Alliance Pennsylvania

The training approach at Alliance Pennsylvania maximizes student learning through detailed instruction and monitored sparring for beginners, allowing new students to compile basic techniques to put immediately into practice. As students progress into more advanced classes, they add more techniques to their personal library that build off the basics learned early in training. Students gain a superior way to defend themselves, experience functional fitness, increase flexibility, and meet a great group of people from all walks of life.

Chris Downing has been training jiu jitsu for almost two decades and received his black belt under Alex Britto in 2015. Shannon Downing is a brown belt who has been training since 2011. The gym offers three levels of youth classes (Little Eagles, Youth, and Teens) that teach respect, control, character, and confidence. The youth program specifically teaches children how to safely diffuse encounters without violence using leverage-based holds and defensive maneuvers instead of punches and kicks.