What you won't see at your first Mixed Martial Arts class at St. Louis Training Circle

If you've attended a traditional martial arts class, you might expect our Mixed Martial Arts classes to follow a similar format. Upon entering the room, you might expect to see a group of students in white karate gi's - lined up in order of rank. Rank is shown by the color of the belt around the students waist. Teachers and instructors might be informally chatting about the night's martial arts lesson in the corner. There might be various posters on the wall of ancient asian masters and virtues such as "Respect" and "Self-Confidence" and "Self Esteem."

You would expect to see people standing in wide stances, and performing techniques in the air - or against compliant training partners who "let" their partner perform the technique. Often the moves are flashy or supposedly use some "mystic energy" (instead of physics, muscle, and mechanics.)

You would expect to see people sparring in a manner that looked more like a kid's game of "tag" performed at close range. In these "sparring matches" the rules are often so unrealistic as to actually make your self-defense WORSE for having trained that way.

You would expect to see people testing for the next belt - but with a testing method that does not clearly show the student is becoming more capable. Much like the class itself, the test would have the student performing techniques in the air, or against a mostly compliant training partner. Any sparring for the test would just be a repeat of the same pointless game of "tag" performed during class time.

You would expect to see people bowing to their teacher, and calling the teacher "Sir" or "Ma'am" or "Sensei" or "Guro." You would expect to hear people calling fighting techniques by complex terms spoken in a foreign language.

You won't find any of that here at St. Louis Training Circle Mixed Martial Arts Club. If you want to train that way, open the yellow pages to the martial arts listings, close your eyes, and pick most any of the schools listed. Schools like that are common; we do things a different way.

Hearing that, you might expect to walk in and see some scene from Fight Club: half-dressed pretty boy, loaded with hair gel, preaching neo-anarchy and prehistoric concepts of masculinity while he leads the room in horrifically brutal competitions.

Having seen that movie, you might think the instructor would behave like a drill seargant, screaming his orders and degrading you with neo-buddhist cliches. You might expect to do push-ups as punishment and shaving your head to be a requirement.

You might expect to see bloody (or even broken) noses, people getting knocked out in class, black eyes and bullshit attitudes. You might expect, at one of our MMA classes, to find a "learn by getting beat up until one day you are no longer getting beat up" method of training and a bunch of injured, toughened veterans sizing you up the second you walk in.

We don't have any of that here, either. We're pretty sure there might be a couple of schools like this in the area. If you hunt around, you'll probably find one. But that's not how we do things at St. Louis Training Circle.

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