Tommy Wish, owner of Tommy's Gym, was born and raised in Southern California and at a young age began a long and respectable career in boxing and the martial arts. To list his training and instructors would make for long reading material, but one must understand that over the course of his life, Tommy's abilities have been perfected in hours of practice in the gym and years of experience on the streets.

Although it is Kenpo and Judo where Tommy got started, it is boxing that he sought out because he hungered for a more contact fighting form. He didn't start seriously training until age 20 though, when after almost a two year break and a half a dozen knife fights, he realized he had a thirst for more knowledge and so began studying the Philippine art of stick and knife fighting. He also became obsessed with how to apply his skills to the real world. He thought, "How do I take down this 6ft, 200lb man?" And he figured it out. To this day Tommy is known in the martial arts community as the man who can teach you how to put your martial arts skills to practical use. People will say about him, "Don't give him an arm, because he'll keep it."

Tommy's second of two breaks in training in his life came in 1998 when, like many people, he found himself working too much in the corporate world. But in 1990 he realized he needed to get back to his roots and so he got focused on what he knew he wanted to be all along, a teacher of the fighting arts. Tommy says he had so much conflict in his life growing up that he wanted to teach people how to resolve conflict in their own lives. So in 1994 Tommy opened his first boxing and martial arts school in Newport Beach. Then in 1998, Tommy opened the appropriately titled Tommy's Gym. It's a tough business owning a gym, but he loves it, loves his members, and has a passion for getting results for his clients. Mr. Wish's one wish is that you "put the weights back when you're done."