Y’all are in for a treat!!

Starting February 2019, Kris “Big Daddy” Perkins will be teaching an Advanced Fight Tactics class for Orange Belt students and above every Friday at 5:15pm.

Kris Perkins is a former Army First Sergeant and Drill Sergeant. He grew up in NE Oklahoma, where he got his start in wrestling. Later, when the Army began developing the Modern Army Combatives program, Kris became one of the plank holders of the program. Kris is the only Coach to win 3 Army Combatives championships. Kris has trained the US Special Forces, as well as their Canadian, Slovakian, Polish, Iraqi, and Afghan counterparts.

Kris was a Division 1 wrestler at Oklahoma, and he is a current High Performance USA Wrestling Coach. He has wrestled competitively since 1974 in several styles – Folkstyle, Greco-Roman, and Freestyle. He is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt, one of only 13 Army Combatives Black Belts, and is the former Training Director of Sheepdog Response.

Oh, and did I mention he’s coached several UFC fighters including Tim Kennedy and TUF 16 winner Colton Smith?

Yeah.

Now he’s going to train us.