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WELCOME TO XTREME NINJA!

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At XTREME NINJA We are committed to serving our students by promoting a positive mental attitude and the highest level of physical fitness through the study of Karate, Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Our mission is to build our students into Black Belt Champions; to empower our students to be more successful in life through the practice of their martial arts, and to always influence them in a positive manner.

To accomplish this, we must instill the Champion’s Attitude; to set goals for self improvement, and to develop the non-quitting spirit that is necessary to overcome obstacles and to be more successful.

Next, we hope to educate and influence a student’s overall Behavior, so that they will develop habits and lifestyle that will lead toward long term success; to learn and practice self-discipline in everything we do.

We further commit to provide the best training skills, drills and techniques available for our students to succeed both in their martial arts and in their personal lives.

We dedicate ourselves to: Providing the highest quality martial arts training available; maintaining a clean and safe family atmosphere; Preserving tradition while welcoming innovation; Graciously living and teaching the principles of the martial arts; Facilitating a positive environment where students of all ages can achieve fulfilling and productive lives through Karate, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts, and Strength & Conditiong Training.

If you have been thinking about taking Martial Arts classes, we encourage you to take the leap into action. You will shortly begin to see and feel the rewards of increased fitness, confidence and ability to focus. We hope that Xtremeninja Mixed Martial Arts will be the school you choose to help you achieve these goals.

We service students from the following areas: Medford, Malden, Melrose, Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington, Winchester, and Charlestown.
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Strength & Conditioning

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Strength & Conditioning Training is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build the strength, anaerobic endurance and size of skeletal muscles. There are many different methods of strength training, the most common being the use of gravity or elastic/hydraulic forces to oppose muscle contraction. See the resistance training article for information about elastic/hydraulic training, but note that the terms “strength training” and “resistance training” are often used interchangeably.

When properly performed, strength training can provide significant functional benefits and improvement in overall health and well-being, including increased bone, muscle, tendon and ligament strength and toughness, improved joint function, reduced potential for injury, increased bone density, a temporary increase in metabolism, improved cardiac function, and elevated HDL (good) cholesterol. Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental increases of weight, elastic tension or other resistance, and uses a variety of exercises and types of equipment to target specific muscle groups. Strength training is primarily an anaerobic activity, although some proponents have adapted it to provide the benefits of aerobic exercise through circuit training.

Strength training differs from bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, and strongman, which are sports rather than forms of exercise, although training for them is inherently interconnected with strength training, as it is for shotput, discus, and Highland games. Many other sports use strength training as part of their training regimen, notably football, lacrosse, basketball, hockey and track and field.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions. The rules allow the use of striking and grappling techniques, both while standing and on the ground. Such competitions allow martial artists of different backgrounds to compete.

The roots of mixed martial arts can be traced back to various mixed style contests that took place throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s. Modern MMA competition emerged in 1993 with the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championships, although professional MMA events had been held in Japan by Shooto starting back in 1989. Originally organized with the intention of finding the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat situations, competitors were pitted against one another with minimal rules for safety. Later promoters adopted many additional rules aimed at increasing safety for competitors and to promote mainstream acceptance of the sport.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art and combat sport and a form of self-defense that focuses on grappling, especially ground fighting. It was derived from the Japanese martial art of Kodokan Judo in the early 20th century, which was itself then, a recently-developed system (founded in 1882), based on multiple schools (or Ryu) of Japanese jujutsu.

It promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend himself against a bigger, stronger assailant using leverage and proper technique; most notably, by applying joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat the other person. Jiu Jitsu can be trained for sport grappling tournaments (gi and no-gi) and mixed martial arts (MMA) competition or self-defense. Sparring (commonly referred to as ‘rolling’) and live drilling play a major role in training, and a premium is placed on performance, especially in competition.

Muay Thai

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Muay Thai is a beautiful “Explosive Art & Science of an 8 limb practice” and is much more than just a Martial Art. Muay Thai is a way of life, a system that instills confidence, respect and discipline preparing and developing you physically, mentally and spiritually for any challenge in life. Muay Thai is often referred to as the “King of Martial Arts” and provides the most effective form of self defence. With just a few weeks proper training you will be astonished at what you can achieve. Our Nak Muay are champions in every walk of life.

The highly explosive and fully effective arsenal of techniques employed in Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) include devastating kicks, punches, elbows, knees and even clinch work making Muay Thai a great workout for your entire body and mind. Special care is taken to teach our students proper technique and form to eliminate injury during training.

Once native to Thailand, where Muay Thai remains its national sport and boasts more than 65,000 professional Muay Thai fighters, Known as “Nak Muay”. Muay Thai practicioners have acheived world wide recognisition of thier art and extremely popular spectator sport which is now taught in almost every country.

Muay Thai originated in Thailand out of a need for survival on the battlefield and although originally developed for hand to hand combat, unarmed soldiers often had to rely on their knowledge and skills in Muay Thai to deliver devastating Elbows, Knees and kicks against those branding swords and pikes.

This artistic ancient art of Muay Thai is called “Muay Boran” which was once banned for high brutality rates, this is now only taught to more advanced students who can practice the execution of these techniques in a controlled and safe method.

Tae Kwon Do

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Tae Kwon Do is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means “to strike or break with foot”; kwon means “to strike or break with fist”; and do means “way,” “method,” or “art.” Thus, taekwondo may be loosely translated as “the way of the foot and fist” or “the way of kicking and punching.”

Taekwondo is the world’s most popular martial art in terms of the number of practitioners.Its popularity has resulted in the varied development of the martial art into several domains: as with many other arts, it combines combat techniques, self-defense, sport, exercise, meditation and philosophy. Taekwondo is also used by the South Korean military as part of its training. Gyeorugi, a type of sparring, has been an Olympic event since 2000.

American Karate

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American Karate is a generic term usually referring to a system based on one of the traditional Asian karate styles but with a more eclectic (whatever works) approach typical of a Western instructor. So-called American karate has been both vilified and exalted depending on the views of the observer.

Critics suggest it is a watered-down version of authentic styles popularized by Americans who never stayed with their original teachers long enough to truly understand the intricacies of the art. They went out on their own and claimed to practice an “American” approach to karate but in reality were only able to teach the most rudimentary techniques.

Supporters, on the other hand, claim that Asian instructors are bound by traditions that are both antiquated and impractical in the modern world. Americans, the argument goes, are open to discovering modern methods of training without misplaced loyalties to a certain nationalistic approach, such as the Japanese vs. Okinawan martial styles.