No Gi Thursday!

 Two killer No Gi classes last night at Northern Monkey HQ, playing around with Vaporisers, anacondas and the awesome one hundred per cent sweep :)

Wednesday night classes

 Back in the Gi last night at Northern Monkey HQ, another quiet one, but lots of hard work from the monkeys as always :)

No Gi Tuesday!

 A quiet one last night at Northern Monkey HQ, but still lots of fun and hard work from all the monkeys :)

Medals for the lads!

 Great to have Ron and James on the mats with their very well earned medals from the weekend, lots more to come this year :)

Monday classes

 Started another week of Jiu Jitsu with the beginners and advanced classes in good attendance :)

More medals for the Northern Monkey Order!

Yet another great day at the office this weekend for the monkeys and scoundrels, with scoundrel Oli bagging a well earned gold medal in No Gi at the South Coast Submission Open on Saturday and James and Ron from Wimbledon BJJ, competing an age division lower, mixing it up with the young guns and taking a silver medal each.

More medals added to the Northern Monkey Smoothcomp account, looking forward to the next round of comps for everyone :)

Gi night at SW19!

 Had two killer Gi classes last night at Northern Monkey HQ, plus a very enjoyable session in the L'il Monkeys class; two monkeys competing at the weekend, so lots of hard work ahead this week to get them ready for action :)

EPIC medal haul for the Northern Monkey Order!

 It was an awesome day at the office yesterday for the Northern Monkey Order, with monkeys and scoundrels competing yesterday :)

A wise old monkey Craig Lawson competed at the Roll Models event and mixed it up with the young guns and came away with two well earned bronze medals and scoundrels Joe and Jack competed at the UMAC comp and came away with three golds and one silver for their efforts.

The Northern Monkey Order is on the march to world domination :)

Saturday Session!

 Kicked started a new month in fine style with a busy action packed Saturday Session at Northern Monkey HQ :)

There was Gi, No Gi and MMA sparring, lots and lots of rounds and a lot of fun too, which is the most important thing; after class came the most important part of any training regimen, that of post training rehydration and calorie ingestion at the local Spoons, which rounded off a brilliant day :)

Catch Wrestling Thursday!

 Two killer sessions of Catch Wrestling last night at Northern Monkey HQ :)

Wednesday classes

 Last night we had fun in the pyjamas at Northern Monkey HQ :)

No Gi Tuesday

 A quiet one last night but still lots of hard work from both the beginners and the advanced classes :)

Monday Madness!

 Hot off the heels of a very successful seminar on Sunday, it was back to business at SW19 with an action packed day of Jiu Jitsu; starting with the L'il Monkeys and getting well and truly twisted up by the little monkey, we had a solid thirty minutes of wrestling and rolling, great fun for sure!

The Beginners classes are growing every week and are really picking up the fundamentals quickly, these classes are a fantastic starting point for anyone wanting to start training and for regular students too, there's always something of value you can pick in these classes.

The main class comprised of two brutal shark tanks for James and Big Ron, who are competing next weekend and were put though their paces by all of us, with no complaints :)

Week by week the new gym is growing and moving in the right direction, the Northern Monkey Order expands!

FAIXA PRETA #2!!

 Hot on the heels of promoting my student Gorgeous George to black belt in January, on Sunday I had the huge honour of promoting Submission Scoundrels head coach Chris Petherwick to black belt at his club in Tidworth, in front of a packed house with five black belts in attendance (before Chris made it it six) and just shy of forty people on the day.

Chris is a lifelong martial artist like myself with black belts in other arts and wrestled under the tutelage of Roy Wood back in the day, winning the British championships along the way; Chris has a huge passion for the arts and is an active competitor and inspires his students to compete in Gi and No Gi comps and are making waves on the UK competition scene.

A very well deserved promotion indeed, massive congrats to Chris from myself and all the monkeys at Wimbledon BJJ, Dog House MMA and everyone at Submission Scoundrels; the Northern Monkey Order is three black belts strong, lots more to come :)

Northern Monkey Seminar @ Submission Scoundrels!

 I had great pleasure teaching my first seminar of the year over at Northern Monkey affiliate club Submission Scoundrels, headed by Chris Petherwick in sunny Tidworth :)

It was an awesome turn out with six black belts on the mats and ten Jiu Jitsu and Judo clubs representing on the day as well.

I delivered an Old School Jiu Jitsu seminar with a smattering of Catch Wrestling as well to add a bit of spice to the afternoon and it was a lot of fun teaching and sharing the mats with so many Jiu Jitsu enthusiasts :)

It was very humbling to have so many people turn out and spend their afternoon with my good self and massive thanks to Gorgeous George for being a great uke as always and to Ron and James for coming over to support the event and to James for being a great driver :)

The Northern Monkey Order is growing!

Thursday night - Wrasslin Night!

 Two killer Catch Wrestling classes last night at SW19 in the beginners and the advanced class, put the monkeys through their paces with wrestling drills, takedowns and stand up wrestling, hard work from everyone :)

Wednesday night - pyjama night!

 Zipping through the month of February at a rate of knots and another Gi session in the bag last night, with two killer sessions in the Beginners and Advanced classes :)

Gold for George!

 HUGE congrats to new minted black belt George Brown, who competed at the Surrey Open at the weekend and bagged his first old medal :)

Many more to follow I'm sure :)

No Gi Tuesday!

Mixing it up with the No Gi classes last night at Northern Monkey HQ, a solid Beginners class as always and lots of fun in the Advanced class, dropping in a few takedowns and plenty of rolling :)

Monday night classes

 Kick started another week off in style with the Beginners and Advanced classes last night, got three monkeys set to compete in a couple of weeks, so plenty of shark tanks and lots of rolling for the lads :)

No Gi Mayhem!

 Two killer No Gi classes last night starting with the Beginners, which are going very well, really picking up the  of Jiu Jitsu; finished with the Advanced class and went through killer wrestler's warm up and a brutal shark tank for two of the monkeys who are due to compete in a few weeks :)