Description
American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) is a mixed martial arts gym in San Jose,
California, founded in 1985 by Javier Mendez. One of the pioneering MMA schools
in the United States, it has trained prominent fighters including Daniel
Cormier, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Cain Velasquez, Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck. Dave
Camarillo ran its grappling program from September 2003, where he developed
Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu, and Leandro Vieira has been the academy's Brazilian
jiu-jitsu head coach.
Also known as
AKA · AKA Gym
Locations (1)
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location_onSan Jose
7012 Realm Drive, San Jose, California, United States
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Instructors (2)
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person
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Trained here (3)
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Cain Velasquez
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Wikipedia and multiple MMA outlets report Velasquez earned a brown belt in
Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu under Dave Camarillo while training at AKA; single secondary
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“Velasquez is a brown belt in Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu under Dave Camarillo”
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Multiple independent MMA outlets report Leandro Vieira of Checkmat awarded
Velasquez his BJJ black belt in October 2013; corroborated by Wikipedia
“a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Leandro Vieira”
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Jon Fitch
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Multiple sources report Fitch received his black belt in Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu
under Dave Camarillo while at AKA; corroborated by Wikipedia and BJJ Heroes
“Dave Camarillo became a mainstream name as a coach after many of his students
became big stars in the world of mixed martial arts (MMA), names such as Jon
Fitch, Josh Koscheck, Mike Swick, and Cain Velazquez.”
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Josh Koscheck
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Multiple sources report Koscheck earned a black belt in Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu
under Dave Camarillo while at AKA; corroborated by Wikipedia and BJJ Heroes
“Dave Camarillo became a mainstream name as a coach after many of his students
became big stars in the world of mixed martial arts (MMA), names such as Jon
Fitch, Josh Koscheck, Mike Swick, and Cain Velazquez.”
Tags
mma · academy · san-jose · usa
Sources
“In September 2003 Dave took over the grappling program at the American
Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California.”
Identifiers
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). American Kickboxing Academy. In Martialis:
Martial Arts Lineage Database.
https://martial.is/entity/01KZQ7BS7KJ444KWAH72XGN2NT - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed
ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01KZQ7BS7KJ444KWAH72XGN2NT, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {American Kickboxing Academy}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts
Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01KZQ7BS7KJ444KWAH72XGN2NT}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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