Happy New Year! We are open as usual from today with our normal timetable. It’s time to get back to training and start working on your 2021 goals.

Here is what you need to know before you come in.

2. Temperature checks, sanitizing stations and the 4 square metre rule continue to apply.
3. Students will check in their attendance for classes using the tablet.
4. Visitors will fill in the QR code.
5. Students who are training will not be required to wear a mask.
6. All spectators will be required to wear a mask.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone again. I am looking forward to what 2021 will bring. Let’s work together to help each other achieve our goals.

Coach Anthony Perosh

Here is the 5^th & final part of my journey of 25 years training & 20 years coaching.

Part 5 of 5: 2016 – 2020

In 2016 we changed our name to Team Perosh Mixed Martial Arts and in 2017 we moved to a 1000 square metre World Class Facility. All 450 students made the move and we have now grown to 600 members. Here are some highlights of what we have achieved the past 4 years.

• 4 Gradings every year (2 in 2020)
• Our MMA team have had 50 matches from 2016-2019 with a 70%-win rate
• Our BJJ team have made 17 Pan Pacific, 21 Australian & 21 State Champions.
• Our extended family have increased to 15 Team Perosh Affiliate academies.
• Every year we participated in community events, charity fundraisers and had our Christmas party

In 2018 I made my return to BJJ Gi competition. I won my weight and open at the Australian BJJ Championships and then went to the World Masters BJJ Championships and won a bronze in my weight and gold (my first World title) in the open.

Instead of writing 2020 off I made the most of it. I rewrote all policy and procedures at Team Perosh, improved my staff and students’ skills and I learnt new life skills for myself in 2020!

There are so many people to thank over the past 25 years.

• Thank you to Carlos Machado for being my BJJ coach, mentor and friend.
• Thank you to my MMA coaching team including my Greg Jackson, Mike Winklejohn, Brandon Gibson & Chad Smith from Jackson-Wink, Steve Rudic, Denis Roberts & Paul Dallow.
• Thank you to my staff (John, Oulah, Johnny & Ana) for helping me run everything smoothly
• Thank you to all of my students (both past & present) for giving me the motivation. We are family. Everything I do is for you!
• And thank you to my brother dad, mum, brother John, Step Kids Natasha & Damian and my wife Ana for their continue and unwavering support.

I hope you have enjoyed my journey. Thank you to everyone who liked, commented and shared my posts. I am looking forward to the next 25 years of training and coaching!

Coach Anthony Perosh

https://teamperoshmma.com.au/

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2020 is a big milestone year for me. It is 25 years since I started BJJ & Muay Thai Kickboxing training and 20 years since I started coaching. Here is the next part. Feel free to like, comment and share this post.

Part 3 of 5: 2000 – 2002

I wanted a career in martial arts. I started talking to coaches, academy owners, business people and started reading books about running a business. My favourite 2 books about running a business was “The E-Myth” and “How to run a small business for dummies”. You may laugh about that last book but it is actually a great all in one resource. I strongly recommend anyone wanting to run a small business to read the above two books.

I started teaching my first BJJ class in August 2000 at my first martial arts coach’s academy IMC in Kemps Creek run by Paul Zadro. I taught there every Friday until May 2002 when I opened up my full-time academy. In the first photo below two of the students Bren Foster and Dean Vella I presented BJJ Black Belts to and are still with me today!

In July 2001 John Simon moved to Melbourne and I took over teaching at the All-Souls Anglican church in Leichhardt. There were about 10 students when I took over. I built it up to about 50 students in May 2002. Not bad for a part time academy where we had to lay down and pull up the mats before and after every class. I remember the class after us was a “Clog dancing” class. Oh, they hated us. We were always late in finishing and packing up and after 2 hours of BJJ & Muay Thai we left them a nice musty sweat smell for them!

In May 2002 I opened up SPMA with Elvis Sinosic. I moved the Leichhardt and Kemps Creek locations to Concord and started running a full timetable 5 nights per week and 3 mornings per week. At the same time, I was still working a full-time job during the day and was a bouncer on the weekends. It was tough but I loved it!

Tomorrow is Part 4: 2003 – 2015.

Coach Anthony Perosh

https://teamperoshmma.com.au/

#mma #brazilianjiujitsu #muaythaikickboxing #wrestling #boxing #thegoalistoachievetheperformancerequiredtowin #trainhard #befirst #nochill #believeinyourself #teamwork #loyalty #family #respect #discipline

Team Perosh finished off the year with their annual Christmas party. It was held at the beautiful Concord Function Centre and we sold out the 150 maximum number allowed.

The night started with dinner, a video tribute for Coach Anthony, Trivia competition, Raffle and cutting of the cake.

Well done to the table that won the Trivia competition. They each won 1 month free training.

The video tribute was very unexpected and humbling and very emotional for me. This year marks 25 years training and 20 years of coaching for me. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the video and thank you to everyone who attended the party.

We raised $218.60 from the Raffle. Thank you to Knockout Nutrition for providing the prizes for our raffle. We donated the money raised to the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. If you would like to donate yourself to this great cause please click on this link.

https://donate.cerebralpalsy.org.au/campaign/donate/

Sujan Creations was there to take all the photos. We have posted 10 beautiful photos here and will post more shortly. Click here for all the photos.

Finally, thank you to Oulah, Johnny, Nobby, John and my wife Ana for organising the Christmas party. You all rock!

Coach Anthony Perosh

https://teamperoshmma.com.au/

#mma #brazilianjiujitsu #muaythaikickboxing #wrestling #boxing #thegoalistoachievetheperformancerequiredtowin #trainhard #befirst #nochill #believeinyourself #teamwork #loyalty #family #respect #discipline