Dave is a life long martial artist having started his journey at the age of 7 with his family.
He has practised Karate and Kickboxing, which then moved him towards the MMA scene. This was where he was introduced to grappling, so he sought after the best grapplers to train under. Dave trained from 2003 in mostly the No-Gi with Professor Braulio Estima and Stuart Gwilt to improve his MMA.

Dave is now part of Dream Art Rugby’s coaching team and runs the No Gi programme, which has seen excellent competition success and is only getting stronger!

Coach Dave Thomas is available for Private Lessons in kickboxing & No-Gi grappling for MMA.