Happy birthday Checkmat Wimbledon!

Checkmat Wimbledon was three years old yesterday :) 

 

My first class had just four people and am proud to say that two of these guys are still with me now and have been with me since day one, sharing the journey Ron Roy and Farhaz Mussa. My old student from Bolton Nick Briely turned up to support the session and my good friend Nayden Naydenov terrorised everyone at the gym, before he had to relocate for work.

 

The club now has 25 members, not huge for London clubs, but we are slowly getting there and I want to thank all my students for all their loyalty and dedication to training, for without these guys, the club would cease to exist. 

 

Thanks to Dickie Wilkinson and Stephen Dixon for all their help and support at Holistic Fitness, Luiz Manxinha Ribeiro for all his help and mentoring over the years, Neto Nunes and Marcelo Mineiro Bonani for all their help and coming over to teach classes, all my brothers and sisters at LFF for all the great training, Chico Mendes for his awesome seminar at my gym, Colin Nwadike and the Croydon Massif for supporting the club and last but no means least, my long suffering partner and BJJ widow Emma Brown for all her support and more importantly, helping me get my socks on in the morning and helping me out of bed and listening to me moan and whine when class numbers are low :) :)