Coaching and Instruction

Wrestling

Ryan Tobin

Ryan Tobin is the Owner and Founder of Rino Sport Galleri and a former three-time Division I All American from the University of Nebraska.

In 1997, he won the Pan American Championships and University National Championships in freestyle. The following year, Tobin was a Big 12 Champion, wrestling in the 190 pound weight class. He was also named University of Nebraska Weight Lifter of the Year.

Tobin’s achievements extend far beyond the wrestling mat: he was a three-time NWCA Academic All American, a two-time GTE Academic All American and also earned an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship. Tobin received his MBA and Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska in 2001.

With 10 years of coaching experience, Tobin’s coaching career began in 1998 as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Nebraska, where he was attending graduate school.

In 2003, he joined the coaching staff at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant coach, where he focused on development of the upper-weight wrestlers. While at Pennsylvania, he coached 4x All American heavyweight, Matt Feast while training with Olympian Kerry Mccoy out of Lehigh.

A four-time state medalist, Tobin captured the South Dakota state championship his senior year of high school, finishing his final season at Brandon Valley High School with a perfect 37-0 record, including 27 pins. He was named the tournament MVP during his senior season and earned an 126-32 career record. He was also a three-time regional MVP and placed 6^th at the National High School Championships in 1993.

The South Dakota native graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1998 with a degree in business administration.

Joe Warren

Joe Warren is an Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and mixed martial artist signed to the organization Bellator Fighting Championships, of which he is the featherweight division champion. He is also co-owner of the RiNo Sport Galleri and a resident coach who helps to train athletes in wrestling and mixed martial arts.

In 2006, Warren became the fifth American to win a gold medal in Men’s Greco-Roman competition at the World Championships. He was also the winner of the 2006 Pan American Championship and a World Cup champion in 2007.

Warren was a standout wrestler at the University of Michigan and a two-time Division I All American. He received the Cliff Keen Award in 2000, awarded to the University of Michigan’s Outstanding Wrestler of the year.

Other accomplishments include winning the U.S. National Championships in 2005 and 2007, becoming a University National Champion in 1998 and taking 6^th place at the University World Championships in the year 2000.

Warren began his wrestling career at East Kentwood High School in Kentwood, Michigan where he won two state championships and held the national takedown record for a number of years.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Kimo Kreis

Kimo started his training in 1995, at the age of 19, after watching a few Ultimate Fighting Championship matches and seeing a little Brazilian guy named Gracie beat up tough guys much bigger than himself. He learned that the Gracie style of instruction was available at the University of Hawaii (UofH) Manoa campus. When he went to his first class, he found there were 250 people in the white belt class and about 100 people in the blue belt class ... and there was a 500-person wait list. A month later a Gracie class open at another location on Oahu (Gracie Aeia) and Kimo began his official Gracie Jiu-Jitsu training. In 1995, Kimo transferred back to the UofH class where he trained directly with Relson Gracie.

Kimo continued his training under Relson Gracie until he moved to California in 2001, where he trained at the Ralph Gracie Mountain View Academy. When he moved back to Hawaii in 2003, Relson had Kimo regularly instruct classes at all levels through Purple Belt at the Relson Gracie Main Academy, while Relson focused on conducting seminars. Kimo's reputation as a skilled instructor grew and his classes became very popular among students at all levels.

In 2005, Kimo received his Black Belt from Relson Gracie and then moved to South Carolina, where he gave private lessons. In 2008 he returned to Hawaii and became the resident Black Belt instructor at the Kaneohe Team Academy (a Relson Gracie Affiliate). That year he was also promoted to 1st Degree Black Belt. In 2009, he helped open another Relson Gracie Affiliate, Gracie Waikiki, again serving as the resident Black Belt Instructor. In 2010, Kimo was awarded his 2nd Degree Black Belt from Relson Gracie and he has now found a home in Denver, Colorado where he has opened his own Academy, the Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy - Denver, a Relson Gracie Affiliate.

Using Relson Gracie's Jiu-Jitsu theory and instruction as the foundation for his own classes, Kimo brings a vast knowledge of what jiu-jitsu really is and what it is to be used for ... a safe way to practice street fighting. Ralph Gracie's influence of a tough approach to training and grinding a good work day for practice has helped him discipline himself in the pursuit of excellence. With his travels, he has seen how many gyms operate and has had a chance to see both good and bad techniques. He is able to tailor his instruction, incorporating a variety of techniques that best benefits students with varying levels of skill and training objectives, from beginners seeking a good exercise program, to children who want to learn the self discipline inherent in martial arts training, to serious fighters who want to win their next match!