“They’re just dangling the carrot out there for us,” said Mick Doyle, an Omaha gym owner and trainer of MMA fighters. “It’s going to be absolutely huge.”

Easily selling out the Civic Auditorium will go a long way toward getting bigger UFC events to Omaha, perhaps even a pay-per-view event, but there are other growth indicators locally.

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Micah has been fortunate to have been with the gym long enough to watch it adapt to the rise of Mixed Martial Arts in the world. In March of 2007 he got to put his building talents to use helping the team remodel the gym to better suit MMA’s training needs.

The instructors at Mick’s gym have always been ones to keep up with changes as the Unlimited Way philosophy in Gan Teora encourages. In July 2007 Mick asked Micah if he would start a grappling program at the gym to bolster the growing interest in MMA in Omaha. Since then Micah has taken several students to win medals in midwestern grappling competitions and been an assistant coach for Mick Doyle’s ever growing MMA team. He loves coaching and is proud to call Mick’s gym his gym.

The idea is simple, everybody throws one kick for every year. Yes that’s 2009 kicks on the pads, with a partner, in the air and any other way we can dream up. The whole thing takes about 2 hours and is a ton of fun. This workout can be as easy or hard as you want to make it. As always it is not just open to members from the gym. We encourage you to bring friends family and visitors. So start your fitness program off right and kick in the New Year with your friends at Mick Doyle’s Kickboxing and Fitness Center.

may start out jump roping for 6 minutes, stretching against a wall. Then all

craziness breaks out. Suddenly you are holding pads someone is kicking into them, throwing punches. With all your strength you hold that bag and think “I’m Next”. You look at the clock and realize that the hour is almost up and you had a smile on your face the whole time. Just remember it

is best to bring your own gloves (shared gloves get pretty nasty) and arrive 10 minutes before class to get a good spot on the floor.

Colleen

Faced with the pressures of their peers, teachers, adults and the examples of movies, television and music and with superstars and role models in short supply, it’s no secret that young people today are faced with an enormous challenge.

As parents we would like our children to be prepared for the obstacles of life. But in an ever-changing world it is difficult to prepare them for everything that they might encounter. It would be a relief to know that they are ready to make the right choices in whatever they may encounter.

At Mick Doyle’s Martial Arts Center we work to give your child the tools that they will need to rely upon as they go out and face life’s challenges.

Our program focuses on developing the following areas:

• Self Esteem
• Self Respect
• Self Discipline
• Self Confidence
• Self Defense

Martial Arts are a method of developing a complete person physically, and spiritually.

Physically
Gan Teora develops the athleticism and fitness that a person needs to succeed in life. Balance, power, flexibility, speed, stamina and coordination are all developed through Martial Arts training.

Mentally
When a child learns self-defense they gain a great responsibility. They now possess the ability to harm others, and they must learn to live with this responsibility. At Mick Doyle’s Martial Arts Center we teach our students to fight—so that they do not have to. Through vigorous training and self-discipline they learn to choose when to use it, and when not to.

Spiritually
Martial Art is a journey. Through that journey a student learns who they are, what their strengths are as well as their weaknesses. The student learns individual success and how to win as a team. Somewhere along the way the student becomes a whole person.