SPARTANS! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION!?
Paul Brady vs Ray Dowd (Kilkenny Top Pro)
Shockingly enough, Ray went to take Paul down. If you listen to the cornering, you see Paul makes work for himself by not keeping the facebar on, and gets taken down as a result. Paul does well out of guard, largely because Ray [...]

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Thursday classes are shaping up nicely into an athlete directed class – whatever you, the students, want to work on, myself and Dan will facilitate you as much as possible.
We also got some nice sparring videos yesterday. I haven’t had time to review them so feel free to add your own points to comments.
Videos are [...]

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Here’s the original piece where I took Wednesday night’s control lesson from:
http://www.aesopian.com/118/five-swords-top-game/
Aesopian.com is a wealth of information on submission wrestling. Check it out.

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Last Sunday (April 13th) Rob Freeman and Stef Cinelli stepped into the cage for the first time, and didn’t disappoint.

Rob, who took his fight at little under 3 weeks notice, was going against Dave McNamara of Limerick Pankration. Rob weighed in at 70Kg after some last minute cutting but bulked back up to nearly 80Kg [...]

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Due to increased attendance lately, and a demand for more training times from you, we’re adding a Thursday night class to our schedule.
The Thursday night class will run from 8-9 and for the first while we’re going to leave it open format until we decide what’s the best us of this time slot (Open Mat, [...]

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