Here at Team Victory, our instructors work HARD to bring you the best, most up-to-date training methodologies and curriculum available. We travel all over the United States to train with the leaders in grappling and mixed martial arts. We don't just get "grip and grin" photos with MMA/BJJ stars we run into on the street or at a show, we invest the time and money to get on the mat with them. Once again, you will not find anyone in Morristown or the Lakeway area with our experience.

GRAPPLING INSTRUCTOR

Phil Hurst

Phil first became interested in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts in the mid-90's after watching Royce Gracie tear thru the competition in the first few Ultimate Fighting Championships. Back then places to train were scarce - if you wanted to train you had to be willing to travel. So he did. Knoxville. Maryville. New York City. Las Vegas. Southern California. It was tough, and at first progress was slow.

But it paid off.

Phil is now a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under World Champion Helio "Soneca" Moriera. While karate black belts are literally a dime a dozen, there are VERY FEW BJJ Brown Belts around, and even fewer that actually have the skill to impart their knowledge to others.  Phil is well-known in the grappling community for the quality of his students and their performance in competition.

STRIKING INSTRUCTOR

Bill Whitworth

While a relative newcomer to mixed martial arts training, Bill is no stranger to the grappling or striking arts. Bill wrestled (18 years and 30 pounds ago) in high school, which gave him his first taste of what its like to face someone in one-on-one combat sports.

Bill is a Blue Belt in BJJ under Phil Hurst and a 4th Degree Black Belt in karate. Bill has been training intensively in NHB style boxing under Mark Hatmaker for nearly 4 years.

Bill has also cross-trained extensively in kickboxing and Muay-Thai through his involvement in the Ultimate Black Belt test, which has given him the opportunity to train with such old-school greats as Cecil Peoples, Troy Dorsey and many more boxing/kickboxing legends.