Breakdown kickboxing was born out of experiences that I have had as both a student and teacher of Muay Thai, kickboxing and boxing.  When you learn certain techniques, it can be difficult to pull all the movements and nuances together into one effective action.  I found that being able to breakdown each move into a series of smaller movements made the learning and more importantly the understanding of it much more digestible… (more easily obtained)

While my exposure to combat sports happened at an early age with my family, I began training Muay Thai and kickboxing in 2008.  A funny story about how I got started; I was 15 years old in high school when I got into my first scuffle and realised I had no idea how to fight. Exhausted after fighting I had asked a friend who I knew trained at a MMA gym if I could accompany him to the gym. I walked through the doors of a little gym in a basement of a plaza and there were men, women and children punching, kicking and grappling.  I was in awe and immediately knew I was in the right place. The owner and trainer of Universal MMA was a man named Master Fred. He was an older man with a gruff voice and a chiseled body… 

My memories of my first day was pretty vivid and I would never regret it or take it back. Coming into a martial arts gym as a boy at the age I was, kids usually have egos bigger then the room they stand in.