Last night's class

A quiet session to end the year, but plenty of fun, lots of rolling and an early finish for a quick end of year pint in the local Spoons, so can't complain.

It's been a great year for the club and for Fight Sports London, it's been an action packed 2019, lots of competition success, seminars at the club and LFF, teaching at seminars, my first comp at black belt, Cyborg's Summer camp, visiting guests, black belt classes with Sharpey, four new blue belts and much more.

Going into 2020 with a very positive frame of mind, competitions to start preparing for on our first class of the year on the 6th January, so looking forward to competition training for our first class of the new year.

Huge thanks to Luiz for all his support and the support from the other Fight Sports London clubs throughout the year, it's an honour and privilege to be a part of such a great group of clubs.

Happy New Year to you all, see you on the mats throughout 2020 :)

Oooosss

Last class of 2019 tonight...

Looking forward to the last class of the year at Wimbledon BJJ tonight, starting at the earlier time of 730pm; if your BJJ club is closed and you're near to Wimbledon, then you'll be most welcome to come down and join in the class :)

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all my students, training partners, striking and grappling friends all around the world a very Merry Christmas!

Last night's class

Last night was our last class before Christmas and I was thinking I'd be happy with six people on the mats, what with many of my students away for the holidays and then twelve people turn up to train!

Really pleased with the numbers, we had a great session and finished early so we could head down to the local Spoons for a quick festive drink with the Monkeys.

So, a Merry Christmas to all my Monkeys, the Fight Sports London crew, the Fight Sports worldwide family and to all my grappling and striking friends around the world.  

Have a great day, eat and drink well and will see my guys on the 30th, so we can start burning off all the extra calories :)

Oooosss

Wednesday class with the Monkeys

Great session last Wednesday with the Monkeys, decent numbers as well considering a lot of my students are back in their home countries for the Christmas period.  Only two more sessions at the club before the New Year so ample time to twist up some more festive fools...

Monday night with the Monkeys

Had a great session last night with the Monkeys, very surprised at having double figures, as a large portion of my students go to their home countries for the Christmas break, but I ain't complaining :)

Wednesday night at Wimbledon BJJ

Very impressed at the turn out last night, as a large number of my students start returning  to their home countries this week for their Christmas break with family; that said we had a great class, went over a few key points Gary and I made on the Monday night PSP session and covered four key throws that will be in our syllabus, all of which I've used in live situations over the years.

We're only closed on Christmas Day, so a few more sessions to get some festive twisting up  done :)

Lunchtime at London Fight Factory

Gary Hilton rounded off his whirlwind visit this lunchtime with a BJJ session over at London Fight Factory with Sharpey at the helm...a killer warm up, some cool drills and a good few rolls before heading off early to catch his ride home...a great way to spend a Tuesday lunchtime and I look forward to seeing Gary again in the New Year.

Precision Self Protection taster class at Wimbledon BJJ...

Both myself and Gary Hilton rolled out our first Precision Self Protection taster class to my students at Wimbledon BJJ last night...after a through warm, I covered a few pummelling drills and then Gary showed some Combatives striking padwork.

Gary started off showing the correct way to handle the pads and how to feed the pads to the striker and covered a number of drills including random strike drill, continuous attack drill and a cover, crash counter drill.

I showed a defence against an over hand right, adding strikes and a quarter nelson takedown and finished them off a couple of pressure drills for the last ten minutes of the class.

This was the first time my students had done the drills and both myself and Gary were very impressed with how they performed and we both received some very positive feedback from the students.

We are now working hard on completing our syllabus and will be running our first seminar in the New Year, more details to follow...

Saturday class

This was the last Saturday class of 2019 for the Monkeys, which was stuffed fatter than a Christmas turkey, with techniques galore for everyone to play around with, then we headed off for a little Christmas drink or three at the local Spoons, with plenty of tall tales, cheap beer and great food.

Looking forward to class tomorrow, with a very special guest coming down....

Fight Sports London - the full line up

Was great to catch up today with all the coaches that make up Fight Sports London at LFF, reflecting on a very successful year and discussing making 2020 an even more successful year.

Lots of hard work from everyone this year and all are focussed on the new year, lots of great things to come throughout the year.