WHY WE DO THIS.
TRITAC exists to help people become more capable, more confident, more disciplined. Through real martial arts and strength training. In a training center where respect comes first.
We coach beginners, hobbyists, athletes, parents, first responders, and military. Some come for fitness. Some for competition. Some because something happened. The work is the same. You leave better than you came.
“We take the work seriously. We don’t take ourselves theatrically seriously.”
A RESPECT-FIRST GYM, BUILT FOR REAL GROWTH.
What you feel walking in is the standard. White belts roll next to pros. No one gets smashed. Hard sparring is earned, not assumed.
The standard stays high. The door stays open.
- We take the work seriously.
- We do not take ourselves theatrically seriously.
- Beginners are welcome.
- Hard training is respected.
- Hard sparring is earned.
- People help each other get better.
11 COACHES. NAMED. ON THE MAT.
TRITAC is built by working coaches with real credentials and real time on the mat. BJJ black belts. Kobukai black belts. A pro MMA fighter. A multi-style sensei. A combatives lead taking the system into school safety curricula. A head strength coach for combat athletes.
MEET ALL COACHESWHAT TRITAC IS.
TRITAC is the no-BS approach to learning martial arts without getting trapped in one way of thinking. There are a hundred paths. We give you the map and compass.
On the floor it runs as four programs: MMA, Jiu-Jitsu, Self-Defense, and Strength & Conditioning. Same coaches across them. Same fundamentals. Different ranges, different rules.
“When you focus on the movement of combat, the body moves the way it’s supposed to and combat becomes easy.”— MATT, ON THE METHOD
Pieces of the system run in West Hartford’s school safety curriculum. The same system also powers the TRITAC Training Hub, our online coaching product launching this year.
20,000 SQ FT. BUILT TO TRAIN.
Twenty thousand square feet of dedicated training space. Mat, cage, striking floor, strength corner, support spaces. A real headquarters. Serious, organized, clean. Built so beginners don’t feel lost and serious students have room to work.
SAT · 8a–2p
SUN · 8a–1p
MORE THAN CLASSES.
Members run together outside the gym. Group outings. Competition team trips. Member events. After a year here, you’ll know most of the members by name. The mat is the easy part. What you stay for is the people you keep showing up next to.
MATT BRYERS · FOUNDER · HEAD COACH
Started at 14 in Shorin-Ryu Karate in Berlin, CT, and picked up wrestling shortly after — 35 years on the mat since. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt (3rd Degree). Kobukai Jujitsu, 5th Dan (Kaiden). Years in Kyokushin Karate under Shihan Fujiwara — competing against their black belts and teaching jiu-jitsu there — plus American Kickboxing, Judo, Modern Arnis, Defence Lab, and Keysi.
17 years running a training center. Over 5,000 students since 2007, one signed waiver at a time. 50+ MMA and grappling competitors. Hundreds of law enforcement, military, and security professionals. Multiple professional fighters have come out of this gym, including UFC flyweight Carlos Candelario.
Co-created the TRITAC Combatives self-defense program, now integrated into West Hartford’s school safety curriculum. Coaching philosophy blends real-world self-defense with proven sport-fighting tactics. Teaches most nights.