Memberships

Hey Guys a new grappling year is starting, that means memberships are due ( gotta pay the rent)lol.

Hope we have a good turnout and looking forward to seeing everyone in the new year.

Here's a clip of Gokor Chivichyan, Gokor is judo Gene Lebells top student in catch/judo, he was also a sambo and judo champion in the former soviet republic of Armenia where he was born. Gokor is the trainer of all the Armenian boys like Karo, Manny,Sako and Roman. Amazing skill. My coach Ron also had the pleasure of training with him in California.
I also included a clip of a seven yr old wrestling just to remind us how old and slow we are.

Class schedule

This Wed mma class will be cancelled, Mike and Brandon are going to Winnipeg to fight. I will be there on Tues and Thurs and Ryan on Mon

Thanks

Class times

This Mondays bjj class is cancelled, Ryan is in Korea.
Tues night no-gi will resume on Nov 29th.

For those new to the gym here is the schedule

Mon night Brazilian jiujitsu (you must have a gi(uniform) for this class)
Tues no-gi grappling (resumes Nov 29th)
Wed mma (this class will involve striking and sparring drills)
Thurs gi and no-gi grappling

All classes start at 7pm.

No gi seminar

Looks like we are going to be hosting Mike Martelle from Kingston for a sub grappling seminar sometime in November.
Mike is the owner of Grizzly gym and is a 5th degree black belt in submission arts wrestling japan.Mike won the world championship in 2007 and is also a bjj brown belt under PRIDE legend Enson Inoue.
Hopefully we will have a good turnout and support the gym. Here's a couple of clips of Mike and Enson

Fall Schedule

Hey Guys, fall time has arrived. Time to start training again. There are some new changes this fall.
We will be having twelve weeks courses for students,
the first running from Sept 19th to Dec 19th. The cost will be $159 plus tax. You can take as many classes as you want.Please register on or before Sept 19th.
The schedule has changed as well.

Mon: bjj 7-830
Tues: no gi grappling 7-830
Wed: mma 7-830
Thurs: no gi 7-8
bjj 8-9
If there is enough interest i will start a sambo class Sat morning in the winter.

Open mat cancelled/Pics

Hey guys, the open mat practice this Wed is off. There still working on the floors. As promised here's a few pics from Mike's win in Winnipeg and also a pic from his blue belt exam. Congrats on both accounts.

Open mat

Hey Guys, there will be no open mat practice on Wed July the 27th dfc are putting another coat on the hardwood that week again.

Summer schedule

Hey Guys,

Summer is here so that means we'll be shutting down again for a couple of months.(back in Sept) But dont despair we will be having an open mat all summer long starting Wed July 6th from 7-830
The cost for the entire summer is just $55plus tax.

The last grappling class is Tues June 27th and the last mma class is Wed June 28th.
Thanks enjoy the summer

Catch wrestling

After watching strike force last night i thought i'd bring you guys up to speed on catch wrestling. Catch is the original submission grappling style. Victory can be attained by submission or pin. Almost every Japanese fighter can attribute his success to catch. In the early eighties Karl Gotch and Billy Robinson travelled to Japan and taught their style of catch wrestling to what would later turn out to be the founders of Pancrase, Submission arts Japan and Shooto.
Famous fighters include, Sakuraba, Josh Barnett and Neil Melanson(Randy Coutures head grappling coach) not to mention a thousand other Japanese fighter.
Here's a couple clip on the brutal style.

Blue Belts

Congratulations to the newest shoot wrestling blue belts Armando and Mike Dohan. Both are long overdue. Only two more steps to go. I'll post pics soon.

Sat Sambo

Due to lack of interest the Sat Sambo class will be cancelled until the fall.
Thanks
Mark

Pics

As promised here is a couple of pics from the submision hunt. If anyone has any more send them to me.
Working on the pics form Mike O's fight.

MMA and Submission hunt

Congrats to Mike O'neill for winning his fight in Winnipeg on the weekend. Mike won by armbar at 40 sec of round one. Big props to Brandon also for having the balls to get in the cage and slug it out. I'll posts pics when i get them.

Good luck to everyone who is competing at the submission hunt this weekend, i know you'll do us proud.

JTF-2

Ran in to a old friend the other day who is a 11yr infantry vet. This got me thinking about the Canadian military and how often they are overlooked. So i found this video about jtf-2(joint task force 2).JTF-2 is a counter terrorist unit that is among the best in the world. Most people in Canada dont even realize these guys exist or that we even hav special forces. The regular infantry dont even know who most of these guys are.
To quote Rear Admiral Bob Harward, himself a navy seal. JTF-2 is his choice over the seals themselves for covert missions.

New throw

Here is a quick clip of Viktor Tatarkin in competition, he's Oleg Taktarov's training partner. One of his favorite throws is the sleeve hip toss a few of us we're working on after class. Enjoy

Rev guillotine

I found a couple of vids of the choke we worked on Sat. They call it the ninja choke or anarchy choke, whatever its just a rev guillotine. Enjoy. For the book on combat sambo check out www.clubkozak.com

sambo stuff

Hey guys here is a vid of the throw we worked on today. Also i found a cool video of sambo vs judo in Japan. Both arts are huge in Japan, on this occasion father(judo) beat the son(sambo). Also Eugene has out a e-book of the level one req for combat sambo. I encourage everyone involved in sambo or bjj to check it out. I'll post a link to his web site. If you want to see what the book is all about ask me as i have a printed copy. http://www.clubkozak.com/

New prices

To make up for all the missed classes and problems prices will be reduced to $45plus tax($50.85)for all classes that fightcentre offers for the remainder of the season. Also membership will be due at the beginning of the month for all members to cut down on the confusion. For those joining mid month the fee will be pro rated to finish the month and will start new the following month.

Hopefully i will have a new schedule next season that will allow for 2-3 classes per week in all arts.

Gym news

Looks like we're staying put at least for now. DFC didn't get the financing they needed to start building. I know it's not ideal but at least we have the mats, the kids will be out of school in 5 weeks and it should be alot quieter.
The mma class will have to be changed to Thurs for a while, the school has other plans for Wed, in 5 weeks we can change it back if we want.

For those that are waiting for the shooto shirts they will have to wait a little longer. Sportop screwed up the print and put the fightcentre logo on them. The new shirts should be done in two weeks.

As a result i have camo shirts with the fightcentre logo on the front in gold for only $12. Let me know if anyone wants one.

thats all for now .

I'm back

Hey Guys, just got back in town last night. The trip went well Bosnia is a very beautifull country, very tired but good.
I didn't get to train with Dragan Pesic, he got called back to the army while i was travelling to his city. Oh well, there's always next time.
The city that my wife is from is very mountainous and i probably walked up the equivelent of about 500 flights of stairs while i was there. Having said that i also tried to workout while i was there, since there is no gym i did bodyweight routines.

Here is one of my last workouts while there give it a try and let me know what you think.
8 sets no rest of 10x pushup, 10x squat and 10x cruches
1min rest
20x jump squats
20x burpees
2x20 tricep bench dips (on chairs, feet elevated)
20x pushups on chairs feet elevated

superset the following no rest
100x jab cross as fast as possible
10x knees each side
100x jab cross
10x jab, cross, front kick each side

Next month i will post another conditioning routine hopefully with a video as well.

News

This Tues we had UFC fighter Jesse Bongfeldt at the gym. Jesses a really down to earth guy and everyone had a great time. Hopefully he'll visit the gym again soon.
I'll post pics when i get them.


Unfortunalty George's fight was cancelled.... his opponent hurt his knee in training and wasn't able to compete. I think he was just afraid of George.


I'll be in Bosnia from March 12 to April 1st, the club will be open for all the scheduled classes. Armando Ryan and Mike will fill in for me.

Strike Force

For those of you who missed the Strike Force show last night unfortunatly Fedor lost. Oh well, it's just a matter of time before the next generation of fighters comes along. You can only stay on top for so long.
Sergey Kharitonov put on a great showing knocking out Arlovski in the first round. Sergey is not very well known in North America but i'm sure that's going to change.Fedor and Sergey used to train together at Russian top team before Fedor left to train with Red devil. He has excellent striking and throws but, his ground game is a little weak. Allthough he went the distance with Nogeira(in Pride) in his prime and didn't get submitted.
Here's a highlight vid. Enjoy.

Latest yellow belt

Congratulations to Brandon Hrycyshyn for passing his exam for his yellow belt in the shoot wrestling Canada program.Brandon preformed well as is well on his way to the next level.

Schedule change

The mma class taught by Mike O'neill has been moved from Fri night to Wed starting at 7pm.
Hopefully with this change we will see an increase number of fighters training.