Meet Coach Scott

I'm Scott Ferguson and I'll be your coach! I am a father of two, Millie and Stewart, a husband to my wife Gina and we are all active parts of GMBJJ Moultrie as both teachers as well as students. Our family has been so positively impacted by the jiu-jitsu lifestyle that we started this academy in hopes that other individuals and families can experience the same.

Currently, I'm a Gustavo Machado Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and a Rangemaster Certified Firearms Instructor. My martial arts journey began in October of 2010, and it has been an amazing experience that I'd love to share with you.

This really has been a mind-blowing adventure. If you had sat me down with a list of all of the things I'd experience through my pursuits in Jiu-Jitsu, from places traveled to people met and friendships made, I wouldn't have thought it possible. What I've learned, is that if you surround yourself with good people and keep an open mind, the possibilities are nearly endless. This academy are the latest extension of that experience. We're going places, and I want you to be part of it.

Some of my other experiences are Wrestling (Go Rams!), Judo, Filipino Martial Arts, Kickboxing, firearms training (pistol, rifle, shotgun, long range), psychology of the violent criminal actor, bladed weapons training, short impact weapons training, OC (pepper) spray, legal use of lethal force seminars, defense of the home, managing unknown contacts, disaster preparedness, medical training (self defense/get them to the ambulance context), over a decade of autocross and road course racing experience, and I've even sat in on lectures on how to take care of your pets when things get bad!

As for my day job, I've been a Diagnostic Imaging Professional since 2004, traveling all over the country working in the areas of X-Ray, CT, and MRI. This, itself, has led to helping me further understand not only human anatomy and physiology to a high degree, but to use that experience as my own personal data collection center on what really happens to people during unexpected events.

A few of the people and organizations I've had the opportunity to train with and learn from are below, and I've included links to their respective sites. These are some of the best of the best and it's my goal to pass the knowledge I've gained from my years of study on to our students.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Ken Hudson :: Gustavo Machado :: Roberto "Gordo" Correa de Lima :: Henry Akins :: Ryron Gracie :: Roy Harris :: Relson Gracie :: Cole Miller :: Stephen Eakin :: Eli Knight :: Roger Gracie :: Shawn Williams :: Jean Jacques Machado ::

Firearms/Mindset/Medical - Tactical Response :: Jim Higginbotham :: Larry Vickers :: Tom Givens :: Reid Henricks :: Brian Hill :: John Holschen :: Claude Werner :: Greg Ellifritz :: Caleb Causey :: John Murphy :: Dr. William Aprill :: Chuck Haggard :: Darryl Bolke :: Sean Brogan :: Dennis Raines :: Dr Sherman House :: Eli Miller :: Karl Rehn :: Massad Ayoob :: Dr Lauren Pugliese :: Lee Weems :: Paul Sharp :: Lou Ann Hamblin :: Tim Herron :: Andy Stanford :: 

Bladed/Impact Weapons - Morgan Atwood :: Ian Wendt :: Chris Fry :: Larry Lindenman :: Eli Knight ::

Motorsports Experience - Dozens of Autocross events with SCCA, several Course Marshal weekends with SCCA, and 3 years of HPDE (high performance driving event) and Road Course racing with NASA (the race people, not the space people).