Thunderstruck MMA offers a wide range of classes for anyone in Glendale, Peoria, and Phoenix, Arizona; any skill level and any age. Whether you are someone looking to become a serious martial artist, or just want to learn how to defend yourself and your loved ones. We have classes for you.
Our programs include both grappling and striking styles of martial arts. We are currently offering Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes for Self-Defense, Sport Jiu-Jitsu, and MMA applications.
As a part of our Self-Defense curriculum we will be teaching Basic Striking principles. We will soon be offering classes for Advanced Striking and Wrestling.
We are currently running our classes at Cactus High School in the Wrestling Room (after regular school hours).
6330 W Greenway Rd
Glendale, AZ 85306
Call us at (602) 698-8866 for a free week trial! Continue reading below to find out more about some of our beginner and advanced classes available.
Beginner Classes
Our classes for beginners are designed for people that just want to learn the basic fundamentals of mixed martial arts and self-defense. As a beginner, you can just practice techniques and drills with a partner without having to do any real sparring. On the other hand, if you are a beginner that would like to jump right into sparring after a few classes, we can get you sparring right away too.
If you would just like to learn self-defense to begin with and work your way towards sparring, we can prepare for that next step through positional drilling and positional sparring that will allow you time to develop your skills before moving on to intermediate and advanced sparring.
Positional sparring can be light or intense, depending on the objective for that sparring session. One advantage that standard sparring has in comparison to light sparring, is that it brings a certain level of truth to the situation. Can you really pull off that move you just learned in class yet, against an unwilling opponent?
Advanced Classes
If you decide that you would like to take your beginner martial arts to an intermediate level, then we would recommend to start sparring. In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, this is usually called “rolling.” If you want to get good at Jiu-Jitsu, you have to roll. In various kickboxing styles there are different terms used, but sparring is the general term for practicing a martial art while wearing protective gear like gloves and shin guards.
Drilling will help create muscle memory for techniques, but sparring will help you test this under pressure. So together with drilling, sparring will provide you with the kind of muscle memory that will create automatic reactions. Sparring provides you with scenarios that allow you to think about the best actions and reactions under pressure. It also gives you an opportunity to hone in your techniques against a resisting opponent. So you can get better at pulling off these techniques in real situations.
This process helps you create muscle memory from a combination of drilling and sparring. This will help you make better choices offensively and defensively, as well increase your upstanding of the techniques you are learning. The end result will give you something effective in both competition and self-defense applications in the real world. Through time and repetition, you can build automatic reactions for common situations.