The Breen Instructor group camp at the weekend was a huge success. Lots of the guys training rated it as one of the best in many years. As usual we mixed art and function so that everyone understood how the art worked. Everything was tested in sparring so as an instructor you know how to [...]
Guys looks like it’s going to be a great weekend of training ahead. We’ve got the usual suspects coming from all over Europe. Whilst I’ve been off with a cold I should be fine for the weekend. We’re also doing a special offer for all members who wish to train. Just ask if if you’re [...]
We now seem to have full power back at SPACe and I look forwards to seeing you all this evening for hard fun training. Apologies to those who missed training on Monday or Tuesday. I’ll also be changing the grading date by a week to reflect the missed time this week. See you all later. [...]
Apologies to all of those who came for training this week and found SPACe closed due to a power cut. We only heard at the last moment so we were unable to let you know. Tuesday it was disappointing but a great opportunity for us all to go to the pub. The reason for the [...]
Congratulations to Guro David Onuma who won the European Brazilian Jiu-jitsu tournament again last week. David was also awarded his Black belt on the podium in front of all attending. This is a huge achievement not only to get your black belt but to be three times champion at this level. We’ll have pictures tomorrow [...]
Recently in the Classes we’ve been working on clinch techniques and using the same techniques throughout all of our training whether we’re doing MMA style clinch, Filipino boxing, stickfighting or knife defence. In this way you get to see the same shapes constantly and then learn them in more depth. By doing them in different [...]
Classes are back to normal now despite the snow. Don’t take any risks coming in but classes are back on and going strong. Last Thursday we had nearly a full house on what was a very nasty evening. From this week we’ll be focusing on Grading techniques with a new revised syllabus. Gradings at the [...]
A happy new year to all our members and friends logging in. It looks like it’s going to be a great year. It’s going to be the Chinese year of the tiger this year (from Febuary ) so lets get going and roar our way through the year. The training is going to be tough, [...]
A happy Christmas to all our members and friends. Many thanks for all your support this year. We wish you all, current and old members plus our old friends a wonderful Christmas and a happy and joyous new year. We’ve had a great year with lots of positive change and we hope that 2010 brings [...]
We have managed to get an earlier slot on a Monday and will be starting our programme at 6.30 from next Monday the Thirtieth. I’ll be taking this class with Carl doing his class afterwards as usual and either Gordon or Winston doing the Thai boxing at 8.30. We’ll keep this arrangement up until Christmas [...]
