About
One Mission MMA
Serious training. Welcoming environment. One dedicated facility.
- Earley, Reading
- Ages 4 and up
- Free first session
Who we are
A dedicated gym in Earley
One Mission MMA is a combat-sports facility at 20 Pitts Lane, Earley, Reading RG6 1BT, teaching mixed martial arts, kickboxing, boxing, No-Gi Brazilian jiu-jitsu and freestyle wrestling to adults, teenagers and children. It is not a class in the corner of a commercial gym or a leisure-centre programme — it's a permanent training space with its own mat, its own equipment and its own timetable.
The membership is mostly ordinary people. Office workers, tradespeople, students, parents, teenagers, and a steady stream of complete beginners who spent a year thinking about it before messaging. A minority compete. The rest train because it's a genuinely interesting skill and because an hour of concentrating on something difficult is the best available antidote to a day at work.
What we try to be good at is teaching. Classes are built in progressions, coaches correct rather than supervise, and the same faces coach the same sessions every week so they know what you're working on. That's the whole proposition.
- Classes each week
- 27
- Disciplines
- 5
- 31 Google reviews
- 5.0★
- First session
- Free
How we coach
Four things we won't compromise on
Every gym says it's welcoming. These are the specific commitments that make it true here.
Beginners are the point, not an inconvenience
Dedicated beginner sessions exist because learning a stance in a room of experienced fighters is miserable. Nobody has to earn the right to be taught properly.
Sparring and competing stay optional
Permanently. Most members never compete and a good number never spar. Both are available and both are properly coached — neither is an expectation.
We say what we actually run
If a discipline is one class a week, we'll say so rather than implying a full programme. You should be able to trust the timetable on this website.
Ego is the main safety risk
Technique can be taught; how people treat their training partners has to be enforced. Coaches supervise pairings and cap intensity, and that culture is non-negotiable.
Coaching team
The people on the mat
Hamza Mirza
Head Coach
Hamza leads the grappling side of One Mission, coaching No-Gi BJJ, Gi BJJ and freestyle wrestling. His sessions build from positional fundamentals through to the scrambles and transitions that decide a match, and he keeps beginners moving with clear, patient instruction.
Ubaid Mirza
MMA / Striking Coach
Ubaid coaches the striking and MMA programme, from first-timers in beginners kickboxing through to intermediate and advanced adult sessions. He also runs the junior and teen kickboxing classes and the men's fitness circuit.
Luke Dir'u Yasmine
BJJ Coach
Luke coaches the junior and teen No-Gi BJJ classes. His sessions focus on control, escapes and problem-solving on the mats, taught in a structured way that suits younger students and complete beginners.
Laura
Ladies Coach
Laura coaches the ladies-only programme at One Mission — boxing, No-Gi BJJ and fitness. Her classes are women only and built around skill development in a supportive, judgement-free environment.
“I came for fitness and stayed because I was learning something. Two years later I still can't quite explain it to people at work.”
“My son was painfully shy. Six months in, his teachers noticed before we did.”
Questions
About One Mission
No, and most people who walk through the door don't have any. A large share of our members had never thrown a punch or been on a mat before their first session. Classes are taught in progressions: the coach shows a movement, breaks it into parts, and then walks the room while you drill it. Beginners are paired with people who know how to train safely with someone new, and nobody is thrown into hard sparring on day one. Tell the coach it's your first class and they will keep an eye on you the whole way through.
Free first session
The best way to judge a gym is to stand in it
Message us and we'll book you into a class that suits your experience level.