Friday 15 March 2024

New School BJJ - Brixton!

 Had a very enjoyable session at New School BJJ Brixton last night, attending the evening Gi session; last year one of my students competed against one of the New School blue belts, a Patrick Gnaye and after chatting to Patrick, he invited me over to train at his club.

The session was taken by Reiss Bailey, IBJJF European Masters 2023 Gold medallist among other accolades and it was a nice change being a student again, instead of a coach; the session was very technical together with specific training and rolling and I will definitely be back for more.

Huge thanks to Reiss for the class, Patrick for the roll and all the students for making me feel welcome on the mats :)

You can follow them on IG - @newschoolbjj_brixton





Thursday 14 March 2024

No Gi session!

 Had another very enjoyable No Gi session last night at Northern Monkey HQ, going over the wrestling takedowns for BJJ from the seminar at the Snake Pit on Sunday; the takedowns are really easy to integrate into our training and I'm looking forward to seeing them in action at NAGA and Grappling Industries next month :)



Tuesday 12 March 2024

Last night's class

 Another hot and sweaty No Gi session at Northern Monkey HQ last night, went over the techniques from Sunday's seminar at the Snake Pit, lots of new tricks up our rash guards now, looking forward to seeing my students pull them off at the upcoming NAGA and Grappling Industries comps in April :)



Monday 11 March 2024

Wrestling for BJJ seminar @ the Snake Pit!

 Had a great day out yesterday at the Snake Pit, attending the first Wrestling for BJJ seminar, hosted by Brett Hawthorn and my old pal Mark Spencer.

 This was the first seminar of its kind at the Snake Pit and was well attended including 2023 Catch World Champion Finlay Marshall.

The techniques were all BJJ friendly, centering around takedowns from Brett and transitioning to groundwork with Mark; everything was very well demonstrated and explained by both coaches, with everything easy to assimilate into a No Gi BJJ session.

Which I will be doing tonight at SW19 :)

Thanks to my student Craig Lawson for travelling up from Leicester to attend the session, I look forward to more of these sessions in the future.

Also great to see Roy Wood sat in his chair, keeping an eye on proceedings and stepping in to help and sharing his knowledge with everyone and of course Andrea Wood, for arranging these seminars :)





Thursday 7 March 2024

Catch session last night!

 Had a very hot and sweaty Catch session last night at SW19, a great turn out as always, lots of fun twisting up fools and adding some Catch into our No Gi training, ready to drop a few surprises in April at NAGA and GI :)



Tuesday 5 March 2024

No Gi session last night!

 Started the month off in style with a hot and sweaty No Gi session at Northern Monkey HQ...the class covered attacking the turtle position, taking the back and finishing and some old school Catch wrestling, turning and pinning using a back hammer/half nelson combo.

Lots of rolling from everyone, getting ready for NAGA and Grappling Industries in April, so lots to work on!

The mist never lies :)



Monday 4 March 2024

Gold for George!

 Another good day at the office for young George yesterday at the Oxfordshire Open, making his brown belt debut and bagging the gold medal with a nasty footlock.

Congrats to George from myself and everyone at the club, looking forward to seeing more bling this year :)