Bill Storm, Marc Gervais and UFC Fighter Hermes Franca lead the team at East West Combat Club. Mr. Storm has been actively involved in the martial arts for 30 years and currently consults martial arts schools around the country for United Professionals. www.unitedprofessionals.com. Marc Gervais runs East West Combat Club MMA, is a 4th degree black belt and is an active MMA fighter and grappling competitor.

Hermes Franca is a professional UFC Fighter and a decorated Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Champion. Hermes is the head coach of our MMA fight team and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament team.

Muay Thai is referred to as "The Art of the Eight Limbs", as the hands, shins, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in this art. A practitioner of Muay Thai ("nak muay") thus has the ability to execute strikes using eight "points of contact," as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (fists, feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts.

Krav Maga is a military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel, which assumes no quarter will be given, and emphasizes maximum threat neutralization in a "real life" context. It came to prominence following its adoption by various Israeli Security Forces.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and chokeholds to force an opponent to submit or be knocked out depending on what submission method is used. The art is a derivative of early 20th century Kodokan Judo, which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded in 1882), based on multiple schools (or Ryu) of Japanese Jujutsu.

It promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant. BJJ can be trained for self defense, sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition.[3] Sparring (commonly referred to as 'rolling') and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition.

American Submission Grappling is similar to BJJ but its base is derived from American Wrestling. Coach Gene Mills from the 1980's United States Olympic Wrestling Team and Coach Tim Boda are the lead dogs in this program. This art focuses on completely dominating one's opponent through intense conditioning and a dominant top position, leaving no way to escape.