10th Planet Downtown LV Coaches
Casey Halstead
Casey Halstead is a professional Mixed Martial Arts trainer with over eight years of coaching experience. Originally a mixed martial artist with a boxing foundation, Casey took his Eddie Bravo Jiu Jitsu Black Belt, striking, and wrestling, skills onto the teaching platform. He is the owner and head coach of 10th Planet Las Vegas, 10th Planet Costa Mesa, 10th Planet Buena Park, and 10th Planet Orange, while still training under 7th Degree Red and Black Belt Jean Jacques Machado and 10th Planet’s founder Eddie Bravo. In addition to the series of the four 10th Planets, he was the head Jiu Jitsu instructor at Mark Munoz’s Reign Training Center. Casey actively works with some of the most experienced and well respected MMA fighters in the world. He is seen coaching and working alongside Ultimate Fighter season 13 Winner Tony Ferguson, UFC veteran Mark Munoz, Cain Carrizosa, Diego Rivas, Ashlee Evans-Smith, Carla Esparza and Anthony Birchak.
Casey was also a guest instructor on The Ultimate Fighter Latin America for team Werdum, the interim UFC heavyweight champion of the world, and again for team Gastelum, the number 10 ranked welterweight UFC fighter. Along with his close affiliation with the UFC, Bellator, and several other organizations, Casey is the co-founder of the popular Jiu Jitsu clothing brand “Newaza Apparel,” a unique, creative line of colorful attire that is seen all around the world. Casey is also the Event Coordinator and Match Maker for Eddie Bravo Invitational, in this role Casey gets to work closely with Eddie Bravo and Victor Davila as well as some of the greatest talent in Jiu Jitsu.
Casey Halstead takes pride in developing homegrown MMA talents from day one, as he works closely with everyone, from students with no Martial Arts experience to athletes at the peak of their careers. On top of being a master of his craft, Casey’s style of pushing the limits has built a strong reputation, which has been proven repeatedly, bringing fighters from all around the globe to train under him for their fight camps. He lives a life devoted to inspiring and aspiring athletes to live a healthy mental and physical lifestyle and pursue higher personal and professional goals in their lives.
Bendy Casimir
Bendy Casimir was born in Paris, France in 1980. He began training in Jiu-Jitsu 1998. After four years of training in a gi he earned his purple belt, and chose to pursue his ultimate goal of becoming a professional MMA fighter. He continued his training in grappling and wrestling. During this time he won several notable titles; He was European and French National Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and won several grappling tournaments in France in his own weight class as well as absolute.
Bendy won the French title in Pancrase as an amateur and took his first professional fight in 2001. Living in a country where Mixed Martial Arts is illegal, Bendy took every opportunity available to fight. This meant he was always fighting in foreign countries, often on very short notice. Bendy became one of the most notable European fighters at 155lbs, he fought in Russia in M-1, in Japan with Shooto Traditions, in South Africa, and all over Europe. In 2008 Bendy earned the title of European Shooto Champion and was listed in the top five lightweights in Europe. In 2009 Bendy came to train in the United States and signed with the WEC.
Bendy started training under Robert Drysdale in 2012. He earned his brown belt in August, 2014 and his black belt on the podium after winning gold at Pan Ams in March, 2017. Bendy went on to win No Gi Worlds in 2017, finishing all his opponents with his famous kneebars. In March 2018 he was invited to join the 10th Planet Las Vegas team and began teaching. He is an eternal student, humble and eager to learn from everyone. He continues to develop his “Super System” around the Kneebar, and enjoys every opportunity to share it.
