Mark Curry, of krazy nordie gward fame, will be popping out tonight to do some guest instructing.

This’d be a good one for you guys.

Here’s more MMA vids from last Tuesday:

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So, last Tuesday we’d just a full on hour of MMA Matches. Here’s a couple from then, I’ll post more tomorrow:

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Hey Guys,

Time for a new set of t-shirts for Spartan MMA.

When I asked around last week the colours you guys seemed to like most were red and/or green for the t-shirts, and black for the hoodies.

Tom suggested a slogan on the t-shirts. I can’t think of one, but it has been a while since I watched 300, so maybe there’s a cool one there for the club? If you’ve got one, tell me at training or post below to comments.

Also, if you want a t-shirt, put your name and size on the white board in the gym so I know what to order. There’ll be a discount for people who pre-order and put a small (€10) deposit on their gear. I don’t know the prices just yet, but I’d say they’ll be €15-€20 for the t-shirts and €35-€40 for the hoodies. I’ll have to clear it with my business manager though if we can do a deal on a t-shirt/hoodie package.

Here’s the first week’s matches from the Club Championships.

The Club Championships is a friendly, fun way of introducing that sense of urgency and intensity that compeitition brings, so better preparing you for comps outside of the club.

Everyone was ranked, and assigned points on the scale. Points are won/lost based on the results of three, 3-minute matches every Monday and Wednesday.

I’ll get the table up after the weekend, but it promises to be a good bit of craic.

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Hey Guys,

What I wanted to post this week is the Leaderboard, however someone put a lock up on the gate so i couldn’t get in

However, here’s some vids from Chris’ workshop with us:

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So on Wednesday, we decided to do some 2-on-1 sparring, with hilarious results…

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As I say in the video, there are three pressures you can exert on your opponent from guard:

1. The threat of a submission
2. The threat of a sweep
3. The threat of standing up

The last one - just standing up - is the least used of the three. Maybe it’s because it’s just not considered as much, but it’s a viable option. Particularly if you’re faster/stronger in the scramble.

The submission from this, which I learnt as the drop guillotine, and thanks to Andy from UCD via Australia, briefly became known as The Riley Choke. Turns out it’s more commonly known as the Peruvian Necktie.

Dude! Sorry they took so long. Some problems with conversion and other messing about. Hope you like them anyway!

Madden NFL!!!

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Big Congratulations to James, who represented NCAD and took gold in the Intervarsities last weekend.

James reckons he’s the first person to win anything sport related from NCAD, so far play to him.

Rob came third in his division, representing DBS.

Some of the IT Tallaght lads equipped themselves very well. Considering they were up against people with 2 years experience compared to their 2 months worth, they showed a heck of a lot of athletic promise (watch Rory’s fight with Mark Fairman for what I mean)

Enjoy!

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