Nikita – Group Elephant
Nikita is constantly put in challenging divisions, and is usually one of the smaller competitors in his weight class.
Nikita vs Ewan from Point Blank Submissions – Galway

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The All Ireland Junior Submission Championships are rapidly approaching, and two people who are all too aware of the situation are Andy “The Wizard” and Graeme, who although without a nickname, is rapidly becoming the most feared heel in Sparta.

Andy and Graeme underwent a terrific match up back in the Dublin, which saw The Wizard’s [...]

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Adam progressed to a well deserved yellow belt on Saturday (sorry it’s taken me so long to get to the machine dude!)

Adam came to us a few month’s ago just after the 2007 Nationals, where he saw us putting out the mats. Adam was keen, if a little naive, about Wrestling, and asked us about [...]

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On Wednesday, Gav & Joey took their Green belt tests. Here they are looking proud after their tests. Definitely got their posing game down!

Gav has been on form lately, really gaining some technical ability. Plus his work rate has gone up as well, which is better in our opinion. Hard work, and doggedness, [...]

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Congratz to Andy who took his blue belt test today with the adult Spartans.
Andy’s technical ability is worrying the Spartans, who aren’t looking forward to rolling with him when he gets stronger!

Andy was so confident of his abilities he decided to draw a picture of Dan before the start. We all thought it was a [...]

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Congrats to Ciara and Graeme who tested successfully for their green belts on Wednesday

Sorry guys, thought I’d posted this!

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Video of the Agoge clinching it up last night in training. (avi file, 2:27, 15.1MB)
We’ve switched to avi’s for our video format as they seem to play better and take up less space. For those of you on Macs, Quicktime will open and play these. For those of you on PCs, DivX is a great [...]

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Ciara
Ciara stood very upright against Cilan (Group Winner) in the opening exchange. Cilan was using a double neck tie, which we haven’t trained a defence against. Ciara’s shoot was good, but from too far out. Cilan secured the hooks and got the win.
Download here (mpg, 40 secs, 5.8MB)

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Danny
I cannot stress just how coachable Danny has become over the last few months. He shows real maturity towards learning the techniques, but also keeps the cheeky grin and sense of fun.

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This Wednesday is a chance to bring a friend to Spartan MMA to show them what you do and give them a chance to get involved in the sport you’re all excelling in.
If you, your friend, or their parents have any questions please feel free to give myself or Daniel a shout
Colm – 086 8151092
Dan [...]

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