Deep Water Jiujitsu Instructors

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Elizabeth Maxwell is a black belt under Scott Devine, Devine Jiujitsu.  She received her black belt in April 2022 after training with Clifton Buckles at Constrictor MMA for two years.  Prior to Constrictor MMA, Elizabeth trained with Jeff Curran at Curran JiuJitsu Academy for eight years, reaching the rank of brown belt. 

Coach Liz is a specialist in the Gi (jiu jitsu uniform). Her understanding of how to control and submit much larger opponents using their clothing against them is rivaled by few other instructors. A Deep Water gem, Liz is helping lead the way for women and young ladies to find confidence and true self defense skills through jiu jitsu. She teaches the kids, beginners, mixed level, and competition classes on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Robert Mesce is a black belt under Scott Devine.  He has been training martial arts for over 24 years. Rob began his Brazilian jiu jitsu journey under Roy Craddock in 2013 and later under Jake Wattenberger. Coach Rob has been teaching martial arts for over sixteen years including operating his own gym for 13 years before closing due to the covid pandemic. 

In addition to being a BJJ black belt, Rob is a 5th degree black belt under Christian Jensen of American Freestyle Martial Arts (Kempo, kung fu, Traditional jujitsu, kickboxing) as well as spending 9 years training submission wrestling for MMA under UFC veteran & BJJ black belt Dan Stittgen. 

Coach Rob has competition experience in submission grappling, Jiu Jitsu, karate as well as going undefeated in amateur MMA where he earned multiple fighter of the night, fight of the night and KO of the night awards. 

He specializes in games to make learning faster, more fun and an amazing workout.  He teaches kids, fundamentals and advanced classes on Mondays and Wednesdays. When not at Deep Water he can be found teaching at the world famous Redzovic Jiu Jitsu Headquarters in Chicago, IL

Jason Lewis is a purple belt under Clifton Buckles. He began his training in jiujitsu over five years ago under coach Rob. Jason has competed in submission grappling and BJJ tournaments. He has coached 8 seasons of youth sports in baseball and football.  He teaches the beginners and kids classes.

Austin Ketchum is a purple belt at Deep Water Jiujitsu.  He has coached wrestling including youth wrestling programs.  He teaches wresting takedown seminars and the coming soon tots class.