​Hybrid Krav Maga Black Belt

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KMG Krav Maga Expert Level 1

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​10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Brown Belt

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​Mitt Master Kickboxing Brown Belt

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Various BJJ competition wins at regional and national level, including IBJJF Purple Belt English Champion

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12+ years experience in various martial arts

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Ryan started regularly training in martial arts in 2011, during which time he was working in the private security industry and began pursuing martial arts for the purposes of self defence and control/restraint. To that end, Ryan wanted to gain a well rounded understanding of a range of martial arts but found that he had to train at a multitude of gyms in the south west in order to find top quality training in his various chosen disciplines, including Krav Maga, boxing, Muay Thai, MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

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Through 2011 to 2014, Ryan persevered with his training across a number of the UK’s best martial arts gyms and clubs, training daily and accumulating a range of grades, belts, qualifications and competition wins. In 2014, having completed the KMG General Instructor Course, he decided to start his own club in Bath. The club initially focused on teaching people self defence, but Ryan always had the long-term aim of running a martial arts school where students can train across disciplines under a range of highly qualified, specialist coaches without having to pay various memberships to numerous gyms and travel miles to different schools.

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Since 2014, Ryan has slowly grown the club while continuing to progress in his own training. The majority of Ryan’s training takes place under 10th Planet Swindon’s Will Stone, Krav Maga Global’s extensive training team and Matt Chapman of Mittmaster. However, Ryan also undertakes regular PT at various MMA and wrestling gyms across the UK to gain a broad skillset and has connections to a large number of professional martial artists in the area, with whom he trains on an ad hoc basis, sharing practice and development.

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Ryan first started teaching in sports halls across Bath but opened his own purpose-built training facility in 2022. Since opening his own facility, Ryan has sought out some of the best coaches in the area to achieve his goal of running a well-rounded and comprehensive martial arts school. ARCH now runs three specialist adult programmes that allow students to train daily towards their individual goals. These span Self Defence (where students train in Krav Maga, Kickboxing, NoGI BJJ, NoGi Judo and Wrestling), Martial Arts (including MMA, Kickboxing, NoGi BJJ, NoGi Judo and Wrestling) and Grappling (including NoGi BJJ, NoGi Judo and Wrestling). The club also offers two kids programmes, one aimed at self defence and one aimed at competitive 

BJJ.

BJJ Black Belt

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10+ years experience in martial arts, including BJJ, Wrestling, Judo, Muay Thai, Shaolin Kung Fu, MMA

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Joel is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Jude Samuel, who was one of the three UK black belts first promoted by Mauricio Gomes in 2005. Joel has been training in BJJ for over a decade, and has also spent a while training in wrestling and judo, and spent his twenties travelling as far afield as China and Thailand to study Muay Thai and traditional Shaolin Kung Fu.

 

Joel has had four amateur MMA fights, but would like to stress that three of them happened when he was a white belt, so he's a lot better at grappling now!

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Outside of martial arts, Joel has a decades-long interest in fitness, strength and conditioning, competing at various Strong Man and Cross Fit competitions over the years. 

5th dan Judo Black Belt

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BJJ Brown Belt 

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Former GB Team and former Britain No. 2

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30+ years judo experience 

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Matthew Hucker is a 5th 'dan' judo Black Belt and former GB Team. Matthew started judo in 1994 and achieved his black belt in 2005. From 2007 he earnt a bursary at the University of Bournemouth to train full time and a year later joined TeamBath. After a accumulation of injuries and 5 years out, Matthew rejoined the sport in 2013. From 2013 to 2018, Matthew became Britain No.2,

 

Matthew became English Silver medalist, Welsh Open Champ and British Bronze Medalist, making his way onto the GB squad. In 2020 Matthew fought for his 5th black belt, the highest grade awarded competitively. Matthew has won gold in Venray, Netherlands, has been British Judo Council Champion and competed at various IJF events internationally for GB. Matthew also loosely started learning Jiu-Jitsu in Gi from 2004 at a recreational level and holds a brown belt in the sport.

 

Since 2020, Matthew has turned his attention to NoGi. Matthew spent a year transforming his skills from Gi to NoGi before winning 4 golds at the Devon Open, Gold at Victory Grappling and leading his quintet team, 'Full Fat', to win the British SuperPro Quintet Championship. Matthew has been teaching from 2005 and has led Judokas to national and international victory.

Iranian national team gold medalist

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European gold medalist

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Former competitor and coach on the GB Olympic Athlete Program

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40+ years wrestling experience 

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Faz has 40 years of international wrestling experience as a participant and a coach. From his wrestling beginnings in his homeland Iran, Faz has excelled at the sport. He was Iranian junior and senior champion representing Iran at numerous international events and bringing 3 gold medals and 1 bronze home for his country.

 

Following his move to the UK in 1998, Faz was placed on the Olympic Athlete Programme, both competing, and supporting the Wrestling Association through coaching the national junior wrestling team. Faz won 2 gold medals for England at major European tournaments before he retired from competition in 2004.

 

Since then, Faz has coached across England and most recently has concentrated on teaching wrestling techniques to jujitsu and MMA fighters to support their takedowns and groundwork. His teaching style is interactive and hands-on and his depth of knowledge is amongst the best in the UK

Amateur Muay Thai competitor

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BJJ competitor and medalist

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4+ years experience in martial arts, including Muay Thai, MMA and BJJ

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Tom has been training Muay Thai for over 4 years, during which time he has competed in one amateur Muay Thai fight and three interclub bouts.

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He also has several year's experience in MMA and has more recently started regularly training in BJJ, becoming an active BJJ competitor and medalling in both regional and national competitions. 

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Tom's approach to coaching is encouraging, enthusiastic and inclusive to members training at all levels. In his classes, Tom integrates a range of skill-based exercises, active drills and sparring to ensure participants receive rounded and impactful instruction.

Hybrid Krav Maga Blue Belt (4 stripe)
 

KMG Krav Maga Practitioner Level 5

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Hybrid Krav Maga Instructor Course Level 1

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KMG General Instructor Course Level 2

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6+ years Krav Maga experience, 20+ years sports and fitness experience 

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Paul has been interested in all aspects of fitness for several decades, practicing yoga for over 20 years and spending a long period road racing as a cyclist. However, about 6 years ago he became interested in learning self defence. After undertaking a lot of research, Paul found that Krav Maga seemed to be recommended for self defence by many martial artists in other styles, especially as it involves training against weapons and reality based drills.

 

Paul particularly liked that the drills don’t always involve the use of force, and that compliance and deescalation are also encouraged if you think that is the best solution to the problem. He found KM to be a very practical and relatively easy to learn self defence system that utilises natural reactions and acknowledges the challenges of real-world confrontation.

 

Paul has taught in a range of settings, including various clubs and in schools across the UK. honing a solid approach to self-defence instruction and becoming a strong coach, as evidenced by his GIC Level 2 status. 

ITF Taekwondo black belt, BJJ blue belt

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Amateur kickboxing and wrestling competitor

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Founder of University of Bath BJJ Society

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10+ years martial arts experience​

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Rohan has been training in combat sports (almost) his entire life. He initially spent over 10 years in ITF Taekwondo, where he competed both nationally and internationally, achieving the recognition of black belt and, more importantly, developing a love for combat sports.

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During the 2020 pandemic, when training opportunities were extremely limited, Rohan developed a new interest in mixed martial arts, beginning MMA training as soon as he was able to in 2021. In 2023, Rohan began fighting on the local circuits, winning two amateur K1 kickboxing bouts, being awarded the opportunity to fight for a local area title and placing second in an English national wrestling tournament.

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Rohan was also promoted to BJJ blue belt under Kasson Hipkiss in 2021 and founded the University of Bath Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Society a few months later.

Qualified strength and conditioning coach

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10+ years in experience in personal training & nutrition 

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BJJ blue belt

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Background includes rugby, athletics, wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai, and Tae Kwon Do.

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Bradley embarked on his S&C journey during his rugby career, transitioning to a broader focus on Personal Training and specializing in strength and conditioning with a key focus on combat sports.

 

Throughout his decade-long career as a PT and S&C coach, Brad has successfully worked with diverse clients, including professional athletes and individuals pursuing various fitness goals.

 

With passion for performance, he takes pride in guiding people to achieve both their performance and physique goals.

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