Loved it from the start. Coach Elliot is great and the team is awesome. Worth the hour drive.

AFS has become like family to me. I love all my training partners. They have pushed me consistently. This is the best martial arts gym in the state. Stay a while and it'll change your life.

Awesome gym, great people, and badass instructors!

  100% would recommend! Instructors are VERY knowledgeable and helpful to anyone at any level. Great atmosphere and competition, as well as coaching from everyone in the gym!

Love the staff ,my 7 year old grandson has been a student for about a year .Now his sister has started she's 4 they love it and I know it's teaching them so much .I would recommend it to anyone.

Great people and awesome training! Recommending it to all my friends

I've trained at many different gyms, in Kentucky and Massachusetts, and none match what AFS brings to the table. Everyone is very respectful, humble, and have very much of a team mindset where they are willing to help everyone get better. The coach, Scott Elliot, is a great man and very skilled, and that skill shows through the entire team there at AFS. I could go on and on about this place, but if you are looking for a place to train, I definitely recommend AFS.

In a gathering of the best martial artists of the Southeast Scott Elliot and the AFS team stood out. I've trained under many great instructors and he's as good as they get. I can't recommend this gym enough. Great people on and off the mat with elite technique. Definitely looking forward to collaborating with them for as long as I train.

Great guys and gals at the gym - some beasts at the 150 lb weight, beware! Thanks for letting me train with you all. Shout out from Singapore !

  Our 5 year old daughter as well as my husband were lucky enough to be able to train with Coaches Scott, Gina and Adam when we lived in Berea for 3 months. This is an amazing program and one of the biggest reasons we were sad to leave the area!

I visited AFS while on vacation with my family. . The folks at AFS welcomed me without hesitation. The group practiced good technical jiu-jitsu. . What a great place to get your roll on. . Thanks to all that brought the sweat at AFS. . DAVID

Had a great time training here. Everyone was very cool and took me in for the weekend that I trained. Scott gave a great private lesson that helped tremendously. Thanks again to the staff, Gina, Adam, and Emily. Ill be back every time I visit Kentucky.

Super people!!!! Great with my kids.

I was only able to visit Richmond for one day, but training at this gym almost made me want to move to Kentucky! The folks at this gym are some of the friendliest you'll meet, with badass fighting skills to boot. Scott is a great instructor, and I learned a lot from everyone when I was there. If I lived in Kentucky, this is where I'd train. Looking forward to coming back someday!

Very inspiring, I love how the kids also have something to work towards.

Visited a few days from out of town, great group of people, quality training, can’t thank them enough!

A great gym and a very welcoming environment. The instructors are extremely knowledgeable in a variety of areas of fitness, allowing me to not only improve my jiu jitsu but to become a better overall athlete.

I am 43 yrs old and have been training at AFS for a year now, and could not ask for a better place to learn Martial Arts and I live in London which is 53 miles away. They teach 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. Everyone of the instructors are very professional and have a vast knowledge of what they teach and will always go out of there way to help you any way they can. I highly recommend AFS Academy to anyone.