CIT Performance Institute
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About CITPI

A gym built around getting better

Who we are

One room, every level, no ego

CIT Performance Institute is a full-time fight gym in Pretoria: mats, cage, weights and coaches who are in the room every session. Professionals preparing for world title fights train beside members who walked in a month ago never having thrown a punch.

That mix is the point. The standard set at the top pulls everyone up — and the culture around it means beginners get looked after rather than tested. Whatever brought you in, you get structured coaching, honest feedback, and a room that wants you back tomorrow.

Champions

Home of Dricus Du Plessis

The UFC Middleweight Champion and a stable of Africa's top-ranked professionals call this floor home.

Coaching

Elite experience, patient teaching

Coaches who have competed at the highest level and would rather fix your technique than watch you grind.

Facility

Mats, cage, iron — and good coffee

Purpose-built training space with a strength floor, and a café that has become half the reason people hang around.

Technique before intensityYou learn the movement properly first. The hard work lands after that.
Safe rooms, real trainingControlled sparring, matched partners, coaches watching every round.
Everyone starts somewhereBeginners are the majority. Nobody here is judging your first week.
Discipline travelsWhat the mats teach about patience and pressure shows up everywhere else.
The team

Meet the coaches

Bruce MG Moyo
Strength & conditioning Coach

Bruce MG Moyo

Jean Cilliers
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Coach

Jean Cilliers

Wayne Hulme
Kids MMA & Jiu Jitsu Coach

Wayne Hulme

Jaco Du Plessis
Mixed Martial Arts Coach

Jaco Du Plessis

Tyron Lamprecht
Amateur MMA Coach

Tyron Lamprecht

Stephan De La Ray
Amateur MMA Coach

Stephan De La Ray

Niel Geyser
Head Grappling Coach

Niel Geyser

JT Botha
Co-owner & Coach

JT Botha

Claudia Botha
Co-owner & Coach

Claudia Botha

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