Coach Aaron Phillips
Coach Aaron has lived in Lafayette, LA all his life and began training martial arts at 7 years old. He holds black Belt in Taekwondo. Upon starting high school at Lafayette High, he joined the wrestling team and competed for 4 years. After watching Forest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar fight on the Ultimate Fighter 1, he decided that is what he wanted to in the future, to fight in the UFC. At 17 he began training JiuJitsu, Boxing, and MMA. Attending the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he competed on the Judo team for 2 years. After 10 amateur MMA fights, JiuJitsu tournaments and boxing matches, at the age of 20, Coach Aaron flew to Thailand to train in Muay Thai. After training for 5 weeks and winning his first Muay Thai fight by Knockout, Coach Aaron turned Professional in MMA. Coach Aaron would travel to Thailand 6 times for training, and go 2-0 in Pro Muay Thai. Coach Aaron has gotten to travel all over the world with MMA, including Thailand, Korea, AbuDhabi, and Las Vegas with the Ultimate Fight Championship. Coach Aaron and his wife Charity opened Headkicks Martial Arts on May 09 2016, followed by the birth of their son Hosea on May 24th 2016, and daughter Esther on September 10th 2018.