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“The training at Straight Blast Gym has been instrumental in my preparation for reality fighting in the UFC. Matt’s expertise in stand-up and ground fighting techniques have helped me win the Ultimate Fighting Championships.”

~ Randy Couture(UFC Legend!)

We are so confident that YOU WILL LOVE our programs, our COMMUNITY, and our WORLD RENOWED coaching staff that…

               we will let you try it for 45 DAYS FREE!

 “I decided to take up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the age of 41. I am glad I found SBG and started out the right way.Training at SBG is fun, and it gives you a GREAT workout without ever being boring. Nice people, awesome coaches, great place, I love it. And I lost 30lbs since I started training! Try it out, you won’t regret it.”

- Casey Clubb

Not only can you try it for 45 DAYS FREE, but, we are so convinced that you will discover what our members already know, that nobody can offer you the value that SBG Portland does, we do something absolutely unheard of in our industry.

We will give you your money back!

Our exclusive SBG ‘TRIPLE’ GUARANTEE!

#1 A 60 DAY ironclad MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!

#2 A full 45 DAYS of FREE training!

#3 A gift package WORTH $200. Yours to KEEP!

That’s right, try out our programs and if you decide after doing so, for any reason at all, that it is not for you, we will…

1-GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK!

2-You get to keep the FREE training gear package worth $200.00!

3-Plus, you can try it all out for the first 45 DAYS absolutely FREE!

Head Coach, Master Instructor & SBG Founder Matt Thornton featured in the July 2010 issue of Black Belt Magazine. The world’s largest selling Martial Arts publication!

How can we be so confident in our programs?

Because we’ve been in business in Portland for twenty years, we helped produce the founding members of Portland MMA scene, and we produced the State of Oregon’s first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts.

In short, we are simply the best at what we do.

And what we do is bring all those years of experience forward so we can help people just like you accomplish their own goals as it relates to functional, fun, safe, and healthy training. Our motto is:

“SBG, we change lives. Guaranteed”

And we mean it. Let me tell you why we can guarantee that.

                    At SBG you will learn the #1 secret to making Martial Arts training work for you!

This is a secret so old, that trainers and athletes all over the world have used it for thousands of years; so revolutionary, that it’s been almost forgotten by the majority of martial arts on the planet; and so simple, that it will produce results for you the very same day!

What kind of results?

Real results that relate directly to your own personal goals, whether it is getting in better shape, learning to defend yourself, competition, or simply having fun.

“SBG, we change lives. Guaranteed”

While others were copying outdated tradition, SBG founder Matt Thornton was busy diligently creating the optimum environment for people to thrive in.

How so?

Like a scientist in the laboratory, for the last twenty years Matt has been tweaking and fine tuning the SBG curriculum. Boiling down what works to its core, fundamental principles; and developing a set of training methods so effective, that he has been asked to travel literally all across the earth to teach them. Using these methods anyone can achieve their full potential as it relates to Martial Arts. And that means you!

“I have flown Matt Thornton to the other side of the world in order to have him bring his skills, and coaching methods of the Straight Blast Gym to my home of Reunion Island. I cannot give a better example of how beneficial I believe his training programs are then that!”

-Daniel Duby(Kickboxing legend & Savate expert)

                                   Who uses SBG created methods?

People across the planet! Matt has taught all over the world, from metropolitan locations like London, NYC, Paris, Munich, Dublin, Singapore, Bangkok, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, to more obscure locations like Reunion Island, Cape Town South Africa, the Seychelles and Iceland; to name but a few.

Head Coach Matt Thornton, featured in the 2001 issue of Black Belt magazine.The world’s largest selling Martial arts journal.

Looking for effective self-defense?

Matt’s first set of instructional videos were a worldwide best seller, and they were voted among the TOP 5 self-defense videos of ALL TIME by Black Belt Magazine! Here is what Martial Arts video reviews said about Matt’s work:

“If you believe that there has been an evolutionary development in the martial arts over the last few decades, from Bruce Lee to the Gracies to the all-round fighters of today, then you will want to see these tapes. If you have to sell your body to medical science or your sister to an Arab oil sheik, buy these tapes!”

People all across planet pay thousands of dollars a weekend to learn from Matt the secrets to Martial Arts success that are taught daily here in the Portland Gym; the World Headquarters for SBG International.

What started this revolution?

One word, Aliveness!

“I had black belts in multiple Martial Arts prior to running across Matt Thornton’s Aliveness training concepts. Once I realized the truth behind the Aliveness Idea, it completely changed how I viewed the Martial Arts. I also feel that the Aliveness principle has application in other fields of education, and particularly critical thinking skills. At the age of 45 I train actively at the Portland SBG.The training is fun, healthy, injury free, keeps me in shape, andhas benefited me in many ways. I can’t recommend the facility enough.”

- Dr. Peter Boghossian(professor of philosophy at PSU)

 WARNING, other gyms may take a rough, unscientific, meat head approach to training Martial Arts.

At those places you may end up feeling like nothing more than cannon fodder. We’ve seen people with years of training from those types of gyms who still lack even the most fundamental of skills. That is not the place for you.

Or, as often happens in traditional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu BJJ academies, you will get Instructors who strut around the mat offering up fake Portuguese accents, and very poor teaching methods; all the while trying to make up for their unprofessional coaching by constantly referring back to their pedigree (what in Martial Arts is called ‘lineage’) .

That is not what SBG is about.

Though SBG founder Matt Thornton has the pedigree of a Master Instructor and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu BJJ Professor (in fact he is the highest ranking BJJ Instructor in the State of Oregon);starting with the ultimate Master himself, Rickson Gracie (considered the greatest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Master of all time), and continuing on with the pioneers of BJJ and Mixed Martial Arts MMA in America, coaches like Chris Haueter, one of the first Americans to ever receive a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the legendary Randy Couture (who trained for several years on the SBG mats), and other giants of our sport; it isn’t who Matt knows, or who he has trained with that makes SBG special.

What makes SBG completely unique is this. . .

The science behind the innovative training methods we use!

And that is what will directly benefit you, the student, more than anything else.

That’s what allows us to have 45 year old professors, 53 year old attorneys, 22 year old MMA fighters, and Oregon’s best BJJ competition team bar none!*

*(Keep reading & we will give you the stats to prove this claim)

Everyone, regardless of experience, athleticism, or lack thereof, will find the instruction at SBG Portland to be offered in a healthy, safe, intelligent way; a training process which allows everyone to go home injury free, and that much better for being in class; each and every single day.

The Coaching and teaching methods behind the science of Aliveness are famous worldwide.

Things like the“I” method (a process which allows anyone, no matter how new to the sport, to train effectively on day one), the 5 types of drills (specific skill development formats that will help take your game to a whole new level), and the empirical approach the coaching staff, which includes multiple Brazilian Jiu Jitsu BJJ black belts, use, are what makes SBG your ultimate advantage!

You won’t just learn the world’s most effective Martial Arts; you will also learn them in the world’s most effective way! And you simply can’t get that anywhere else in Oregon.

Our motto is: “SBG, we change lives. Guaranteed”

And we will back that up.

Regardless of your personal goals as it relates to training and Martial Arts, whether it is for fitness, self-defense, competition, or simply for fun; we have the technology to help you fulfill them; we guarantee it!

As you can hear from our clients, we do change lives. But, at SBG we are not “life coaches”. We are not going to pass along cliché sayings, or fortune cookie wisdom.

What we offer isn’t just consultation; it’s practical action!

The hard work of planning, testing, and perfecting the routes has already been done.

We’ve created all that for you, it isn’t theoretical; we KNOW what works!

Amanda Loewen,multiple gold medal winner, and member of the SBG Portland Competition Team.

Remember we said Oregon’s best BJJ competitionTeam, bar none; here are the facts:

When you look at the stats of the tournaments, nobody regularly gets a higher percentage of overall medals per competitor entered then we do at SBG.

Some gyms enter tons of competitors, 50 children, etc, and score high on the Team Points solely on that. That’s a reflection of gym ‘size’, but says nothing about the quality of the competitors. Other gyms may have one or two star competitors who medal, but the bulk of the students do poorly. That too, says little to nothing about the quality of instruction there.

To really measure the quality of a gyms training methods, you need to look at how the majority of students do in competition. Not just one or two, but everyone together. Nobody can match SBG when it comes to that! And that is the SBG advantage that can be yours.

What do you need to do to be able to do to get in shape, achieve your goals, and if you want to, compete? All you have to do is this. . .show up

Show up, consistently, and enjoy the classes. The rest will take care of itself.

 Over the last twenty years we’ve designed, modified and perfected a system of training that takes people just like YOU, from zero experience to whatever level you desire; including the gold level competitor level, in a step by step, safe, healthy, scientific way. We have a designated path already mapped out for you, and we will be here each step of your way to help you achieve your goals!

SBG Master Instructor Matt Thornton working with UFC Legend Randy Couture, and ADCC Grappling Champion Jeff Munson.

                                       SBG is a Family Gym!

You will find husbands, wives, brothers, sisters and children all benefiting from the environment we’ve designed to help you thrive. And with Gyms all across the earth, SBG truly is one large, worldwide, tribe.

At SBG it isn’t just the coaches that are here to improve your life, everyone actively helps one another reach their own, personalized objectives.

And you won’t find a more egalitarian environment than our mat. You will have bankers training with construction workers, teachers training with engineers, and doctors training with fireman. SBG truly is for every-body!

When we say SBG is like a family, an extended tribe, we mean it.

                                                        Matt with Coach Lily Pagle.

Lily began training with Matt & SBG when she was in her early fifties. At the age of 61 she became the 7^th person to receive her Brazilial Jiu Jitsu BJJ Black Belt from Master Instructor Matt Thornton. She currently coaches fulltime, and has already produced a Mundials (BJJ’s top competition) world champion!

Not only will you find multiple Brazilian Jiu Jitsu BJJ black belts and world class coaches who have all been here for a decade or longer, you will also be introduced to the gym by Zach Thornton. Zach isn’t just knowledgeable in what we do, he is also SBG Founder, and Aliveness training concepts creator Matt Thornton’s brother.

Zach is our program consultant, and he will help you find the exact program to meet your OWN specific goals. He will personally meet with you and answer EVERY question you may have about SBG; and all of our programs. All of this is absolutely FREE!

What are you waiting for?

This is an absolutely NO RISK opportunity to try the world’s most effective Martial Arts,taught by some of the planet’s best coaches!

Here is what to do:

Call NOW!

  503/230-7924

You can schedule a *FREE* no obligation appointment with Zach, at a time that works for YOUR schedule. Receive a tour of the facility, ask any questions you like, and even try a *FREE* private lesson or group class, to help give you a feel for what you will be learning at SBG!

We are so CONFIDENT that you will LOVE the QUALITY of our programs, and the PEOPLE involved with them, that we offer something NOBODY else in the area would dare offer. . .

45 DAYS FREE and if you decide after trying the program that it is not for you!

we are also the ONLY school to offer a 60 DAY IRON CLAD MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!

CALL NOW, and let us help you reach YOUR goals! This is a NO RISK completely FREE offer:

(503)230-7924

“SBG, we change lives. Guaranteed”