they don’t want to get in shape.I see you guys learned to tap out at least that’s what you spent all your time doing at the ArnoldS.

Number 1 in Kentucky? Come on bro you guys are not number 1 in KY. What about Derby City MMA, CORE, Four Seasons MMA, the list goes on. Those schools have been around for years. I’ve been training for a few years here at Derby City with the Cannon brothers and all the other black and brown belts there and I have never heard of you until seeing you guys get beat at some fights. Again I don’t care if people want to train out there with you guys. If that is what you guys like then thats fine. However, just because you said you’re number 1 doesn’t make it true. Me saying I’m Michael Jordan doesn’t mean I am a basketball icon and have millions in the bank does it? Also if you want to train like good fighters do you then you need other coaches. You can’t learn everything from 1 dude. Stop saying you’re number 1. You guys can’t grapple, box or anything. Period. Shut up and go crawl back into your variety room in the gym since you guys are number 1 and don’t have your own gym. Sounds like number 1 to me!

good enough to make it to the Arnolds??? all you have to do is show up and pay your entry fee what kind of skill is that???

Lone Wolf. You’re a puppy who’s lost his way. Run along and scamper back to your pack of mongrels and mange covered poodles pretending to be wolves. Your team is a disgrace to Mixed Martial Arts and is a petty example of how charlatans can sneak there way into any venue and create for themselves a niche market of fraud and misinformation. You gullible minds aren’t helping the situation, if you would educate yourselves more guys like your “coach” would not exist. Yet they persist in places where popular misconceptions are seen as gospel and validation that what you’re pretending to be doing is actually legit.

Stop breeding the same cliches and spewing tired platitudes about your toughness when the lack of evidence is on the side of your opposition. The onus is on you pup to actually prove that your gym is actually worth anything other than being a first class McDojo.

So, Lone Wolf. It seems that you are sheep in wolves clothing.

Wow! I see some hostility there. I was stationed at Ft Knox for 3 years. I’ve been to many of these gyms. I would have to say Derby city was one of the better places to train. There was no need for me to go outside the Ft Knox Area too often as Ft Knox had the best facility in Kentucky, and a damn good guy to train with Jason Keaton (Renato Tavares BJJ Black Belt). I can’t say I heard of LEC though, but that doesn’t mean anything. It’s great to see healthy compitition. Try to keep it clean on here. Be easy on one another. You can always settle it in the ring/Cage 😉

Team Regulus
Okinawa, Japan

Skill is skill in sport Martial Arts there is always a winner and a loser, it is about sportsmanship and humbleness although that seems to be fading. I have tapped out and been tapped out in a sport concept training its that training that can get you hurt by a wise Fighter! I my self like old style western boxing and pressure point strikes. if you want to be a fighter train and when you can’t be elevated by your Instructor any longer you move on …the Gym is or was a great place to train please leave ego at the door… if you have something to share it will be accepted if you have skills everyone will no. Oh and I have trained with the elite! Johhny Toco’s World Class Gym 1989-92 One of my coaches was Doc Maybe you no George Foreman he trained him… oh and this was a Pro Gym check it out. Ryu-te is what I love. Peace and Abundance to you all.

Well its all irrelevant. Bowmans gone. I am the instrustor. I got my blue from Carlson Jr. We have an awesome stand-up guy. Ten years as a pro boxer. IM no black belt but Ive been around. I know my shit and know everyone who has posted on here just about. So any questions about how we get down, taining, or who knows what, please refer them to the mats at Super Fitness, and we can answer them. Or just sit on your PC and act like you know how to fight. Best wishes.

Because fighting is not jiu jitsu. You dont need to know gogo platas, or a million Gi sweeps to make great fighters. I know the ground, probably better than you. Standing, and the in betweens better than almost anybody around here. Im not some chode that just puts anyone out there to fight cause they think they are tough. I dont do stick fighting, or half ass MMA like most of these gyms. I dont specialize in one thing and suck at the rest. I train how to technically win fights. And they dont want to pay some outrageous price to learn some half ass mma. They want to win fights. Talk is whatever, but my guys win. And will continue to win. Our training speaks for itself and Im willing to test it anytime in the future.

The difference here is the quality of instruction plus the quality of opposition with regard to training partners. You can roll with black belts, brown belts and get your ass handed to you and who are also willing to help you or you can roll with Jimmy Joe Bobby in a variety room with sub par instruction. It’s your choice.

When you have one guy teaching just about everything and there are no areas of expertise then despite any teaching ability you lose the subtle nuances and even the basics go the way of the dodo.

It’s easy to win fights when you’re fighting the redneck of the week which is the sad reality of MMA around here since damned near anyone can get registered with their mom in their corner (despite any effort on the part of the commission).

How many mma fights have you had PPerkins? Were they amateur or pro? How long have you been training MMA?

Speaking without knowing me or anything about me, or anyone else who teaches with us makes you sound like a hater, and kinda stupid, even with using all of those big fancy words. You are welcome to come on in, and see how much misinformation there is. Everyone likes to talk from behind there computer. hopefully we see you at an event or tournament. All of the informatioin on me is SuperFitnessGym.com.

I am a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu I know several of the people posting on this thread. I have a martial arts school in Louisville, Ky, we have mixed martial arts classes, no gi and gi grappling classes, and striking classes also. Just to clarify who I am. I also am probably one of the most laid back people you would meet.

Lets let the consumer make there choice on where they want to train.

Not saying that a blue belt should or shouldn’t teach, but I consider my self an old school grappler at least in Kentucky and i know a lot of people that run schools here. I tell you one common trend most of them were blue belts when they started teaching. I know first hand, my instructor was a blue belt when I started bjj and now he is a 1st degree bjj Black belt and in my opinion one of the most legit dudes out there.

There are several incredible schools in town and each has there pros and cons. Its martial arts people, on the same note Chris Bowman is a good dude, and knows a thing or two about grappling. He is a black belt in Japanese Juijitsu as mentioned before he told me straight up he was not ranked in bjj. So how was that misinterpreted I don’t know. Japanese Juijitsu is good to, just a different martial art. I did kung fu and taekwondo for years and I constantly hear that crap is weak it doesn’t work. No one says that when I drop them with a side kick, or my rolling backfist finds its mark. I am not trying to start anything or challenge anyone, but people do martial arts for there own individual reason.

Calm down everyone, if you want to train at superfitness go train there. If you want to train at CORE go train there. If you want to train with me I am glad to have you, but lets not argue about it.

Everyone has there individual reason for training.

Maybe its one of the following

Price: The economy is rough we know that maybe some gyms are too expensive in the opinion of that particular customer.

Location: If I live off Hurstbourne parkway maybe I won’t train at Derby City it is kind of far, and in my opinion that have some of the most legit guys in town, but if I am late to class everyday because I can not get there in time. Then its not for me.

Atmosphere: I call CORE MMA GYM 3000 because it is beautiful in there, the gym of the future. But it is not for everyone. Many people at my gym like the fact that everyone is really close and cool with each other, regardless of my gym size.

Instruction: So and so is a UFC champion, so and so one 8 million mundial world championships. If I walk into a gym and for whatever reason what that instructor teaches doesn’t flow with my thinking. Maybe I can’t comprehend his style of grappling I don’t know. I have trained with everyone and many people have trained with me, some instructors I keep going back to train with because what they tell me works for my style and I understand there method of teaching.

Many other reasons, sorry for the rant but lets not argue, there is room for everyone competition gives the consumer more choices and in the end we want them to win.