HOURS: Monday - Friday 11:AM - 9:PM Saturday 12:PM - 3:PM OPEN MAT SATURDAY BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU Mon 7-8:30pm Tue noon-1pm Thur noon-1pm & 7-8:30pm Fri 7-8:30pm THAI BOXING Mon 6-7pm Tue  6-7pm Wed 6-7pm Thur 6-7pm Fri 6-7pm (sparring day) SUBMISSION GRAPPLING Mon 7-8:30pm Tue 7-8pm Thur 7-8:30pm MMA Tue 8-9pm Wed 7-8:30pm YOGA Tue 11am-noon More Yoga Classes Coming Soon! COMPETITION TEAM Fri 7-9pm YOUTH PROGRAM (ages 6-12) Mon 5-5:45pm Wed 5-5:45pm Fri 5-5:45pm At West Coast Fight Club all classes are designed around providing our members with the best training environment and opportunities possible.  Our training philosophy is based on the concept of training functional martial arts in a scientific and athletic manner.  Helping our team members reach their fullest potential as individuals, athletes and as self-defense practitioners/fighters is the ultimate goal behind WCFC. Muay Thai: History of Muay Thai Muay Thai, translated into English as Thai Boxing, is the national sport of Thailand and is a martial art with origins in the ancient battlefield tactics of the Siamese (or Thai) army.  Muay Thai is the science of the body's eight limbs as weapons (feet, knees, elbows and fists). Also, the clinch, a stand-up neck wrestling strategy is important in using elbows and knees effectively. Thai boxing today is the most devastating form of stand-up fighting. Muay Thai training is also quite safe thanks to sophisticated pad training that has evolved to keep fighters healthy between fights.  Muay Thai has also proven very effective outside the ring and has been embraced enthusiastically by practitioners of a variety of self-defense, sporting, military and law enforcement activities. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ): The History of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu The introduction of Jiu-Jitsu to Brazil is largely credited to one Mitsuyo Maeda, who immigrated to Brazil in the 1920's and taught Jiu-Jitsu to brothers Carlos and Helio Gracie of Rio de Janeiro (more on the Gracies later). The large number of Japanese immigrants to South America (after all, the president of Peru is of Japanese ancestry) ensured that traditional Japanese martial arts, including Jiu-Jitsu, would find a home in Latin America. However, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu evolved into its own distinct style, incorporating techniques honed in the rough favelas (shantytowns) of the big cities. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu emphasizes ground fighting -- in fact, most Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu stylists want to take the fight to the ground, as opposed to the stand-up fighting of other fighting arts. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners believe that most fights end up on the ground, so you'd might as well learn the most effective ground fighting techniques available. These techniques include the aptly named guard and mount. While these two techniques seem very simple, they form the foundation for almost all other Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques