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This was the day that was today, and it was pretty much the way everyday has been for the last 3 weeks or so. Just change the names of the exercises and switch some of the sessions around. Session 1: Muay Thai pads with The Paddy 1rd boxing, 1 rd kicking, 3 more rounds of … Continue reading
It’s January and I’m busy. I’m busy training, working and training, in that order. I’m also busy at home looking after my son Smiley who hasn’t been well for the last few weeks. So I’m afraid the blog has been one of the items to suffer from neglect. Here’s a substantive post to make up … Continue reading
One of the greatest things about being a coach is that I get to pick who we get to come to the gym. Rafael Mendes is just 21 and yet he’s achieved more in jiu jitsu than most top players will in their whole career. It;s great that he’s coming to our gym. Of course it … Continue reading
1. The many BJJ tournaments- starting on January 10th and going right through until May there will be at least one tournament per month. We’ve never had it so good. 2. Rafael Mendes and Guilherme Mendes giving two seminars on Feb 3rd and 4th- The world’s most exciting grappler right now and his fellow black belt brother … Continue reading
It seems that this is the time of year for reviews, retrospectives and the like, and this blog is no different. So ladies and gents, kind readers of the blog, I give you retrospecticus- the IPMMA review of the year. Now if I were to go into every tournament, event, fight and training session, this blog … Continue reading
Myself and Finlandia both lost the bet last night. I know it seems impossible that in a two horse race both horses can lose, but we managed it. In a nutshell, in case you’re not familiar with the situation, here’s what happened. Three weeks ago, we all had our skinfolds done. Stephen was 2 weeks … Continue reading
There’s been a lack of posting here, and for that I’d like to formally apologise to my reader. Sorry Ma, I’ll do better in 2010. I’ve taken a bit of a week off since the fight show went off. I haven’t done a whole heap of work, I’ve just trained and coached a bit as … Continue reading
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Thanks to all of the competitors, coaches and supporters who came along to the tournament on Saturday. The event was fun to put on, relatively stress free to organise and I think everyone enjoyed the day. We are doing it again on march 27th 2010. I hope everyone can make it. Particular thanks go to … Continue reading
It ain’t easy. Yesterday I ran another successful Submission Tournament. I think it went pretty well but as always I’m open to suggestions as to how to make it better. Some of the more successful moves we made this time were having the finals of each division run later, moving the 3rd ring out into … Continue reading
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