CIT Performance Institute
Pretoria · South Africa

Where champions are built

Home of Africa’s top-ranked professional fighters. MMA, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and strength & conditioning — coached properly, from your first class to the cage.

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UFC world champion trains here
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Programmes under one roof
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Experience needed to start
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Ages, levels and goals welcome
The proof

Africa’s top-ranked fighters train on this floor

UFC Middleweight Champion Dricus Du Plessis sharpened his game here, alongside a stable of the continent’s brightest rising professionals. The same coaching, the same standards, apply to your very first class.

CIT fighters
CIT coaches
The coaching

Coached by people who have done it

Years of elite fight experience, and a genuine obsession with teaching. Our coaches watch every round, correct every detail, and build a plan around where you actually are — not where a programme says you should be.

Meet the coaches →
Youth

Kids and teens who leave taller than they arrived

Kids MMA through to High School MMA: real technique in a safe, structured room, with discipline, confidence and respect built in as standard.

Strength

Group strength & conditioning, built for fighters

Power, engine and durability in a room that pushes you. Proven methods, coached in a team environment — you don’t need to fight to train like one.

Questions

Everything you wanted to ask

Still unsure? Phone the gym on 083 655 0023 and we’ll talk it through.

It is a structured curriculum, not a random workout. Striking, grappling and conditioning are coached as one system by people who have competed at the top, in a room where beginners are looked after rather than tested.

None. Most members walk in with neither. Your first session is a free trial where a coach works out where you are and puts you somewhere sensible.

It teaches you to control opponents regardless of size, using leverage instead of strength. That makes it one of the most practical self-defence skills there is, and a serious mental workout on top.

Yes. Kids and teen classes are supervised throughout, partners are matched by size and level, and sparring is controlled. Respect and self-control are taught as hard as technique.

Plenty of members do exactly that. The programme is built for combat athletes, which makes it unusually good at general fitness, durability and power.

Book online through our bookings page, or phone the gym on 083 655 0023. Bring shorts, a t-shirt and water — we will sort out the rest.

First class is on us

Show up once. You’ll be back.