The house
that work built.

Founded 2019. One roof, fourteen coaches, and a simple belief: ordinary people can hold hard standards.

01  Our Story

From a borrowed ring
to a full house.

We opened in 2019 with a borrowed boxing ring, six barbells and a lease we could barely cover. The plan was never to be the biggest gym on Katipunan. It was to be the one where the coaching is real, the mats are clean and nobody trains alone unless they want to.

Five years and one pandemic later, the floor has grown to 1,200 square meters: a strength pit, a striking room with eight heavy bags, a competition-size mat space and an engine room of bikes, rowers and sleds. What has not changed is the rule we started with: every person who walks in gets coached, whether they came to fight or just to feel human again after a desk day.

Today about nine hundred members call this place theirs: students, nurses on night shift, tito lifters, amateur fighters and kids who bow on and off the mats. Come be one of them.

Quiet moment on the dark training floor between rounds
The floor, after hours

02  What We Stand On

Four rules,
no exceptions.

Earned, not sold

No belt, spot on the fight team or bragging right in this building can be bought. Progress here is measured in showing up.

Safety is technique

Sparring is a privilege with prerequisites. Coaches control intensity, gear is mandatory, and egos get benched before people get hurt.

Hard is the point

We will scale the load, never the standard. The workout that changes you is rarely the one you were in the mood for.

Everyone gets a corner

Fighters get a corner in the ring. Everyone else gets one too: a coach who knows your name, your knee history and your next goal.

03  Inside The Building

A working floor.

Dumbbell rack row on the strength floor
Cardio row lit low in the evening
Bike studio before the morning class
Gloves resting on the ring canvas
Mobility class working through floor drills
Member setting up a deadlift on the platform

04  The Corner

Fourteen coaches.
Here are the leads.

Boxing Marco Villanueva on the training floor
Marco VillanuevaHead Coach, Boxing. Former national amateur team, 12 years coaching.
Strength Katrina Reyes under the bar
Katrina ReyesStrength & Conditioning lead. CSCS, national powerlifting qualifier.
Muay Thai Paolo Santiago mid bag round
Paolo SantiagoMuay Thai lead. 40+ pro fights across Thailand and the PH circuit.
Jiu-Jitsu Denise Aquino coaching positional rounds
Denise AquinoBJJ lead, brown belt. Manila Open gold, no-gi specialist.
MMA Jerome Uy between coaching rounds
Jerome UyMMA lead. Collegiate wrestler, 8-2 amateur MMA record.
Youth Bea Torres running warm-ups
Bea TorresKids Program lead. PE educator, 8 years youth martial arts.

Come see it for yourself.

Plan your visit Call the gym

Tours run all day. Ask for any coach on the floor and they will walk you through.