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Chief Instructor - Carlos Cummings

Carlos's martial arts journey started in 1992 at the age of sixteen in Judo under Sensi Mani Javaheri. For the next three years Carlos trained and competed in many tournaments. He received his black belt in Judo in 1995 under Sensi Mani Javaheri when he was 19 years old.

For the next Five years Sensei Mani taught Carlos many martial arts styles such as:

Judo
Jiu Jitsu
Submission Wrestling

In 2001 Carlos and his wife started traveling. The first place his travels took him was to Ocala fl, where he trained with Master Marc Sanchez in Judo and in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Carlos also traveled to Birmingham, AL where he was first introduced to Sambo grappling and studied with Sambo coach Chris Mayger and Ian Melacheck While in Germany. Carlos took the transition into Sambo very well with his judo background. While traveling Carlos would find himself home for short spells and would continue his training with Sensei Mani and finally obtain a 2nd Dan black belt in 2006

Since Carlos has been back in Florida he has opened his own school and worked in conjunction with a few of the local martial arts schools in the Panama City area since April of 2005. Carlos's school is currently with Master Richard Higgins at the American Martial Arts Academy located in Panama City Beach, FL.

Carlos also trains a small group of fighters who have an interest in competition. His fighters fight under the team name "Zombie Squad". Carlos still finds himself in the competition ring from time to time as well. He is also a TRX Certified Trainer . To learn more about TRX goto fitnessanywhere.com. Carlos is also an Army Combative Instructor.

Carlos's fight record currently stands as:

Grappling Record:
     • 30 Submission grappling tournaments
     • 2001- Birmingham judo champion heavyweight
     • 2007 February Aaron Hensley second place runner-up

Carlos also does work in hand-to-hand combative training for the military police and special force units. He has worked for TACP Ft. Bragg, Pope Air Force Bse and Tyndall Air Force Base. Also checkout Youtube for interviews from these bases at Youtube.com/cummingssambo.

• Article from Tyndall Air Force Bases' newspaper the Gulf Defender "Barred".
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