The second one looks like $hit. The first thing that strikes me is that they have a webshop to buy their e-book. Which tells me that they believe that people can teach themselves martial arts at home. Which is not possible. Under black belts you can see all the people who have succeeded in getting a black belt. And there is a $hitload of people. And you shouldn't call yourself a grandmaster. This is a place that's oriented towards families and fitness. They don't produce quality fighters. The classes are often even under one hour, which is ridiculous, there are no prices listed and they have zumba. What the hell does zumba have to do with martial arts.
The third one seems at first glance to be a cheerleading school. Which has nothing to do with martial arts. They have BJJ but don't list any instructors or anything. The prices are good. Only 65$/months. But the quality of this is questionable. Then they have little ninja classes and summer camps which doesn't seem good to me.
Out of these 3 the first one seems to be the only one that is a serious gym.
@James
You're an idiot. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. You can say that MMA is not as focused as other martial arts and that is true. But it's probably one of the most rounded systems in the world for what it teaches. To go and say that MMA is $hit and to underestimate a well trained MMA fighter is pure stupidity.
MCMAP is nothing but the most basic of training . The marines don't train a lot of hand to hand combat. Why should they? They don't need that.
I would only consider the first two schools as the last one focuses a lot more on overall fitness and less on martial arts.
After looking at the first two schools the first one seems to be better established and to me looks like it would give you more tools to be successful. However I would never go to either of them. They both focus on a curriculum based around BJJ and Muy Thai. They both also offer some other arts but the other arts that they offer are ones that are almost like buzz words in Martial Arts nowadays (like silat or kempo). Although they are both martial arts (my uncle is a 6th dan in kampo and I have much respect for his art) many people who market to the public using them dont actually teach much of anything.
My recommendation is to look for a non-mma based dojo. MMA stands for MIXED Martial Arts. It is all well and good until you fight against somebody who only practices one martial art. Its like being a Jack of a trades master of none. From personal experience mma and bjj fighters cant do much of anything of they cant lock/throw/ground you. I practice Isshin-Ryu and have failed to place anything but 1st in every sparring competition I have been in. Sparring however means nothing when you are back against a will with bare knuckles. Isshin-ryu has saved my life against a man who pulled a gun on me, against men with knives and has helped me defend myself against multiple attackers. Ground and pound doesnt work so well on 3 people. Even with time in the Marine Corps and learning MCMAP, Isshin-Ryu is still the best defense I have.
You cannot give an opinion based on a website. You need to go down there and check them out for yourself.
I want to know your opinions on these dojos and whether they seem legit or not as i was looking to get back into martial arts and either taking mma or a combination of bjj and muay thai.
http://walkermmaacademy.com/
http://tamamartialarts.com/
http://www.aayaohio.net/
