Middletown Martial Arts

Buyer beware, Tri State Karate aka: Tri State MMA and now doing business as Victory MMA are crooks. These guys are glorified Tang So Doo instructors trying to profit by advertising they offer MMA, Jiu Jitsu, Thai Boxing and even Israeli special forces training. The prob...lem is they are not certified in any of these areas! In my opinion these guys represent everything wrong with the martial arts world today. If you are concidering training at this school you would be better off watching dvds at home, because thats what they do before they teach you! Read More

tristate started out as being a good school...until all of the costs and expenses came into play..we are a family that didnt have much money and everything costs over at tristate. all of the weapons and all of the extra training classes and all of the sparring gear and ...there were certain uniforms for each event and there were no breaks. Also, we were locked into a 2 yr contract true, i feel that we were lied to and taken advantage of. Also, Mst Gartland is a very moody man...very sweet one day and very nasty the next. The training was sloppy and the students were allowed to be lazy. The students were advanced even if they didnt know what they were doing or if they were sloppy. Not enough discipline and students were allowed to stand on line and talk in class sloppily. We werent happy with the school after a while, we wanted to leave and had to go through a lot of trouble to get out of the contract, we were given a hard time but eventually we got out.. Read More