Balance Mixed Martial Arts

Balance Mixed Martial Arts At Balance we specialise in adults and children's Mixed Martial Arts classes. We offer small group a

16/09/2026

🥊 Great Junior MMA session at Balance MMA!

Tonight we worked on counter striking, double-leg spin takedowns, and a solid arm-in guillotine defence on the ground.

Checkout the video to see the juniors putting the techniques into action during sparring! 👊🔥

Trial sessions are just £5.

Our junior membership schemes are designed to get the kids competent in grappling, which makes up around 70% of MMA, before bringing everything together in our MMA classes.

Building skills, confidence and ability step by step. 🥋🥊

Balance your life with training.

13/09/2026

Check out the way we set up and escape two very popular chokes in MMA — the D’Arce and Anaconda choke.

A couple of key points to remember:

🥋 D’Arce: the wrist bone cranks into the neck, creating the pressure for the choke.

🥋 Anaconda: the wrist bone ends up underneath the armpit, with the choke coming from the chest compressing the neck against their own shoulder.

Understanding where the pressure actually comes from makes both the setup and the escape much easier to understand.

Train smart. Understand the details. 🥊🤼‍♂️

Life is balance.

12/09/2026

🥊 Friday Striking at Balance MMA

Great energy in the room for Friday’s striking session! 🔥

We warmed up with a few light rounds before working on mistiming.

By mistiming, we mean adding a slight pause to the first attack as it’s thrown. This can disrupt your opponent’s defensive timing and create openings for the rest of your combination.

We then added this into striking combinations on the pads, drilling the sequences before putting them into 90-second rounds and working each combination over and over again.

Next week we’ll take it into partner drills, using the mistiming to create openings for a straight shot or hook. 👊

We finished with 4 x 3-minute rounds of sparring, followed by some body work and practising breathing at the correct time — an important part of staying relaxed and effective when the pressure is on.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or already have experience, come and sharpen your striking with us.

Trial sessions just £5.

🥊 Balance your life with striking.

Life is balance.

11/09/2026

Now and again, you get a student who gives back as much as you put into them.

Evan joined us at the start of 2023, aged just 14. He had already done some kickboxing, but had never trained grappling or MMA.

It didn’t take long for him to become a regular at class. He thrived in the sessions, started competing in interclubs (which his mum didn’t particularly enjoy watching 😂), entered grappling competitions and received his blue belt at just 16.

Evan also started helping with our Minis classes, showing patience and a real passion for passing his knowledge on to others.

Whenever there was anything gym-related going on, Evan was always there to support — whether that was cornering fighters from the gym or helping us when we started setting up the new gym.

Over the years, Evan — or “The Hobbit”, as he is fondly known — has become a very skilled martial artist. But more importantly, I feel the discipline of martial arts has helped him develop in all aspects of life, making him humble, confident and, most of all, loyal.

Last night was Evan’s final session with us for now, as he leaves to join the Paratroopers and follow his next path in life.

He will always be welcome back at Balance, and I already know he’ll be training with us over Christmas and whenever he’s home visiting his parents.

It’s hard not to become really attached to people when you spend so much time with them and get so much back from them over the years. But it’s also one of the best parts of coaching — seeing MMA help create another fine young man who I know will go on to do amazing things in everything he puts his mind to.

Farewell Evan “The Hobbit” Stone. 🥋❤️

Keep safe, mate, and we look forward to seeing you back on the mats whenever you’re home. 👊

Life is balance.

4 weeks out doing his weekly 5k, no days off just cycling the training, hard work, discipline and passion.Proud of the e...
06/09/2026

4 weeks out doing his weekly 5k, no days off just cycling the training, hard work, discipline and passion.

Proud of the effort his put in, close to fight weight and can feel how good he’s getting in training.

06/09/2026

Can’t train through the week? We’ve got you! 👊

Saturdays we do MMA at 9am and Sundays it’s BJJ at 10am — both are amazing sessions and not to be missed! 🔥

Check out this morning’s Sunday session. Sunday can be a great day to catch up with your training, get moving and start the week feeling great. 💪

Balance your weekends with training.

Life is Balance. ⚖️

04/09/2026

🥊 Interested in MMA?

At Balance MMA, we have an MMA programme for juniors and adults, from complete beginners through to advanced fighters.

As MMA is heavily focused on grappling, we encourage new students to start with our grappling classes first. Once we feel you’re progressing and have built a solid foundation, we introduce the striking classes, before progressing into our MMA sessions where we bring everything together. 🥋🥊

Check out this video from one of our Junior MMA sessions, featuring striking sparring at the start followed by some MMA sparring.

Trial sessions are just £5. After that, we have a membership programme based on how many sessions you can attend each week.

📩 Inbox us to book your trial.

Balance your life with MMA.

29/08/2026

Closing the distance and having the ability to go from effective strikes straight into takedowns is so important for MMA.

In this sequence, we throw a stiff probing jab before switching to southpaw and throwing a looping overhand right at elbow height, making sure our foot is on the outside of our opponent’s lead foot.

From there we level change, dropping our opponent back before coming up with our head on the inside and attacking the single leg.

The finish is a sit-out to the back, controlling the back before rotating over our right heel and spinning through to a tight side control.

Try this sequence out — it works for us! 🥊🤼‍♂️

Want to give it a go? Trial sessions are just £5. Send us a message to get booked in. After that, we have a membership scheme available.

27/08/2026

🥋 Jiu-Jitsu at Balance MMA

Gi Jiu-Jitsu sessions every week:

🥋 Monday – 8:30am
🥋 Wednesday – 8:30am
🥋 Tuesday – 6pm
🥋 Thursday – 6pm
🥋 Sunday – 10am

We also run No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu:
🔥 Monday – 5:30pm
🔥 Wednesday – 6pm

Plenty of sessions to develop your skills, sharpen your technique and make great progress each week.

Trial sessions just £5 — after that, we have a flexible membership scheme available.

📩 Inbox us to get on board!

26/08/2026

Wednesday Junior MMA 🥊

Great session with the junior team tonight!

We worked on different ways to land the straight back kick, blocking drills, the leg lift double leg, and a hip-heist reversal.

Once we’d drilled the techniques, the team put it all into practice with 5–6 rounds of MMA. 🔥

Brilliant effort from everyone — great energy and hard work all round! 👊

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