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Welcome to Magnus Training Academy & Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Your goals are our priority. We tailor our fitness and Jiu-Jitsu programs to help you or your child achieve a higher level of confidence, discipline, focus, fitness, and weight loss. Our specialty training classes are designed to enhance the capabilities of businesses and organizations regarding safety and security.
Cory Thompson
Cory Thompson, our esteemed Founder & Lead Instructor, brings a wealth of experience and expertise to our academy. With a passion for Jiu-Jitsu and a dedication to empowering individuals through self-defense, Cory leads by example, inspiring students to achieve their best.
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17 years of Jiu-Jitsu experience
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Marine Corps background
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22 years of Law Enforcement experience
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Rank of Lieutenant
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SWAT Assistant Commander for 12 years
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Certified as Top Crisis Negotiation Officer
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Gracie Officer Survival Tactics Instructor
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De-escalation Strategies Instructor
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One-on-one training options
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Cross-training with other gyms available
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Jiu-Jitsu is overseen by 5th-degree black belt Andre Mateus of Spartacus Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
The Community
Our unique community makes your time with us so special. Join a community of positive, fun, and caring individuals who are all working towards a similar goal.
Magnus Training Academy will provide services to businesses and individuals who want to improve their mental and physical health and improve their quality of life. The academy will also allow agencies to send their employees to our facility to advance their skills in safety, self-discipline, and officer survival skills.
Law Enforcement, military, and security personnel will be taught how to protect themselves better, control crisis situations, and maintain a positive work atmosphere. This training will aid in discipline, confidence, attention to detail, self-awareness, cognitive skills, and endurance. It will also push themselves, allowing them to break mental barriers.
Training Academy will offer law enforcement agencies, government agencies, schools, and other private/commercial businesses a group rate at the expense of the business. This will help provide individuals working for agencies and businesses with an extra advantage in keeping themselves healthier, cutting down on sick time, and increasing insurance rates. In addition to a healthier lifestyle, this will also help keep employees of those businesses participating in the group rate better skilled and safer.
Benefits of Jiu-Jitsu
"The deepest benefits of Jiu Jitsu come off the mat. It encourages a world-view based upon the idea of rational problem solving. Jiu Jitsu is all about solving problems that are rapidly changing under stress, and that gives you an ability to identify the crux of the problem in front of you, even in a stressful situation and adapt your body and tactics to overcome that problem and to continue overcoming it as the problem itself changes. It encourages you to use a very rational trial and error method, basically the same method that science uses to overcome these problems. So it gives you this sort of problem solving mindset, which I think applies throughout life itself."