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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, over 27 years ago.

My Collegiate Wrestling coach was James Bryant who was a US Olympic team member in 1980 ( the year the US boycotted the Games ) and my Greco Roman Wrestling coach was the legendary 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 competed in the black belt division at the US National Championships, won a bronze medal and was looking forward to a chance to qualify for the national team. I 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 or 4 years back in the mid 90's. Aaron became a Pan Am champion while training with Jean Jacques Machado. He got me into BJJ and shared many Jiu Jitsu principles.

I started training BJJ with Maricio Acosta who is a Rickson Gracie black belt. In 2001 I shared 1st place at the Grappling Games in Las Vegas with a teammate while I trained with Rey Diogo. I received my blue belt from Pan Am Champion Renato Magno of Street Sports Jiu Jitsu and two years ago Eddie Bravo gave me my purple belt after a year training at 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu HQ.

In May of '08 I competed in the Hungarian Submission Wrestling Championships hosted by Gracie Barra even though I needed surgery on both knees going into the competition. In the second round fight I beat a two-time Hungarian MMA champion whose base was BJJ. I blew my left knee out completely in the third fight on the shot in and that is how the cookie crumbles.

I had the second of two surgeries on my left knee which was a knee reconstruction early in '09. I tore my right knee out sparring at 10th Planet Hollywood and I had the first of two surgeries in Aug '09 to repair the damage with reconstructive knee surgery on the 20th of October 2009. After rehab I hope to be 100% by Jan. 2011 !

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 Valencia formerly of Cold Steel who was an undefeated full contact stick fighting champion at the time.

I live in Europe now with my wife Ivette. While here in Hungary I trained
for a year with the City of Kaposvar Judo Team and then taught
No-Gi Grappling from Sept. '08 thru Sept. '09 at the Nukrob Gym with amateur European Thai Box Champion Gabor Hortobagyi and Pro MMA fighter Patrik Bogyo who was the amateur Hungarian MMA champion for his weight class.

This is old video of me ( blue w/ back to camera at start ) fighting against Clay Barber who was the US Team member at the time and had won a silver medal at the World Championships that year. The first two rounds are me vs Clay which ended as a draw 3-3. This was around '94-95 and the UFC had just been born.

Don't laugh at my Storm Trooper suit. This was the closest thing to full contact that I could do where I grew up back then. Sorry for the poor quality but this is the only footage that I have of me competing whether TKD or grappling.

Here's video of my friend Aaron Briley competing at the Copa Pacifica. Watch for the Flying Triangle against the seated guard !

Very cool seminar put on by Felix Valencia including a knife fight sparring session at the end.

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