After years of training athletes in Toronto and Vancouver, as well as training in various martial arts like kickboxing, tae kwon do, BJJ, and Krav Maga, and combining his professional fitness knowledge with a martial arts focus, in 2010, founder coach Ror Alexander set out to assist the exploding Asia MMA combat strength & conditioning meet up with their western counterparts. Along the way he worked with athletes from a number of martial arts background and organizations including Fairtex, Yokkao, and ONE Championship, working in Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Murray "Showtime" Sogen is a champion fighter is his own right, holding the title from Canada's MMA promotion West Coast MMA Productions. However, Murray decided that he wanted to focus on strength, conditioning and fitness, and became the head coach of Tactix MMA Gym in Vancouver. However he was then offered the very desirable position to work with the Fairtex Muay Thai & MMA team as head fitness coach, as well as head Fairtex's fitness division in the official Fairtex Training Center in Pattaya Thailand, where he has been ever since. Now Murray has literally built his own Jungle Gym from the ground up and is the head coach of it in Pattaya, Thailand.
Murray working with world famous muay thai champion and ONE Fighter Yodsanklai Fairtex.
Coach Andrea Conti is himself a long time BJJ athlete, kickboxer, and holds a Masters In Exercise from the University Of Florence Italy, and now living in Vancouver Canada.
Andrea is our FITE head Coach and an he brings all of his education, hands on experience, and knowledge with him to our fighters and athletes.
FITE PODCAST
Listen in to coach Ror Alexander, interviewing coach Murray Sogen on training and living in Thailand, modern conditioning and the pros and cons of traditional Muay Thai training.
