Ok champ heres the scoop on fight club/five rings and all the rest.
Fight club is the name of Daniel Lima's team, and includes gyms in Brazil and Europe as well as ours here in Oz. So basically all daniel's intruction is done under the FC banner.
We used to train BJJ in the same gym as the Kickboxers (5 rings) but eventually built a BJJ specific gym directly next door to 5 rings. So we were associated with 5 rings but no longer training directly in that gym.
since then, 5 rings has recently moved due to them tearing down the site, and we at Fc will be doing the same, probably to another location within a few minutes drive of the old location. Daniel also teaches at Ashmore at the International College of Martial Arts during the days, as well as giving seminars all over the shop, so hopefully that clear up the mulitple addresses for you. i actually train with him at both locations, and in general the training is a little more intense at FC than the college, but good in both places.
Daniel personally teaches around 90% of the classes here on the gold coast, and only misses class if he's elsewhere for a seminar or a fight. He's the only Aussie (bron in brazil but now a citizen) ranked top 10 in MMA in the world in any weight class (he's 135 lbs). Dont have the link handy but you can see a HL i did for him at dailymotion.com (search for lil devil or daniel lima).
We primarily train in the Gi at FC, however as CM said daniel tends to teach really practical positions and gives you options for no gi as well. We have open mat sessions too where we can train with or without the gi and also help roll with guys who have MMA fights coming up.
We're not of of the biggest Bjj clubs in Aus, compared to John Will of Elvis' gym for example, however the quality or training is at least as good as anywhere else in Australia for BJJ. We have a lot of ex pats form Brazil from places like de la riva, gracie barra and other Marcus Aurelio's gym so there lots of good guys to roll with of all levels (on the GC we have 3 blacks, 3 browns, about 7 purples, probably 10 blues plus lots of whites). For comparison at the last pan pacific titles we sent 14 guys/girls and came back with 14 gold and 21 medals overall, so we certainly do pretty well for the number of guys we have. Best of all as CM said, we're all tight and friendly, and have a good mix of hard training and good times.
As for the gold coast on the whole, you can read my summary of places in australia as compared to the Gc here:
Australia- how hard is it
If you decide to go elsewhere there are other great gyms such as IMA, S-P, Penrith elite, Mach 1 etc so ask again then, but from persoanl experience i'd certainly recommend the GC and Fight Club specifically.
ANIEL LIMA
