Wednesday 19 June 2013

British Grappling Championships!


This grappling event is the brain child of Jim Mc Sherry, head of the UMA NGB; Jim's had this event under wraps for a year or two, waiting for the right time to release the event. Darren Sherlock from Salford MMA and promoter of the hugely successful Fight IKON MMA events is hosting a mega UK MMA Expo in Manchester in July.  Held over a weekend in July, the Expo aims to showcase the best of UK MMA in its many guises, with UK MMA stars on hand all weekend, seminars, an MMA event and the British Grappling event will be held on the Sunday.
 
Registration is open now, catering for beginners, intermediate and advanced brackets at www.ukmmaexpo.co.uk so get online and register for what promises to be a great event and a brilliant weekend of MMA action all round!

Friday 7 June 2013

Braulio's 2013 Mundials knee bar!!

Check out this cool video from Budovideos, as Braulio Estima shows the match winning knee bar he pulled off at the 2013 Mundials against Sergio Machado.

 

Thursday 6 June 2013

New belts for Combat Base UK!

At the end of the Training Day at the weekend, a number of well deserved promotions were made by Darren and Helen Currie.  Rich Cadden and Josh Moorby were promoted to blue belt, Tony Riley was awarded purple belt on behalf of James Nardone and Danny Mitchell was awarded his black belt off a very emotional Darren.
Darren, Tony, Rich, Danny, Josh and Helen
Huge congrats all round to all the guys!!

Wednesday 5 June 2013

British Open HL Reel!

As always, a slick HL reel from Dan Lewis from Eat Films of the 2013 British Open BJJ event.  Enjoy!

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Combat Base Training Day - The Movie!

Massive thanks to Darren Currie for making this awesome movie clip of the recent Training Day session, held on June 2nd at VS Gm in Rotherham.  Saved me a job of writing about the day, which was awesome as always.  Great training, tuition and bags of fun to boot!