Michigan Youth Mixed Martial Arts
USFL provides the Credentialing Backbone for MYMMA. They also conduct background check, training and certifications
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USA Youth MMA
The USA Youth Mixed Martial Art Association is the Parent body to the indipendently ran State Youth MMA orginizations.
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US Fight League
USFL provides the Credentialing Backbone for MYMMA. They also conduct background check, training and certificationsUSFL provides the Credentialing Backbone for MYMMA. They also conduct background check, training and certifications
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UFC Support & Backing
After fighters have competed and gained experience and hopefully titles in the USAYMMA & USFL, the UFC will be waiting for all those qualified as they turn to a professional career.
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What is YOUTH MMA?
Youth MMA under MyMMA is Pankration rules MMA with International Competition
MyMMA is the Authorized USFL Pankration rules MMA Sanctoning Authority and an official Michigan State Affiliate of USA Youth MMA.
What Exactly Is Pankration?
Pankration, or youth mixed martial arts (MMA), is a limited version of adult MMA. It is derived from the Greek words “Pan” and “Kratos,” which translates to “All powers.” Its roots come from the ancient Greek sport that combines boxing and wrestling.
It is the father of all known martial arts and a great way to test your skills as a youth or young adult.
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Our Mission
To help instil and instruct those in our program through Martial Artson the basic principals of good citizenship through personal responcibility, thoughtfulness towards others, leadership in your personal life and in the community and being financially responcibal for yourseld and your family.. Martial arts helps teach the body dicipline and we hope to help teach the heart and mind.
OUR FOCUS
Training camps, local and Statewide contests, Gym and Student recruitment for the USFL
Long term VISION
To promote the sport being included in the Olympics and become one of the channels future youth can use to fill their Olympic dreams
OUR METHOD
providing safe, effective and affordable camps and seminares to help both students, coaches and officials.
FUTURE CHANNELS
Our goal is to create our own video streaming platform for all USAYMMA and USFL gyms, promoters and event producers.
YMMATVWhat Our members Say
Our ever growing list of member have plenty to say about the USFL opportunity the the USAYMMA and MyMMA brings to their kids.
“My sons came home from school on a Tuesday, after seeing a sign on their walk home from school. The following week we had come to this website, signed him up and found them a gym to start their training.”
Anna Johnson
House wife and mother of 2
“My daughter has been in BJJ for 4 years and loved it. But after she saw a poster at her class about National and World championships, she was beside herself. She said “now I have a way to see how good I am” Makes me feel good shes this excited.”
Eric Black
Plumber & Father
“As soon as I heard about this, I signed up as a coach, a lead official and had them register my gym as an official USAYMMA / MYMMA Gym. This gives our gym the Abulity to go to major competitions and even a world title.”
John Collins
Black belt, Boxing Coach & Gym Owner
This is one of the things
we do best
We train WINNERS!!!
Not all Winners go undefeated, in fact, most dont. A true winner is one who can take a defeat, reevaluate their game plan and training, then come back out to put thier skills and their training to another test.
Plan, Do, Check, Adjust, Atack!!!
Thats what we teach, the long game. Not a short term win, but long term VICTORY!
These are also things we do Best!
Teach good citizenship, both locally and globally. We offer financial scholarships to help offset the training and travel cost if our student members fo community volunteer work, tutoring for younger students or work for MYMMA or our affiliates.
We also teach our students how to be globally responcible by being a strong Ambassador for the USA, The USFL, USAYMMA and MYMMA in all they do.
We also instill the importance of school and attending classes and getting good grades. We offer tutoring and other educational assistance to make sure that our fighters are also thinkers and ready for the real world as a young adult.
This is one of the things
we don’t do best… Make a profit!
We do everything we can to keep the cost per child to a minimum, because we know many families have more than one child…and times are tough for many of these families.’
We offer scholarships to help offest expenses and we work with gyms to help keep training costs down.
We also work with equipment manufacturers and suppliers to get reduced prices on training gear.
But when it comes down to it, we need to keep the doors open and to do that we need people like you.
We would love a gift of $20,000 or more but we are realistic. Your gift of $20, $50 or $100 would do us more good because everyday Americans can afford that amount for the kids.
Help us out and donate today.
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Our Awesome Team
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Richard “POPs” Miller
Co-founder, CEO & Michigan USFL Diector
Pops has a long, yet steady history, being introduced to the art of Boxing and wrestling at the young age of 10.
Mentoring and training youth for over 30 years as a coach in High Scool wrestling. Football, baseball as well as the combative sports.
He has founded and is still active in the CFFO of Holland and other youth ministries. He also served as a Boy Scout Leader and is a single father raising several kids of all ages.
Pops has been involved in sports training camps, many charity fund raisers, organizing and promoting events from 5k charity runs, to awards banquets. Pops has even been involved in promoting music concerts and of course his work with the combat sports, producing and promoting pro-am boxing with USA Boxing and 15 independant MMA fights.
His resume in the fight and training world of Michigan is unmatched and speaks for itself, and when paired with his long term multi-decade dedication to working with the kids, make him the perfect candidate for the USFL Director in Michigan and other states as well as the Leader Of USAYMMA and MyMMA fight associations.
Roger L. Bouwman
Co-founder, COO & Michigan USFL Co-Diector
Roger graduated in 1982 from Coopersville, All State 2nd Tean Defence and honerable mention Offensive tackle in football. He went on to Hope College, starting at Defensive tackle and joining the Kappa Eta Nu Fraternaty.
After college he spent 15 years in the construction industry, from office interiors to converyor systems and control automation. Being forced to change industries suddenly on 911.
After 911 he found himself in the entertainment industry for almost 20 years, most of that doing science programs, like a 20 foot inflatable dome mobile planetarium or 3D laser imaging.
In 2015 he purchased the “Baptized by Blood” Combat Sports Fight League and donated the league to the CFFO of Holland (who has made that name available for UASYMMA & MyMMA).
In 2016 he started GringoDog’s Hotdog Shop and Catering, running food carts and trailers and he also teaches personal and professional development and financial literacy education.
Roger brings his entertainment and marketing experience, love for educating and entertaining kids along with a tech savy future vision of this organization to our team.
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