Dallas Martial Arts

The third gym that I decided to visit was a gym that’s called Dallas Martial Arts that is conveniently located on Preston just north of Frankford. It took me less then ten minutes to get there from the campus of UTD. This gym calls itself an mma gym on its website and plays itself up to be a professional gym for people interested in sharpening their mma skills. Upon entering the gym for the first time, I would have guessed that it was a legitimate mma gym. I talked to the owner for a long time (who happens to be a UT Dallas graduate) and got set up for a trial class that he said was their “Adult Core Conditioning” class. Based on the name and the way that the instructor described the course, I expected the course to be very physically challenging. A few days later when I finished the course, I realized that it wasn’t challenging at all. I barely broke a sweat. There was very minimal conditioning in the course, and the fighting techniques were taught from a self-defense, on the street, outside of the octagon perspective. There were also a handful of kids in the class that weren’t taught anything, but were rather told to practice hitting a punching bag for the entirety of the hour-long class. I was way ahead of the curve and wasn’t challenged at all. This turned out to be a gym that used the term “mixed martial arts” to attract more people when realistically, it was a non-competitive, generic self-defense school for people of all athletic ability. Aside from the fact, that it was a very disappointing experience, they tried to sales pitch me into becoming a member of their gym. That described their pricing as “dirt cheap,” and said they’d even give me a discounted rate: $119.99 a month for a maximum of four classes a week, all of which would be the same class that I had just taken. I’ve worked at enough gyms to know what a good deal is, and that was one of the worst values I’ve ever come across.

I’ve looked at three gyms so far, and two haven’t even been true mma gyms. I’m hoping that Fuller MMA Time will not be disappointing, but even if it is, it’s still an mma gym, and that’s what I’m looking to discover and compare for everyone.