Learn a life saving martial art and have great workout and make great friends. Learn how to defend yourself and your loved ones, even if an assailant is bigger and stronger than you. Our main focus at our school is self defense training and we offer Gi and MMA No Gi classes. All our student work with each other in a family friendly professional environment.  Our staff works hard to make our school a big supportive family and a second home to many students. We work with each other, not against each and work hard to leave the egos at and negativity at the front door.  Come for the Jiu-Jitsu, stay for the camaraderie and make life long friends. We welcome beginners with open arms! 

 

At the heart of everything that we do is our passion for teaching correct  Rocian Gracie methods and our commitment to our students. We believe in not just teaching self defense, we also believe in culturing all student  and teaching martial arts and family values. We also want our younger student to strive for academic excellence and learn to handle bullies and develop leadership skills.  Our academy is operated by three generation of family members who are current or retired competitors and full contact fighters who are also world certified high level masters  and instructor. We work hard to create a comfortable, safe environment for all family members.  

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All our staff members must pass a full background checks to qualify to coach or teach and we are "Safe Sport Certified" to teach children. Our unique programs and training classes are second to none and we strive to give the best to all our members.  Professor Spillmann has decades of experience teaching Brazilian JiuJitsu methods and many other martial art styles as taught to him by his Grandmasters. We offer classes in Brazilian JiuJitsu and MMA Cardio for adults and children. Most our members are focused on learning martial arts as a hobby or to help over come life's obstacles and build confidence, fitness while learning practical self defense.

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"Developing the Champions of Today and The Leaders of Tomorrow"  

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Our school has been ranked as one of the top Martial Arts School time and time again. Our school was designed for our students and has over 4500-sqft of floor space, training mats, specialized equipment,  boxing equipment, changing rooms and a kids TV area. We also believe in a clean and comfortable training areas and clean school. GMA teaches several martial arts styles like Brazilian JiuJitsu, Adult, Child & Family TaeKwondo, Adult Hapkido, Adult Wing Chun and Tai Chi. We offer several styles all taught by different instructors to offer more to our students.  We also offer seminar's, summer programs, after school pick-up and kids weekly spring, fall and summer camps.

 

We are located in the GMA building located close to the 386-hwy and the 109-hwy located at 509 Garnet Ct Gallatin.  Our skilled teachers are here to assist students achieve, learn self defense skills and hone defensive fighting skills. If you ready to reach your potential then  register online for a Free Trial Class.

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GMA offers Adult Brazilian JiuJitsu, Kids Brazilian JiuJitsu, Adults TaeKwonDo, Kids TaeKwonDo, Sport TaeKwonDo, Cardio MMA ( Kickboxing / Muay Thai Concepts) and Wing Chun and other martial arts classes.  We are located in Gallatin Tennessee and closes to Hendersonville, Castalian Springs, Hartsville, Lafayette, Nashville, Madison, Lebanon and Bethpage. We are located in the GMA Elite Training Center  Building: 509 Garnet Ct - Ste 300 Gallatin TN 37066​

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Welcome to GMA with over 50 Years Experience
 

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