Colorado's original martial arts academy.
We are a Colorado-based martial arts academy founded in 1998 with a focus on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. Easton Training Center has nine locations along the Front Range and the Denver-metro area.
Most of our academies offer martial arts classes seven days a week — Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Kids BJJ and Muay Thai. Our kids’ classes start as young as four years old, and we have classes for students of all levels, from beginners to seasoned competitors and everyone in between.
We also offer small group and private lessons, with a weekly schedule ranging from morning to evening. As with all of our locations, a membership at one Easton Training Center academy gives you access to all of the others.
We take safety and hygiene seriously, maintaining clean mats and training areas — and we ask every student to do their part, keeping food and shoes off the mats and gear clean, so training partners are back tomorrow. Join us on the mat and uncover your own potential.
Advanced and competitive for professional fighters. Welcoming from your very first class.
Easton Training Center's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu lineage stems from Renzo Gracie, under whom founder and owner Amal Easton received his black belt. The academy got its start when Professor Amal moved to Colorado after three and a half years in Brazil training with the Gracie family — launching a school at a time when BJJ was nearly unheard of. A long-time Thai boxer, he built Muay Thai into the curriculum from day one. Through continued training and travel to Brazil and NYC, Professor Amal became the seventh person to receive a black belt from legendary competitor and instructor Renzo Gracie.
In 2011, UFC fighter Eliot Marshall came on board as a co-owner. Eliot received his black belt in BJJ from Professor Amal, and together with Amal and President Mike Tousignant, grew Easton Training Center from a singular focus on Jiu Jitsu into a principle-driven, holistic approach rooted in discipline, respect and leadership — from the mats to management.
President Mike Tousignant runs Easton Training Center alongside Amal and Eliot. Together the three of them grew a single Jiu Jitsu school into nine academies across the Front Range and the Denver-metro area, on the principles the mats teach — discipline, respect and leadership.
From one mat to nine academies.
Amal Easton opens the school after training three and a half years in Brazil with the Gracie family — one of the first BJJ academies in Colorado.
UFC fighter Eliot Marshall, an Amal Easton black belt, joins as co-owner. Together with President Mike Tousignant, the academy grows into a principle-driven system.
Find your Easton.
Try a beginner-friendly class at any of our 9 Colorado academies — your first class is on us.
