The coaches
Two people who've done the races, taken the hits and spent years learning how to teach movement properly.
Jase Robinson
Owner and Head Coach. Certified CrossFit Trainer (CF-L3)
Jase grew up in Darlington, England and trained as a mechanical engineer. He came to the United States to learn to BASE jump, which tells you most of what you need to know about him. After 25 years of science, travel, engineering, business and adrenaline sports, he found the one sport that pulled all of it together: Ironman triathlon.
He founded Trionic Human Performance as a service center for endurance athletes, offering coaching, programming, video analysis and bike fitting. That's where the gym grew out of. His view is simple: good method and clean technique on an average athlete will usually beat raw talent with no direction, especially when things go wrong. That's what pulled him toward CrossFit.
"If you're not the best at anything, become the best at everything."
Jase's take on training, and the reason Deathproof programming covers strength, gymnastics, engines and skill all at once.
In 2015 a truck pulled out in front of his motorcycle on U.S. 31. Injuries that probably should have killed him ended up relatively minor, and he puts it down to his "combat chassis": a deadlift over 500 lb, a back squat over 400 lb and a 2:32 Fran. The idea stuck, and in February 2017 CrossFit Retaliation became Deathproof CrossFit.
The name got tested again in 2023 when a tri-axle dump truck blew a red light and hit him while he sat at a stop light. Three spinal fractures. He came back from that too.
Dree McNear
Program Director. CrossFit Level 2 Trainer. Head Coach, Rock Steady Boxing South Central Indiana
Audra McNear, Dree to everyone at the gym, earned her CrossFit Level 1 at The Ranch in Aromas, California, the place the CrossFit Games started. She got her Level 2 at the Rogue gym in Columbus, Ohio.
She can't resist a big event. She's finished the New York City Marathon, the Philadelphia Marathon and Ironman Louisville, and she's working toward running all the marathon Majors.
Rock Steady Boxing
Dree has seen up close what neurodegenerative disease does to people and the families around them. As head coach of Rock Steady Boxing South Central Indiana, she works with people living with Parkinson's and their caregivers, using fast, high intensity boxing drills to help with balance, strength and confidence.
She also runs the day to day side of the gym as director of operations.
Train with them
Every class at Deathproof is led by one of these two. If you'd rather start one on one, both coaches take personal training clients. See personal training rates or check the class schedule.