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