CrossFit Certification

Kirian working on his Kipping Pull Up during Fran.

Coach Kirian has been a huge proponent of CrossFit protocols for many years now, so this past weekend he attended the CrossFit Instructors certification program in Santa Cruz just to make it official. The CrossFit team was phenomenal to work with. Excellent Course.

2007 Police & Fire Olympic Games

Congratulations to Art of War Fight Team members Scott Delbo and Jesse Gillespe for competing at the 2007 Police Olympics in Scottsdale, AZ last week October 6th - 14th. 

Scott won the Gold Medal and Jesse won the Silver Medal in their respective weight classes for Boxing. Excellent work from their stand up coaches Jivoni and Kirian. Great job guys you make the team proud!

Fairtex Fights- AOW Fight Team Wins Big!

The Art of War Fight Team brought a large team to the Fairtex Fights this past weekend and had a stellar showing, including Jesse (Thai Boxing), Maurico (Thai Boxing) and Scott (Boxing) who all scored TKO's in their fights.

Maurico Scores with a knee

The Main Event of the night was filmed for the new reality show for True TV, titled "Shamrock's School of Hard Knocks". The fight featured our own Team Miletich Fighter Mike Stratton vs. Alex "The Spider" out of Frank Shamrock's Submission Academy. Mike's dominated the fight from start to finish, scoring takedown after takedown and exhibited excellent Ground & Pound skills. Mike won a well deserved unanimous decision. Look for this show/fight to be televised on True TV in the Fall of 2008.

Mike sinks in the choke

Great job to all the fighters who competed during this event; Austin, Johnathan, Woody, Edgar, Jesse, Mauricio, Scott, Mike, Shawn, and Tom (even though his fight fell through :( ) and a big thank you to the coaches, Jivoni Jordan, Stan Kendricks, Kirian Fitzgibbons, Herb Cody and Eric Kolesar for making the Art of War Fight Team what it is.

Finally thanks to everyone at Fairtex for putting on the event and having the team on the card.

Elite XC/StrikeForce- Shamrock vs. Baroni - Xtreme Couture & Team Millinna train at ASD

Fighters and Coaches from Xtreme Couture and Millennia MMA were in town town training with the Miletich- San Jose Team in preparation for their matches at the June 22nd 2007 Elite XC/StrikeForce Event at the HP Pavilion.

Tony Fryklund, Forest Griffin, Ron Frazier, Stan Kendricks, Jivoni Jordan, Romie Aram, Kirian Fitzgibbons, Mike Pyle and Joe Boxer are pictured after a joint training session at ASD. Good luck guys, your always welcome at MFS-San Jose!

StrikeForce Kickboxing Championships-Steven Wins!

Congratulations to Art of War Fight Team Member Steven Osuna for his impressive victory Friday night 4/20/07 at the StrikeForce Kick Boxing Championships held at the San Jose Civic Center. 

Steven fought a member of Cung Le's "Ush" Fight Team and won via TKO in the 3rd round. His opponent actually quit in the middle of the round due to the damage he had taken during the bout.

Thanks to StrikeForce for putting on the event and to all the Art of War Fight Team fans that came out to support the team.

Fight Girls II

Jeanine Jackson is in town to train with the Art of War Fight Team in preparation for her upcoming spot on Master Toddy's Fight Girls TV show which will air later this year on the Oxygen network. Jeanine has never fought Muay Thai before and is training with Coach Kirian to hone her Thai Boxing skills before she starts on the show. Jeanine is a gifted athlete who learns quickly, she has the potential of a champion. Good Luck Jeanine!