Jim started competing in wrestling at the age of ten. Since then he has had over 600 Scholastic, Freestyle, and Greco Roman wrestling matches. Jim also has competed in Judo and was taught a very practical form of submission grappling called Catch as Catch Can.

The highlights of Jim's grappling career:

• - 1st in the Minnesota State Freestyle Championships (x2)
• - 2nd in the State Greco-Roman Championships
• - 3rd in the Minnesota State High School League Collegiate Style Wrestling Championships
• - First place in the United Kingdom judo championship held in Dublin, Ireland.

Outside of the U.S., James has lived and taught down in Ecuador, South America. He traveled with the Ecuadorian national Freestyle and Greco Roman teams and would participate in exhibition matches against the national wrestling champions from Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. In these wrestling matches against the best wrestlers in South America, Jim finished with a 72-3 (Win-Loss) record.

Jim graduated from Elk River High School in 1983 and is perhaps best known for his multiple World Records in the field of Strength & Fitness.

He started his world record-breaking quest in 1987, breaking four different records over the next three years, more than 30 records to date.

• - 1987 - 2,001 parallel bar dips in 5 hours (World Record)
• - 1988 - 33,001 push-ups in 24 hours (World Record)
• - 1989 - 44,001 sit-ups in 24 hours (World Record)
• - 1989 - 1001 Pullups and 1001 Pushups in 1 hour 17 minutes (World Record)

The world record for number of sit-ups in 24 hours is a record that still stands. The old record of 43,418 sit-ups was held by the Japanese World Record Breaker Ashrita Furman. Clarks established world record is 44,001 sit-ups in 24 hours. (watch the video)

After breaking this world sit-up record he was invited to be a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. Clark then broke the world record held by the legendary fitness celebrity Jack Lalanne, doing 1001 pull-ups and 1001 pushups in 1 hour and 17 minutes to break the 1000 pull-ups and 1000 push-up mark that Lalanne did in 1 hour and 22 minutes.

Jim then took a hiatus from world record-breaking and went on to university to study theology, philosophy (both ancient Greek and Eastern ), Platonic metaphysics, and transcendental meditation.

He graduated with a B.A. in Theology from St. Thomas university and a Master's certificate in theology and Spanish from St. John's University. James earned a Ph.D. from St. Alcuins College and did his Dissertation on Greek philosophy and Platonic metaphysics.

Using the principles gained through his philosophical study and transcendental meditation, Jim has broken over 30 world records. Since his return to weight lifting competition, James has broken world records in;

• - Bench Press (pressing 55,500 kilos in one hour)
• - Lat Pulldown (lifting 91,000 pounds in 58 minutes)
• - Weighted Situps (1,575 sit ups in one hour while holding a 52 pound weight on his chest)
• - Timed Situps (2,201 sit ups in one hour without weight)
• - 651 sit ups in 26 minutes while holding 103 pounds on his chest

The story of James Clark's practical use of Platonic Metaphysics in his athletic competitions has been made into a book and movie. "Platonic Superman" is currently selling on Amazon and is being made into a full length feature film by a Hollywood production company: Zia Films

Tyler Marsh has been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for five years under Junior Brazil. In that time he's also attended multiple seminars under various world champions such as Lucas Lepri, Thiago Coelho, Gabriel Goulart, and Charles Dos Anjos. All of which led up to receiving a purple belt in September of 2011.

Tyler has competed on the local level at Submission Hunt several times and taken a silver and gold medals in gi and no-gi divisions. He competed at Sasquatch Open (Davenport IA) and took a gold and bronze medal. Last year, he competed at the 2008 BJJ World Championship (Long Beach, CA), and while he didn't take a medal, he enjoyed fighting some of the toughest competition he's ever faced.

He now teaches gi and no-gi Jiu Jitsu for self defense and competition under Junior Brazil a second degree Black belt from Sao Paulo Brazil. He's come to appreciate the many different expressions of grappling that new people bring to the art, and tries to help everyone achieve their individual objectives in training.

Kalin has 4 years of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo. He won multiple state Judo championships and mutiple 1st places in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He is a purple belt under Jr.Brasil and has 3 years of teaching experience.

Coy Moore's first introduction to Brazilian Jujitsu was in 1996 when he was a foreign exchange student in Brazil. Then in 1998 he started Aikido and Karate in japan. In 2004 Coy earned his second degree black belt in Aikijujutsu while stationed in Texas. He now studies Brazilian Jujitsu and holds a purple belt under Junior Brazil and when time permits Josh Hayne.

Roberto Ribeiro recently acquired his purple belt and is teaching Brazilian Jiu-jitsu under the supervision of Junior Brazil a second degree Black belt from Sao Paulo Brazil and trained under Cicero Saluistiano a fifth degree black belt In Connecticut.

Stephen Watt is a well-rounded mixed martial artist. Prior to this, he started to wrestle at the age of 12 and competed in several tournaments.

The highlights of his wrestling career include:

Folkstyle State
-2006-9th place
-2007-7th place
-2008-5th palce

Greco State Champion
-2008

National Dual Team
-2008

He coached two years at the middle school and five years with the youth folkstyle,freeystyle and greco programs.

He is currently the Brutaal Genesis 145lb amateur belt holder and recently moved to pro.

Anton Pankou is a Muay Thai expert from Belarus. He was trained at Chinuk gym which is known for producing some of the best Muay Thai fighters in the world. Anton had a record of 21-4 in full contact Muay Thai amateur and kickboxing fights, and was 5-2 as a pro. Anton won the European ISKA kick boxing title at 74 kilos. In his last professional fight, and in front of a large crowd in his opponent's home town of Liverpool, England, Anton knocked out England's kick boxing champion in 3rd round.

He has now dedicated himself to work with serious fighters to achieve the same success in the ring and or cage. If you are a serious Muay Thai fighter or want to improve your Muay Thai to improve your chances of winning MMA cage fights, this is the instructor for you.

Thomas Jones was city boxing champion, upper midwest boxing champion, and compiled a 45-3 record as an amateur fighter. Thomas Jones fought for Don King and went 7-1-1 as a pro fighter. He was a world class light heavyweight fighter in his prime. His resume as a coach is also very impressive. He was Roy Jones Jr.'s corner man, and has taken wrestlers who have never thrown a punch before they came to the CFC and made Ko artists out of them. The Crystal Fight Club is lucky to have him!