Coach Lee Shabaka has studied various forms of martial arts since the age of fourteen including karate, kung-fu, boxing and kickboxing. During his early years of training he attended college at St. Augustine’s in Raleigh, North Carolina. There he met and trained with several amateur and professional tournament champions. It was then that he came to the conclusion that there are no superior systems, only superior fighters—a motto he uses up until this day.
What is to become know as TeamFreeForm was introduced to the top health clubs in New York City, such as New York Health and Racquet and New York Sports Club, long before boxing and kickboxing became trendy by Coach Lee from 1987 to 1993. 
From 1995 to the present Coach Lee has also taught his training methods at New York’s best known boxing gyms such as Kingsway Boxing Gym and Gleason’s Gym. Lee admits that not everyone is cut out for this system simply because some people don’t adjust well to intense training. But those that do have nothing to lose and everything to gain: for them its a winwin situation. In 1998 he developed a women’s component and by 2001 Teamfreeform prepared 3 women for the First Women’s World Boxing Championships (See Our Women’s Boxing Club) thus supplying the U.S. with 1/4 of the American Team. Team Freeform has continuously developed male and female competitors on the State, National and International level.
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