Martial Arts Athletics
Welcome to Martial Arts Athletics (MAA), where former NFL All-Pro and Miami Dolphins MVP Chris Chambers has partnered with founder and Sensei Rodrigo Navarrete to create an extraordinary martial arts experience that transforms athletes at every level.
OUR MISSION
Authenticity in movement
Operating out of South Florida, we bring integrity and authenticity to martial arts training, delivering what serious competitors and enthusiasts truly seek a journey toward greatness through discipline, proper technique, and cultural understanding.
Preserving Tradition
For many years, Rodrigo Navarrete trained in New York amongst Asian societies, learning proper etiquette, history and culture -forgotten elements in modern martial arts that we proudly maintain.
Authentic Training
At MAA, we reject instant gratification, instead focusing on proper education and hard work. Authentic martial arts requires precise movement across multiple planes.
Elite Experience
Through years of experience in martial arts, professional sports, and fitness with national and international exposure, we offer a truly one-of-a-kind product.
MULTI-SPORT DISCPLINES
MAA Sports Enhancements
Football
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Develop superior hand skills through trapping techniques that include circular blocking, break release, and breaking grip. Our specialized footwork training circular, lateral, forward and reverse improves acceleration, deceleration, and center of gravity control.
Experience increased peripheral vision on the field, giving you the competitive edge to anticipate and react faster than your opponents.

Basketball
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Basketball demands multidirectional movement: running, dribbling, stopping, jumping, hip mobility. blocking, passing, and turning. MAA addresses all these actions through comprehensive training.
Our approach enhances critical skills including footwork, eye-hand coordination, speed, strength, stability, balance, plyometric hip and shoulder rotation, endurance, reflexes, peripheral vision, and optimal hand placement.

Baseball & Tennis
For tennis & pickleball players, successful racquet/paddle control requires harmony in all movements: preparation, toss, backscratch, contact, and follow-through. Our multidirectional training improves hip rotation, balance, footwork, hand-eye coordination, extensions, endurance, and reflexes are key components for tennis excellence.

Soccer & Hockey

Soccer players benefit from improved kicking mechanics, hip stability, and enhanced depth perception, especially valuable for goalies who gain exceptional eye-hand coordination from MAA Boxing. Hockey athletes, who need reflexes, endurance, power, and balance plus the ability to defend themselves find particular value in our specialized training systems.
Maximum athletic potential through martial arts techniques.
Boxing, Aikido, Wing-Chun, and Jiu-Jitsu systems.
Balance, power, endurance, and center control.
Lacrosse & Golf
Soccer players benefit from improved kicking mechanics, hip stability, and enhanced depth perception, especially valuable for goalies who gain exceptional eye-hand coordination from MAA Boxing. Hockey athletes, who need reflexes, endurance, power, and balance plus the ability to defend themselves find particular value in our specialized training systems.
Better balance through abdominal wall development.
Improved running ability while carrying equipment.
Enhanced catching and releasing while in motion.
Controlled, coordinated movement for power generation.
TRADITIONAL EXCELLENCE
Martial Arts Styles
While martial arts history spans centuries, at MAA we follow Master Gichin Funakoshi’s belief that karate should be accessible to
everyone, regardless of age, gender, or physical ability. Through proper movement, we help you develop overall focus, agility, power,
balance, reflexes, endurance, and peripheral vision.
MAA Classes, tailored to your needs.
Private Sessions
One hour of personalized training focusing on overall agility, power, balance, reflexes, endurance, and peripheral vision. Learn Kick Boxing, Boxing, Aikido, Jiu-Jitsu, Wing-Chun and master your center of balance. Students…
Small Group Sessions
Achieve the same benefits as private sessions while gaining the advantage of shadowing other students’ movements and partnering to execute martial arts techniques. This format provides both personalized attention and…
Large Group Sessions
Experience the synergy of Martial Arts Athletics in a group setting. Sensei Rodrigo Navarrete brings over 50 years of martial arts and fitness science to provide a scientific approach to…
MAA Certified, what you will get.
Dynamic Warm-Up
Activate muscles and improve mobility with our specialized preparation routine designed for athletic performance.
Boxing Fundamentals
Master proper stance, balance, and essential striking mechanics including jab, cross, hook, and uppercut.
Movement Strategy
Develop key footwork techniques and weight distribution principles that enhance agility, speed, and coordination.