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We at MMACoach.net are dedicated to making you better in MMA and self-defense. Our maxim “train smart – than hard” is what we’re all about. Smart training methods above all else, then hard work.
One can’t exist without another, but unfortunately, we’ve seen a lot of hard workers in MMA that come up short because they were missing the most important ingredient – systematic and intelligent approach to training.
And this is where we come in. Let us be your guide through the world of Mixed Martial Arts and self defense and we will show you how to train properly, win fights, change the way you think about training and minimize your chance of injury. You will recieve tricks, tips, techniques and articles on various subjects connected to MMA. We will also feature techniques from other experts.
About Mark Lajhner
MMA Coach | Former Undefeated Fighter | International Seminar Instructor | Martial Arts Educator
Mark Lajhner is a Serbian MMA coach, former undefeated MMA fighter, and martial arts educator. His journey in combat sports began in 1990, and he has been coaching martial artists since 2006.
He began his martial arts journey in judo, where he competed at the national team level and won numerous medals. He later competed in freestyle wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, submission grappling, and MMA, retiring from MMA competition in 2008 with an undefeated record.
Driven by a commitment to continuous improvement, Mark traveled internationally to learn from leading MMA coaches and train alongside elite athletes. His most influential mentor was August Wallén of Gothenburg, Sweden — founder of the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF), a pioneer of Swedish and European MMA, and a highly respected MMA coach and educator.
Today, Mark’s primary focus is not simply teaching individual techniques, but helping students and coaches understand MMA as an integrated fighting system.
His teaching philosophy centers on efficient training methods, logical progressions, attention to detail, and the seamless integration of striking, wrestling, clinch work, and ground fighting.
As the founder and head instructor of Kaizen MMA Academy in Belgrade, Serbia, Mark has coached martial artists of different skill levels and backgrounds, from complete beginners to competitive fighters.
He has conducted international MMA seminars and summer training camps, and served as an instructor in an official MMA coach education program organized by the Serbian MMA Federation.
Through MMACoach.net and his YouTube channel, Mark has been educating martial artists worldwide since 2014, sharing his knowledge through instructional videos, training programs, and practical coaching advice.
His mission is simple: to make MMA easier to understand, more efficient to train, and more effective to teach.
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Mark Lajhner is one of those rare occurrences in the world of martial arts, where an elite level athlete manages to evolve into an exceptionally good coach. I have been working in athletic performance enhancement for quite a few years and my main focus is the development of the most effective teaching methods to accelerate learning in combat athletes, so it is quite hard for me to get impressed by an instructor’s teaching skills. Still, when I visited Mark’s Kaizen MMA Academy and had the opportunity to train there, I was mind-blown by how incredible an educator Mark is.
He explains techniques with just the right ratio of explanation to demonstration and breaks them down to partial skills, gradually progressing from easy to hard, simple to complex, known to unknown. The result is something I have rarely seen in my twenty five years of martial arts training: all the students seem to absorb the knowledge and get his point simultaneously!
If you want to build your MMA game on a solid basis that allows you to constantly improve, I’d say you can’t do better than train with Mark in person, in the Kaizen MMA Academy or in one of his summer camps. If this is not an option, his instructional DVDs is the next best thing. You will be surprised by how good you can be in the MMA game – I guarantee that!