Reviews of Academy of Combat Mixed Martial Arts

Very knowledgeable instructors and great facilities. Everything you need to learn striking grappling and develop strength and conditioning.

Very well equipped, full-time, school with very knowledgeable instructors.

This school was the firat school of MMA in New Zealand and has a 3rd degree BJJ Black Belt as the instructor, who has produced numerous fighters and champions in MMA, BJJ and Muay Thai

Arrived feeling very enthusiastic, the facilities are great and the people are nice but my instructor seemed pretty unenthusiastic. There wasn't a lot of technique instruction either - just a whole lot of cardio exercises and the guy just kind of sat there while the class shadow-boxed in front of a mirror. When I got the message in the mail saying I was up for a test to get my next belt I burst out laughing! I hadn't learned a thing!

The reception staff were also quite strange - they seemed nice but whenever I turned my back I could hear them giggling. They often asked me for more money and gave vague explanations as to why. One example, I was asked for twenty dollars and when I told them my fees were being paid regularly (I'd been checking) the girl shrugged, giggled, and said "oh it's just a monthly fee we get our members to pay." I figured it was in my contract and I'd just forgotten about it but when I came home and thumbed through the paperwork I couldn't find anything about a monthly twenty dollar fee in addition to the join-up fee and weekly payments.

This last part is just me being petty but for a place that charges so much I would expect a uniform that was a bit better quality and a club card that was actually a card - not simply a laminated piece of paper.

I have definitely attended better places since.