I have been training at Camp Undefeated for the last 4 months and can not say enough good things about the gym and the people who run it. Having never trained martial arts before, I can not compare and contrast to other facilities, however I can give you the perspective of someone who has grown up in and around gym’s for the better part of the last 20 years. Facility wise its perfect for its purpose. They offer a wide variety of schedules to suit most everyone. Early AM classes are seldom crowded giving you ample time to work with the instructor. (Kru for me now that I am in the know) Moreover its clean, well laid out and completely free of pretense!
As a new student, to a completely foreign sport, I have been challenged both physically and mentally with just enough a$$ kicking to make me know I am working, but not too much so that I get frustrated . This brings me to the best part about CU, the staff. Aaron is quite possibly one of the best trainers I have ever worked with. As I said earlier I have been in and out of gyms for 20 years, having paid my way through college as a personal trainer. For most people in the game its simply a business where you bang out one session after another. With the gang at CU its really a passion. The most obvious thing about Aaron is not the fact that he can whoop your butt 6 ways from Sunday, but rather his genuine love for Muay Thai. He teaches the way all things should be taught, from the heart. He also possesses a skill that many trainers, myself included at times, lacks. That is the ability to know how hard to drive a person on a particular day. For those of us who have trained for a long time you know there are day’s when you need someone to come down on you, because you are dogging it. And then there are days when you just don’t have any fuel in the tank but are giving it your all. Walking that line is a fine art and for a young guy he has got it down.
So without turning this in to a commercial for Camp Undefeated let me just say it’s a great place to train. The people are spot on and Aaron is a winner…period! As far as them being closed let me say I know for certain that they are NOT out of business. I was there the day the moving company came to take the stuff over to the new facility. It seems the timing of the move got skewed as a result of another space falling through. Long story short they are building out the new space and should be open in a couple of weeks.
Thought to mention one last thing. I don’t ever post ANYWHERE however I feel such a strong connection with CU that I had to write something. Hopefully that should tell you something.