No-Gi Grappling & BJJ
Position before submission, control before chaos. Private and small-group coaching for intermediate athletes ready to refine their game, not just roll.
PRIVATE BJJ · BOXING · STRENGTH & CONDITIONING — SOLIHULL
Composure
Composure
under pressure.
Private coaching for the long game, not the next eight weeks. Grappling, boxing and strength programming, built for the moments that actually test you.
Disciplines
Boxing & MMA
Footwork, distance and timing, taught properly. Boxing fundamentals for fitness and sparring readiness, extended into MMA striking, shootboxing and wall wrestling for those training toward more.
Strength & Conditioning
Programming built around your training, not against it. Strength, conditioning and movement work that supports performance on the mat and off it.
Private family and youth coaching is also available by arrangement — Enhanced DBS-checked, safeguarding trained and fully insured for young athletes. Enquire directly.
Phobos Performance — Coaching in Practice
THE COACH
Coached personally, start to finish.
Every session at Phobos Performance is led directly by me, Ash — no rotating instructors, no handoff to junior coaches. A competition and coaching background spanning grappling, boxing and endurance sport underpins a programme built for serious, long-term athletes.
- Brown BeltIBJJF Brown Belt, under 3× ADCC World Champion & Hall of Famer Braulio Estima
- 2022Allstars National No-Gi Champion
- 2018British Open Champion (Gi)
- LicensedUKBJJA Licensed Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Coach
- Head CoachHead Coach — CSC Submission Grappling
- AccreditedBritish Martial Arts & Boxing Association — Accredited MMA Instructor
- EnduranceMultiple Ironman 70.3, Olympic Triathlon & Marathon finisher
- S&CExtensive strength & conditioning coaching experience
- SafeguardingEnhanced DBS Checked & Safeguarding Trained — insured to coach young athletes and vulnerable adults
No-Gi — 2022
Gi — 2018
Experience
MMA
BJJ
Ten years on the mats, in training and in competition. Nine submission finishes at national level, across gi and no-gi, coached under 3× ADCC World Champion Braulio Estima.
MMA
Trained alongside elite professional athletes at Team Renegade Birmingham, under head coach and professional fighter Tom Breese. Wall wrestling learned directly from UFC World Champion Leon Edwards. A regular sparring partner to professional and amateur fighters from Cage Warriors and Bellator, as part of an invite-only pro team programme.
Begin the conversation.
Tell me a little about your goals and training background. I'll come back to you to arrange a first session.
Coaching from Combat Sports Centre, Solihull
ΦΟΒΟΣ — fear, named for the son of Ares. ΑΤΑΡΑΞΙΑ — the Stoic state of perfect calm, undisturbed by fear or desire.
Phobos Performance exists in the space between the two: training that puts you face to face with what unsettles you, fatigue, pressure, an opponent's weight, until composure stops being a reaction and becomes where you live.