This week I went to three different gyms to look at what they had to offer. In this first blog entry I’ll be discussing the first two gyms that I got to check out.
The first gym that I visited is called Vision Martial Arts Center. It is in Plano about nine minutes away from UTD’s campus with traffic. This gym was anything but an mma gym. I could tell right away that this was a martial arts gym geared towards kids because I saw window paintings of kids doing karate on the outside of the entrance to the gym. I was correct in my assumption. I went in to go talk with someone, and there was a young woman at the front desk that looked very much like she could be an elementary school teacher. After speaking to her for a few minutes I gathered that it was a karate gym primarily for children. In fact, it didn’t sound too far off from a form of daycare center. If you visit their website: http://www.vmacplano.com/ you’ll find that the homepage has a video on it that shows mostly kids getting trained by adults. Disappointed, I scratched off this one on my list of gyms to check out.
The next gym that I went to is called Fuller MMA Time. It’s located on Spring Valley Road in Richardson 18 minutes away from UTD’s campus with traffic. I don’t actually know too much about this gym yet, but what I do know so far is good. It’s got a variety of classes available that are apparently taught by professionals. The first thing that I noticed upon entering this gym was that they had their own octagon in the corner of the room. That’s a pretty clear indicator that they actually host organized cage fighting. The reason I don’t know that much about this is gym is that I visited it during their off hours unfortunately. They happened to have one person working the desk at the time who told me all of this, but I didn’t get any information on specific class scheduling or pricing. I did learn that I could come in for a trial class on Tuesday at 5pm. So, I will do a follow up on this soon and let you all know how that goes, and what new things I will have learned about this gym.
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Hey, Parks.
ReplyDeleteI like how consistent the narrative of your blog plays out. It seems like you know a lot about MMA, and know exactly what you are looking for in a gym.
I'm not very familiar with MMA or yourself; could you tell us more?
MMA nice! I love martial art; in fact I grew up watching and learning martial art, typically kung-fu. MMA is a totally different level from what I learn, but I am very interested of learning curve in MMA style. In fact I wonder if it’s all grapples moves? Whatever it is, please inform us! We would like to know more. Keep at it and don’t give up finding a full fledge MMA training gym. Don’t forget to send us some photos because a picture says a thousand words haha. Oh yeah about the blog I like the style of the background and text, it really stands out.
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