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What do we Teach???

We Teach Muay Thai Kickboxing, Women�s Kickboxing and Wing Chun Kung Fu

Our Instructor is Mitch Ammons

Mitch Ammons Teaches our Muay Thai Kickboxing and our Women�s Kickboxing Class and our Wing Chun Kung Fu Class. He has over 20 years of Martial Arts Training, has Instructor certifications in Wing Chun Kung Fu Under SiFu Leung, and Kickboxing under Frank Cucci, he is also a blue belt In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Pedro Sauer. He has taught in the Greenville area for over 10 years have had many successful students included our Head Jiu-Jitsu instructor James Speight.

What is Muay Thai Kickboxing?

Muay Thai, translated into English as Thai Boxing, is the national sport of Thailand and is a martial art with origins in the ancient battlefield tactics of the Siamese (or Thai) army. It evolved from Krabi-Krabong, literally sword and baton, the hand-to-hand tactics of the Thai army. The early Muay Thai bouts pitted different companies within the Siamese army against each other with few rules and no weight divisions or time limits. They became quite popular and eventually were shown in stadia across the country. In the early 20th century, time limits, boxing gloves as well as a uniform set of rules were introduced. During the latter half of the 20th century Muay Thai was exported to many countries and is now practiced by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.

Muay Thai is known as "King of the Ring" in kickboxing circles. These fights feature punches, kicks, elbows, knees, standing grappling and head-butts to wear down and knock out their opponent. Thai training methods develop devastating power, speed and superb cardio-vascular endurance as well as fighting spirit. Muay Thai training as also quite safe thanks to sophisticated pad training that evolved to keep fighters healthy between fights. Muay Thai has also proven very effective outside the ring and has been embraced enthusiastically by practitioners of a variety of self-defense, sporting, military and law enforcement activities.

What is Wing Chun?

Wing Chun is an unique high level kung fu system founded by a woman. The legend is that there was a girl named Yim Wing Chun, who lived in Fukien with her father. Yim learnt kung fu from Ng Mui, a Shaolin nun. One day, she observed a snake fighting a crane, and together with Ng, created a new kung fu style consisting of three forms. Yim deferred the naming of the style to Ng, but Ng suggested that she name the style after her own name, Wing Chun. Yim taught her husband, Leung Bo Zhou, Wing Chun. Leung taught it to another martial artist in exchange for instructions on the 6 1/2 feet pole, which Leung refined and incorporated as the staff set for Wing Chun.

Wing Chun did not gain widespread popularity until in recent times. The Chinese found Wing Chun tuition to be expensive since proficiency in the art could not be achieved without mastering "sticky hands". (Sticky hands could only be learnt one on one with personal instruction, which made it expensive). Wing Chun therefore had the dubious historical distinction of being the "kung fu for the rich kids". The master who did the most to spread Wing Chun far and wide was Yip Man. Originally from a well to do family, Yip Man studied Wing Chun in Foshan. Fleeing the turmoil of communist takeover, Yip set up schools in Hong Kong to teach Wing Chun. His most famous pupil would have to be Bruce Lee.