Reviews of Mamute Martial Arts Academy - Oshawa, ON (Gym)

Adrian Pescador

This gym is amazing, Professor Igor is great with the kids. My son has gained self confidence and skills in the short time he has been attending the BJJ classes. Highly recommend this gym, you won’t find a better teacher anywhere!!!

Muhammed Waleed Baig

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Faisal Baig

My kid love it and the teacher here he is amazing

Wes Jones

A great place to train! Excellent professor and very encouraging peers. Would recommend to anyone with a passion for MMA.

Ria Hutch

Mamute MAA is an outstanding gym, the people there are some of the kindest I’ve ever met in the bjj community, everyone is so respectful, supportive and welcoming. Professor Igor is a great coach with a lot of patience; every time I have the opportunity to learn from him he has been thorough and clear with his instructions and is more than willing to help make sure you’re learning the correct technique. They are truly just a great group to train with and the open mats on Sunday are always a good time.

Tim Gane

My home away from home, make a point of visiting and training with Prof. Mamute and his team as much as possible! Highly recommend.

JC C (Supetfly)

Very nice place were extremely kind and courteous to me the cost was $20 for a walk-in so about $80 a month or you can do two classes a week which is just under $100 a month I'm a single parent so it's very nice to be able to have options for a reasonable price

Vasily Gurin

Absolutely love this place!

Wagner Danda da Silva

Great classes, always learning new things. Professor Igor pushes us just the right amount, amazing workouts while learning a lot about BJJ. Great community and very friendly.

Chris Mulford

Can't say enough about the difference Brazilian Jiu-jitsu has made in our daughters life since she started over 2 years ago. Professor Igor and his wife Katrina have built an environment which teaches young children about self defense, discipline and respect! If you are going to have your child do a Martial Art then Mamute Martial Arts Academy is the only place to go!

Imane Tazi _Imanarts Design

Wonderful gym class! and wonderful coaches! for kids, adults and also for women only class

bob dole

I have been going to this gym for the Muay Thai lessons for some time now, and I have to say that there’s a lot of negatives and only a few positives I’ll start with the positives. The instructor is everything when it comes to learning the martial art. The man who owns the gym, I believe his name is Eagor (not sure if I’m spelling that correctly) is an amazing instructor. His pre-training workouts, the way he explains the striking and the way he has us train the striking is phenomenal. At no point do I feel extremely burnt out or confused. Rather, I feel like I’m actually learning the techniques, am able to put power behind them and do not feel extremely exhausted to the point where I can’t continue any further. He has us do a few simple strikes, and this works out very well because he’s able to help us understand the fundamentals instead of throwing a bunch of long combos our way which only confuses us. If Eagor was the only instructor, I would rate this gym 5/5. However, there is his younger sister, Julie, who is the instructor most of the time, and I have to give her a ⅖ stars. I’m not sure if she has a passion for instructing or if it’s nepotism at work that’s the reason she has her job, but she is not a good instructor at all. She burns you out too quickly during the pre-training workouts. Instead of how Eagor does it on a smooth sailing linear path that mixes in striking as well, all Julie does is burn you out with consistent pushups and other hard workouts that by the time comes to actually strike you’re too burnt out to do anything. She teaches striking horribly. She has us do complicated, long combos and most of the time we’re trying to remember what the combo is instead of actually executing the combo with power and precision. She also does not teach us how to properly strike. For example, she will say: “Throw a jab and a cross” without telling us how to exactly throw a jab and a cross properly. We should be learning very simple 1-3 strike combos and keep repeating them so we can properly execute them without having to think about them too much. Sometimes she has us do 6-10 strike combos which are completely ridiculous because we spend the entire time trying to remember what to do instead of actually doing it properly. All in all, she is not a good instructor, and I wish Eagor was at the gym full-time because I feel like I’m wasting my money with her. Also, at the end of class she will have sparring sessions for anyone who wishes to spar. However, she does not really supervise the sparring at all which is problematic because there are a lot of people that do not know how to spar and go overboard. I’ve seen people get hurt during sparring and Julie will not interject at all, nor will she offer advice to anyone sparring. Eagor needs to swallow his pride and fire his sister and hire a real instructor for when he’s not able to make it into the gym he owns.

John Silver

I have been in Mamute for sometime now and absolutley love it. The people here are so friendly and helpful. The coaches have so much passion for there Art.

Josh Melnychuk

Fantastic training and coaches Professor demands respect and accountability at all times. Keep up the good work..

Joey Catalano

Amazing love it already great instructors really encouraging and nice people cant wait to go back!

dianna mccluskey

My son started not too long ago, and now goes five times a week. Professor and all the coaches are great trainers,not only in jiu-jitsu but as well mentors for life.

Karl Thompson

I go to both locations and I absolutley love this place! It's a home away home.

mellisa Zuppone

The summer camp started today, my son had amazing day, a lot of fun and good games among children. The staff Julie’s were awesome and she’s very attentive to every single child. Thank you for all team Mamute!

Paul Michael

Absolute amazing group of people/coaches here at Mamute! I started as soon as they opened in Oshawa. I'd highly recommend them to anyone!

Karen McGarvie

Our daughter has been attending Muai Thai here for about 6 weeks and she absolutely loves it. The instructor is amazing with the students - the kids get a great workout and have fun at the same time. Highly recommend this place !