動きは薬:Real Movement and Martial Artsの内側
Starring
Joey Diehlは、イリノイ州バートレットにあるReal Movement and Martial Artsのオーナー兼ヘッドプロフェッサーです。Jeff "Big Frog" Curranのもとで取得したBJJ黒帯で、12勝10敗の戦績を持つプロMMAのベテランでもあります。5歳でレスリングを始め、14歳の誕生日に母親から柔術の会員権を贈られました。その母親は今、ジムの受付で働いています。19歳でプロに転向。20代前半の腰のけがをきっかけにヨガを始め、25歳で資格を取り、以来ずっと教えています。2021年に、間借りした部屋の半分で生徒3人からアカデミーを始め、5年で会員300人超に成長させ、2025年には13,000平方フィートの建物全体を借り受けました。「僕はただ柔術を練習している人間じゃない。武道家なんだ」と語っています。
About the Gym
Real Movement and Martial Arts is a hybrid martial arts and wellness academy in Bartlett, Illinois, in the northwest Chicago suburbs, founded in 2021 by Joey "The Real" Diehl—a BJJ black belt in the Team Curran / Pedro Sauer lineage, a 12-10 professional MMA veteran, and a certified yoga teacher of ten years.
The academy puts Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA at its core and layers yoga, mobility, and group fitness on top, all framed as one practice: "real movement." Programs run from kids as young as three through adults, with a women's jiu-jitsu program led by head women's coach Tayla Meredith and a kids program led by head kids coach Kyle Perkins. The "real" in the name is the point—Joey defines it as authenticity, the opposite of gimmicky fitness fads.
📍 Location: 891 S IL Route 59, Bartlett, IL 60103
📱 Phone: (847) 987-7325
Summary
This is the story of a pro fighter who decided he was a martial artist first—and built a gym around the difference.
Joey Diehl started wrestling at five, was gifted a jiu-jitsu membership at fourteen by the mom who now works his front desk, and turned pro at nineteen. A back injury sent him to yoga at twenty-one, and he never drew a line between the two again.
He opened Real Movement and Martial Arts in 2021 with three students in a sublet half-room and the belief that "movement is for everyone"; five years later he took over the entire 13,000-square-foot building. His thesis throughout: "I'm not just someone who trains jiu-jitsu. I am a martial artist."
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