 Hello world, this is a little about who I am and my martial arts background. I'm Jason Mallory, born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Go Blue ! I started wrestling and tae kwon do when I was thirteen years old ( I'm 39 now ). My Freestyle wrestling coach was James Bryant who was a US Olympic A team member in 1980 ( the year the US boycotted the Games, that sucked ! ) and my Greco Roman wrestling coach was Ernie Gillum who won a silver medal at the World Championships in Greco. My first regular season wrestling varsity with Mr. Bryant I was 30-0.
In 1990 I won a silver medal at the US Olympic Sports Festival in Tae Kwon Do. I was only a brown belt but threw on a black belt and competed in the black belt division at the US National Championships so that I would have a chance to qualify for the national team. I later received my black belt in TKD from my coach, two-time Olympian and former US head coach, Han Won Lee.
After I moved to L.A. I became friends with this kid Aaron Briley who personally trained with Rickson Gracie for 3 years back in the mid 90's. Aaron became a Pan Am champion while training with Jean Jacques Machado. Aaron got me into BJJ and he shared many jiu jitsu principles with me.
I started training BJJ with Maricio Acosta who is a Rickson Gracie black belt. I received my blue belt from Renato Magno of Machado Street Sports Jiu Jitsu and Eddie Bravo gave me my purple belt after a year of training at 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu.
In May of '08 I competed for possibly the last time in the Hungarian Submission Wrestling Championships. In the second round fight I beat a two-time Hungarian MMA champion whose base was BJJ. I blew my knee out in the third fight on the shot in and that is how the cookie crumbles, or is it the knee ?
I just had the first of two surgeries on my left knee. The other knee got torn out sparring with Eddie. Defend the lockdown before passing the guard !!! While I lived in LA I boxed a few months at Freddie Roach's Wild Card Gym in Hollywood. I also did some LeMaCo knife fighting with Felix Velencia formerly of Cold Steel who was an undefeated Dog Brothers full contact stick fighting champion at the time.
I live in Europe now with my wife Ivette and I trained for a year with the City of Kaposvar Judo Team. I now teach No-Gi Grappling at the newly opened Nukrob Gym with amateur European Thai Box Champion Gabor Hortobagyi and Pro MMA fighter Patrik Bogyo who was the Hungarian MMA champion for his weight class.
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