At the threshold of the door to Mat Life Training Center in Jonesville, a tan mat greets entering members with the phrase, “Welcome to our home, I mean gym, I mean office.”
For husband-and-wife owners Jason and Kim-Anne Dodd, the 5,000-square-foot martial arts “dojo,” or gym, at 404 SW 140th Terr., Ste. 30, has been all three of those things for the nearly 20 years they’ve owned the place.
While Jason, a third-degree blackbelt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and former MMA fighter, and Kim-Anne, a personal trainer, nutritionist and purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, have seemingly perfect resumes for running a gym, neither of them saw themselves in this position years before it fell into their laps…