Coaches
John Brookfield |
John Brookfield is the founder, creator, and developer of the Battling Ropes System. John has been a leader in the strength and fitness world for many years now. He has been known around the globe for his amazing feats of strength and endurance. He has been on television with shows like Regis and Kathie Lee, The Today Show, and Good Morning America just to name a few. John has been featured in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records. John has authored four books including Mastery of Hand Strength. John has focused his energy ontrying to get himself in the best overall shape ever. He excels in events in which you must have a lot of staying power physically and mentally. For example, John and a partner pulled a semi-truck for a distance of one mile in May 2005. The route was actually slightly uphill making the task difficult beyond words. The pull was done with John and his partner wearing harnesses and pulling the truck like a team of horses. The temperature that day was also a factor, reaching around 90 degrees with high humidity.
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| Steve Mosley | Steven W. Mosley is a head coach with the Battling Ropes System and works closely with John Brookfield on many other projects. Steve has over two decades of law enforcement and special operations experience. He has traveled to 25 different countries in his current job working for the Department of Homeland Security. During his tenure with the government, he has trained and worked with many of the elite counter-terrorism units throughout the world. His personal interests have always been in the fields of physical fitness, firearms and defensive tactics training. He is a graduate of some the top shooting & defensive tactics schools and academies in the United States; PPCT, Thunder Ranch, Heckler & Koch, Smith & Wesson, Offshoots, Rogers Shooting School, Glock, FLETC, FBI and NRA. He is a life long martial artist. He is currently an apprentice instructor in Filipino Martial Arts and Jun Fan Gung Fu under Guro Dan Inosanto and studies Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Sifu Stephen Grantham. Steve also owns a law enforcement and personal protection training business, Mosley & Associates, LLC., and and a personal training business, Combat Hard Fitness & Fighting, both which are located in the Atlanta area. Steve is available for workshops, group trainings and private training on the Battling Ropes Training System. Steve is available for training in the Atlanta area as well as other locations. Contact him at stevenmosley@hotmail.com or call him at 678-410-9871.
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New Coaches Bios
Mike Martino, Ph.D., CSCS, CBRC, CES, ACSM-ETT
Dr. Martino completed his undergraduate degree at Furman University in Health and Physical Education in 1988. From 1990 through 1996, he completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Exercise Physiology at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. During his tenure at Alabama, he served as an assistant coach to the Varsity Swim team. In addition to his coaching responsibilities, he also served as a research lab assistant in the Human Performance Laboratory. He is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength & Conditioning Association and he is a Cancer Exercise Specialist through the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute in Greely, Colorado. He recently completed the Battling Ropes Coaching Certification with John Brookfield.
Dr. Martino has been involved with world-class athletes for more than 20 years. He served as a USA National Team Swimming Coach from 1990 through 2000. He was also a member of the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Advisory Coaching Staff in Barcelona and Atlanta. His educational and coaching expertise have allowed him to travel to many different countries for various professional engagements. His favorite sites have been Russia, Spain, and Cuba. He recently conducted a presentation entitled Battling Ropes: A New Training Concept at the NSCA National meeting in Atlanta, GA, with John Brookfield and Coach Steve Mosley.
Currently, Dr. Martino serves as the Exercise Science Program Coordinator and Human Performance Laboratory Director at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He is the current NSCA Southeast Regional Coordinator and the Georgia State Director. He is an avid mixed martial artist who teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the Milledgeville Academy of Mixed Martial Arts. He is an extremely dynamic presenter who combines science and application. He travels around the country presenting on various topics associated with performance physiology and conditioning. You can contact him at mike.martino@gcsu.edu .
Catherine Imes
Catherine lives in St. Louis, Missouri. She started working out with Free weights 20 years ago in High School.
Battling Ropes Instructor.
RKC (Russian Kettlebell Challenge) Level 2 Certified Instructor
Kettlebell Sport/Girevoy Sport Competitor
Current American Record holder in the Snatch with 200 total Snatches at the NAKF Nationals in San Diego.
First US Born Master of Sports.
Catherine as MS degree in Computer Science and is currently working in the IT field, but I am available for Personal Training in the evenings and on the weekends. She utilizes a variety of modalities and tools to create brutal workout circuits that will help you lose weight and become better conditioned. She is an example of her hard work, this year she has lost 30lbs from this type of training and cleaning up my diet.. She utilizes Kettlebells, Battling Ropes, Sandbags, Barbells ect in her training circuits to keep the workouts short, fun and effective. For more information, please email her at catherineimes@sbcglobal.net.
Bruce Pahl
Bruce Pahl is the owner and president of Immortal USA, Inc. a leader in the industry of quality combat training gear and Wing Chun/JKD training dummies. Bruce is a certified Full instructor in Jeet Kune Do & Filipino martial arts under Paul Vunak & Progressive Fighting Systems. He received a black belt in Chinese Kempo Karate in 1994 from Chuck Sullivan & Vic Leroux. Bruce is a certified coach in the Battling Ropes System under John Brookfield and has worked in the fitness industry as a gym manager, personal fitness trainer and nutritional consultant. Bruce is available for individual or group instruction and certification in the Battling Ropes System.
Bruce currently teaches a small private group in the method of Combat Transitional Flow Concepts.
Bruce served five year in the U.S. Army in the medical/dental field earning his expert field medic & EMT certification. Bruce has been married for 23 years and has one daughter.
Contact: immortalusa@comcast.net or call 866-515-6555.
Chris Mize RN
Chris lives in Birmingham, Al. He has over 25 years experience in fitness and mixed martial arts training. He was the first person to open an MMA only school in Alabama and has cornered fighters all over the world. He holds black belts in Judo and jujitsu, and also teaches muay thai kickboxing. Chris has studied with a virtual who's who in MMA. Gene LeBell, Bas Ruttan, Marco Ruas, and Oleg Taktarov to name a few. An instructor under MMA legend Erik Paulson, he currently is the civilian combatives instructor for the 20th Special Forces Group in Birmingham. A Tactical Athlete instructor under Jeff Martone. Chris is an expert with kettlebells and just about any other combat fitness implement. He was honored to become a coach under John Brookfield and add the battling ropes to his arsenal. Being in the healthcare field he plans on implementing the ropes into fitness programs for Bariatric patients and the more debilitated in his community as well. He is available for individual training as well as groups. Chris has been married for 17 years and has a daughter and son. For info he can be reached at dmize@uabmc.edu.
Vanessa M. Hood
My name is Vanessa M. Hood, and I am a Champion Powerlifter. I am employed as the Director of Campus Fitness, at Winston-Salem State University. I am an AAU World Powerlifting Raw Masters’ 1st place Champion, World Record holder in the Bench Press & the Deadlift and Best Raw Master’s Bencher, an AAU National Push/Pull Raw Masters’ 1st Place Champion, World Record holder (Bench Press & Deadlift), and an AAU North Carolina State Regional Raw Masters’ 1st Place Champion (Bench Press). I am a natural and drug-free champion powerlifter with a career as a fitness professional….and thank you for taking the time to share in my fitness success story. Click here to read the rest of Vanessa M. Hood's wonderful "Success" story.
The First Battling Ropes Level One Certification Seminar is completed. Thank you to all of the new coaches.
New Battling Ropes Coaches
Coach Bill Woolard
Coach William Berkey
Coach Ethan Reeve
Coach Wynn Matthews
Coach David Bass
Coach Vanessa Hood
Coach Harold Harper
Coach Catherine Imes
Coach Maureen Martone
Coach Jeff Martone
Coach Christina Torres
Coach Robert Ratcliffe
Coach David Hoffman
Coach Bruce Pahl
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