Our Coaches

• Husband & Father
• 2nd Degree BJJ Black Belt
• 3rd Dan Tae Kwon Do Black Belt
• Bachelors in Criminology
• 4th Generation Farmer

Byron Higinbotham is a lifelong martial artist and fitness nut! Growing up on a farm taught him the value of hard work and working with what you’ve got. As a youngster, he built a workout gym in one of his family's hay barns which included hay bale punching bags, hydraulic cylinders as weights, and epic obstacle courses around the stacks of hay. Fast forward to today and now he and his family and a wonderful group of friends have created a similar concept on a much bigger scale for all of you to enjoy on his own farm in Central Point.

Byron started his formal martial arts training in Tae Kwon Do and achieved the rank of 3rd Dan Black Belt. Wanting to grow and have a way of handling a self-protection situation that didn’t involve punching and or kicking someone he took up grappling in 2001. Byron then met his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach, Roy Dean, in 2010 and is currently a 2nd degree Black Belt with only moderate cauliflower ear (BTW there is a way to train BJJ without messing your ears up).

Wanting to supplement his martial arts training with a functional conditioning method he began looking into military obstacle courses. Being inspired by early YouTube vids of the U.S. Navy’s O course at Coronado, Byron began building his own version. You can now find these continually growing and changing indoor and outdoor courses within Higs Performance Academy and utilized in various forms of training including Functional Fitness and Parkour.

Byron loves exploring, traveling, and dreaming with his family. He is continually learning and working to become a better version of himself physically, mentally, and spiritually each day so he can help those around him do the same. He is honored to coach and truly believes in one of our long-standing academy mottos, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another” —Proverbs 27:17.