Pride Mixed Martial Arts
Instructors
Our qualified instructors are nationally certified and uphold the highest standards in teaching personal protection.
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Our qualified instructors are nationally certified and uphold the highest standards in teaching personal protection. With a wealth of experience in the combat arts, our team has developed a program that is designed to build students progressively, in an environment that is enjoyable and safe.
Jason Epps
Fierce & Fearless Co-founder and Head Coach at Pride Mixed Martial Arts in Edmond, Oklahoma. At nine years old Jason Epps enrolled in a martial arts class hoping he would learn to protect himself from the neighborhood bullies that terrorized him on a daily basis. Not only did the martial arts teach him self-defense, it taught him how to be more disciplined, confident, and self-controlled. The Martial Arts soon became a passion that would define his life.
Teaching is more than a passion for him. He knows firsthand that the values and principles, taught through the martial arts, are life changing. Coach Epps’ purpose and mission for Pride Mixed Martial Arts is to empower his students to live life without limits or compromise.
Coach Epps Holds the Following Ranks and Titles:
- Warriors’s Way International – Full Instructor
- Sayoc Kali – Full Instructor
- Atienza Eskrima – Associate Level 1 Instructor
- Lovato Brazilian Jiu-jitsu – Purple Belt
- 5th degree Black Belt Tae Kwon Do
- 5th degree Black Belt Bak Sei Gung Fu
- 2nd degree Black Belt Yuan Wha Ryu
- 1st Degree Black Belt Kenpo
- Black Belt Krav Maga
Coach Epps is also a 4x Undefeated Texas Kickboxing Champion and 2x Texas Full Contact Karate Champion. He currently has produced 8 Muay Thai World Champions and 3 National Champions.
Jessi Cargill
Fierce & Fearless Co-founder and Lead Instructor at Pride Mixed Martial Arts. Coach Jessi Cargill started her training soon after enrolling her children at Pride Mixed Martial Arts over ten years ago. Since then, all three have earned their Black Belts.
Coach Jessi is the Program Director for Pride Mixed Martial Arts. With an extensive background working with children and teens, Coach Jessi lives out her passion of teaching kids on a daily basis. Prior to teaching at Pride, she operated a successful home daycare and used her love and knowledge of horses to help troubled teens at a boy’s home using equine therapy.
Coach Jessi is truly an inspiration. She became the 2012 IKF Kickboxing Women’s Super Light Weight World Champion at age 38! No easy feat, considering most of her opponents were in their twenties!
Her drive and passion to empower women has led her to develop a women’s personal protection program called Fierce and Fearless! Teaching women rape prevention and self defense through workshops and seminars.
She is the spokeswoman for Designing a Safer Woman, a collaborative women’s safety project empower and educate women and help them design personal protection plans, based on their lifestyles.
- 4th Degree Black Belt under Jason Epps
- Warrior’s Way International – Full Instructor
- Sayoc Kali – Apprentice Instructor
- Thai Boxing Association – Associate Instructor
- 2012 IKF Women’s Super Light Weight World Classic Champion
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