Absolute MMA (CBD)

World class gym and great community. Apryl's BJJ classes are fantastic, desk staff are really nice as well

I spoke with Tony over the phone about joining up with Absolute MMA and Tony was an absolute legend! I asked a tonne of questions and Tony answered every question in great depth along with great patience and a positive attitude. The customer service was excellent and I'm definitely keen to sign up with Absolute MMA. Seems like there's a great culture at these gyms and you get treated with genuine respect which is great. Thanks heaps Toni! Keen to sign up

Staff are extremely friendly and accommodating. It’s a great place with a lot of value for money. The instructors are very knowledgeable, the equipment is fantastic and the place is kept very tidy. I would highly recommend this gym.

As a young woman, i am extremely proud and happy to see more women at the gym.Coaches are incredibly professional, very helpful and patient.Love this place.

Good fighters, good gym! Best in melbourne technical perspective.But please, aircon in the level 10 would be great !

I've been coming here for about 6 years. Excellent coaches, really friendly people at the gym too. Toohey and Pradeep are fantastic coaches. All the members are very welcoming.Google asked me to update.Still coming here, coaches are still fantastic. No more level 2 boxing which is a shame but more MMA classes.

The only place I train BJJ when in Melbourne! Fantastic, friendly and very knowledgeable. Morning class with Apryl are great

I was really uncomfortable here. I was training to fight at a reputable gym in Mexico this time last year and unfortunately suffered an accident and now suffer from a disability in my hand. With a lot of resilience and determination I returned to training and have been working really hard to adapt to my new abilities. When I came for a booked trial, initially they were trying to send me away as they wouldn’t have space in the gym for me to do the sequences on the bag, I’m not really sure why it would take up more room training on a bag than with a partner, my distance is the same whatever I’m training with. . I was persistent with them and they eventually let me train but then while I was in the class, what other trainers would normally do is help me adapt the sequences to my abilities/bag work which only takes a moment of their time or at the least check up on me once or twice in the class, as you would with fully abled students. The trainer didn’t speak to me the whole class, when I reconfirmed a sequence he didn’t even really bother to show me he just kind of very briefly told me and moved on to help other students. It takes a lot of courage to come back after an accident and start from zero again and I found my experience disheartening and uncomfortable.They have recently responded to my review, I have legitimately reported it and ironically requested “an apology” for the discrimination I received. I have it all in writing their responses including when the person I was discussing the issue with went to my Facebook page and started screenshot ring things from my Facebook page trying to humiliate me saying I was “lying” about my disability, which is in my medical records. I unfortunately did have a similar situation at another gym and was “banned” in response to explaining my disability, not in response to “my behavior” which is also all in writing. At no point have I sort financial compensation, I am genuinely just looking for a good gym and to be treated with respect, I have trained offshore for years. I have reported the matters to the appropriate body in order to prevent other people with. Disability trying the sport being subject to the same discrimination.

I've been training in the City gym for 6 months doing the strength and MMA Fit classes. These are perfect for building conditioning before moving onto specific technical classes in boxing or MMA or bjj etc. I'm a bit older than most and found the trainers I mostly workrd with Moses and Mel -both great professionals and people-would give me personal direction within the group classes. A great hard working unintimidating friendly gym.

I love training BJJ at Absolute. I think there is a great culture and I've met lots of people (now friends) who feel the same there. There are different coaches with different teaching styles as well as a lot of classes for striking, grappling and fitness. I can't compare it to another MMA or BJJ gym because I've never wanted to train somewhere else. Mike