About Black Belt Psychology
Black Belt Psychology is the life's work of Marcos Avellan — a system built not by a "fight virgin" psychologist who's never been hit, but by a black belt and coach who has spent over two decades in the cage and on the mat. It's a martial-arts mindset system: the psychology of combat, taught the way it's actually used, for any style of fighting.
Marcos Avellan
Marcos Avellan started training in 1995, during the infancy of the Ultimate Fighting Championship — back when it was still called "No Holds Barred." In 2001 he opened his first gym, the Freestyle Fighting Academy in Miami, and has been teaching ever since. He holds a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and developed his own system of mixed martial arts.
He has cornered roughly 300 fights with an over-72% win rate, putting fighters into the biggest shows — the UFC, Strikeforce, Bellator, EliteXC, and Bodogfight among them — and has coached three grapplers into the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships, the "Olympics of grappling": Enrico Cocco, Rima Avellan, and his brother David Avellan (a four-time ADCC competitor who finished 3rd in the world in Barcelona, 2009).
As a competitor, Marcos won multiple national grappling titles, including the 2004 ADCC Submission Wrestling North American Trials, which sent him to the 2005 ADCC World Championships representing the USA. He fought MMA to an amateur record of 7-1 and a pro record of two wins and a draw, and has taught seminars for the City of Miami Police Department and the National Guard.
Black Belt Psychology distills all of it — seventeen-plus years of competing, coaching, and studying the mental game — into a system anyone can pick up and use to attain the "Black Belt Aura."