Urban Warriors Academy

sunkanmi olaore

6 months ago

Always love my time here!

Berrin Celik

11 months ago

Very clean, energetic, inspiring, full of positive vibes and a happy place! It's not like the usual gyms where you are just somebody training on your own, in here you are important, you are part of the family, you are not alone and you get all the help you need to reach your goal!! Absolutely, highly, definitely recommended.

Máté V

11 months ago

A great oldschool martial arts gym, a rare find in today's world full of boxing-based HIIT clubs. It has now reopened after the lockdown (despite the description, which should be updated). UWA offers small classes with coaches who pay close attention to every student. I have taken Kes's MMA and thai box classes and Sebastian's no gi BJJ, both of them are great, friendly and knowledgable with extensive experience and competitive fighting career/background. For beginners - as some reviews point out - the first couple of classes might be really hard, but that's how you progress. Just keep coming back for more and in few weeks you'll make friends with your training partners - some are proper porfessional fighters - learn a lot and will feel at home. New classes added on a regular basis so it makes sense to enquire about the current schedule.

Jonathan Manders

2 years ago

Trialled boxing fundamentals, good technique focused class, not beginner friendly. Seemed to have a mix of beginners and advanced people, so my interpretation of fundamentals meaning a beginners class was wrong. The instructor didn't seem to care or ask about having a first timer, which I bet would put off anyone with anxiety about joining. I can imagine sometimes pros prefer to train pros rather than beginners. The class included warm up and cool down calisthenics circuits, shadow boxing (because beginners are pro shadow boxers), and sparring technique drills and one mini sparring session. I told my sparring partners it was my first time and they were cool to be considerate and help me out. It was intimidating but fun to get involved in a mini sparring session right away. The mini sparring had us both hold our lead foot within close proximity of each other, we obviously didn't go full force but my poor blocking technique led to a nice self inflicted cut. Looking at the timetable it was meant to be Daniel leading the class, but from the photos it didn't seem like he was. Lacked stretches for cool down or warm up but you can do that yourself. Really hard to find the gym with google maps, make sure you give it sometime when you first go. In summary, I'm glad I left with only a self inflicted cut on my elbow because I don't know how to block my body properly despite a wonderful 20 second personal intro on how to. No harm in trying it out if your in shape and ideally known how to throw a punch and block, otherwise I'd bet you'd risk injury. I'd consider going again in the future after I've become better at the basics. No idea if all the classes are like my experience but other reviews seemed to point out the poor beginners support.

Jacob Gray

7 years ago

This is the first fight gym I have ever attended and I love it! I have always wanted to learn some kind of practical street fighting/self defence and the Krav Maga and the Dirty Boxing classes offer just that. The step by step, logical approach to the classes really teaches techniques that work and that become second nature. I always assumed I would be able to defend myself if it came to it but I now walk around feeling certain that should someone try to hit me I would be able to not only avoid the hit but would damage my attacker in the process. If someone pulled a knife on me it wouldn't turn out well for them! Good people. Great instructors. Lots of fun!