ferridkheder

Born in 1975 in France, my father is Tunisian and my mother is Spanish. I spent a great part of my childhood in a small city in the south of France. When I was 4, I discovered martial arts and got fastly interested on judo...I had practiced it for 25 years and had represented the French team and the Tunisian team at an international level...Flushed with success of some titles and 7th during the Olympics Games in Sydney, my judoka carrier had been a great adventure in my life... From now, a page of my life is turned...it's with great pleasure and with many ambitions that I am involved in a professional career in MMA...I have discovered the world of fighting in 2005( Brazilian jujitsu, Thai boxing, grappling, wrestling, and so on...) .Firstly with Jean Marie Merchet and Jucao in France and with his entire team of "Haute Tension" then in New Caledonia with Jean Luc Hoang ( Ex professional Thai boxing), in Australia with Hector Lombard and Luke Pezutti and with the entire team of the Lion s Den (Sydney)...after these 2 years, I have decided to take some measures in order to get on higher level that's why I have moved to USA .I have integrated Team Quest (CA) in august 2007 (Dan Henderson's gym) and Kobra Kai (CA) in july 2008 (Joe Stevenson's gym).In 2009 i have signed a contract with MMAagents  ,a management company who takes care of my career ( http://www.mmaagents.com/) and i moved to Las Vegas where i train at Tapout training center with Shawn Tompkins.

13 NATIONAL TITLES:

 1990 French champion FSGT  U16

 1992 French champion FSGT  U18

 1994 French champion FFJDA U21

 1995 French champion FFJDA IND and by Team U21(US ORLEANS)

 1994,1995,1996,1998,1999, French champion by team 1DIV  (US ORLEANS)

 1998 French champion FNSU

 2002-2003 Tunisian champion

2 CONTINENTAL TITLES :

 1995 European champion U21

 1996 European champion by team (FRANCE)

 8 CONTINENTAL MEDALS:

 1995 1996 Bronze medal in the European Cup by club (US ORLEANS)

 2000 Bronze medal in the European championship IND

 2001-2002 Bronze medal in the African championship

 2001-2002-2004 Silver medal in the African championship by team (TUNISIA)

WORLD MEDAL:

 1998 Bronze medal in the world championship FISU

TOURNAMENTS:

                                     GOLD

 1991 Spain  FSGT U18

 1993 1994 Aix en Pce (FRA)

 1995 Poland U21

 1996 Paris Kyoto (FRA)

 1997 1998 Marseille (FRA)

 1998 Netherland

 1999 2000 2001 Monaco

 2001 Vintimillia by team (TUNISIA)

 2001 New York Open

 2002 2003 Tunisia

 2005 Winchester (USA)

                                                       SILVER

 1996 Marseille (FRA)

 1998 Monaco

 2004 New York Open

                                        BRONZE

 1995  Tournoi de France

  1998 Austria

  1999 Hungaria

  2003 Germany

  2004 Portugal

  SUPER WORLD CUP :

 PARIS  BERCY:  

                       1996-2001 SEMI FINALIST

                       1999 WINNER

                       2000 WINNER

                       2002-2003 BRONZE

 MOSCOW      : 

                         2002 BRONZE

 GERMANY WORLD MASTER:

                        2000-2002 WINNER

 OLYMPIC GAMES :

                         2000 7th

 HEAD TO HEAD WITH THE BESTS :

Makarov  (World champion)1-1

Camilo     (world champion)1-0

Braun       (world champion)2-1

Maddaloni (olympic champion)1-2

Biloded     ( 2 times european champion)5-0

Uematsu   (european champion)1-0

Anshwanden (2 times european champion)1-1

 Revazachvili (european champion)1-1

Almeida  (european champion)1-2

Kanamaru 1-0

Takamatsu 2-1

 Gagliano (olympic medalist)2-1

 Zelezni 2-2 (olympic medalist)

 Pereira 1-1

 Lombard 1-0

 Neto 2-0 (european champion) 

1998 LICENCE OF SPORT (UNIVERSITY PARIS X)

1999 MASTER OF SPORT (UNIVERSITY PARIS X)

1996 BLACK BELT JUDO 3rd Degrees (France)

 2005 CERTIFICATE OF JUDO TEACHER  (France)

 2007 CERTIFICATE OF PANCRASE TEACHER (France)

 2007 CERTIFICATE 2 in Security Operations (Australia)

 2009 BROWN BELT BJJ under Marcelo Lapela Mafra (check mat academy USA)

Pro Judoka 1993-2002 FFJDA and US ORLEANS (FRANCE)

Pro Judoka 2002-2004 FTJDA

Judo Instructor since 1991 (France,New Caledonia,Usa)

Pancrase instructor since 2005 (France,New Caledonia,USA)

Sport teacher and Personal trainer since 1996 (France,New Caledonia,USA)

Fighter pro since 2006 :  AJCD (New Caledonia) 2006

                                     Lion s Den (Sydney Australia) 2007

                                     TEAM QUEST (CA) 2007-2008

                                      Cobra Kai (CA)  2008

                                      Xtreme Couture,Wand Gym  and Drysdale Gym 2009

                                      Tapout Training Center (Las Vegas) since sept 2009