We had another fun-filled Monday at The MAC at Haworth today with both morning and evening sessions seeing members flock through the door for a mixed bag of classes.
This morning we had our Mixed Stand-up class, with the group working their way through a grueling Bulgarian bag warm-up before focusing on padwork. The session ended with a few rounds of sparring.
This evening we kicked off a brand new kids class in style, working on their basic kicks and punches, as well as control from the mount position on the ground. We finished with a little grappling game based on points.
Finally was the turn of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class, with the group looking at a basic guillotine choke and how to correctly apply the sneaky yet super effective hand gun choke. Watch out for that one folks!
A big well done to everyone who made it onto the mat today including Mark, Adam, Roxanne, Ryan, Ewa, Andrea, Tony, Cat and Richard.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had another busy Wednesday morning at The MAC at Haworth today, with our Mixed Stand-up hour and BJJ class the focus of many of our students.
The first hour was dedicated to stand-up, with the group going through a grueling warm-up involving the Bulgarian bags before turning their attention to padwork. The session ended with a few rounds of stand-up sparring.
Next up was our morning grappling hour, with the students looking at a variety of guillotine chokes including the new hand-gun choke which, if applied properly, changes everything. The session ended with a nice roll.
A big well done to everyone who attended including Roxanne, Mark, Richard, Adam, David, Bartosz and Alex. Well done to Adam and Roxanne as well who also had privates at the centre.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had another packed evening of classes at The MAC at Haworth earlier today, with Kids MMA, Mixed Stand-up and Adults MMA classes the focus.
We had our next round of grading’s for our older children with the group split between going for their standard white-yellow belt and their junior yellow belts. The group on the whole was very focused with everyone involved advancing on their journey. Personally I was super impressed by everyone’s performance.
The mixed stand-up class were looking at slipping and rolling punches tonight, but not as you might originally think. Instead we were looking to keep our head movement going as we approached our opponent before getting our offence going.
Last but not least was the Adults MMA class, with the group tonight looking at standard arm-locks from the guard, how you might turn it into a triangle and how, if your opponent was to stack you, you might turn it into a belly-down arm-lock.
A big well done to everyone who attended the centre including Michael, Mark, Richard, Georgina, Roxanne, Kira, Graham, Matt, Chris and Peter.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had another fun-filled Monday at The MAC at Haworth today with our usual morning and evening sessions taking the floor, with striking the focus earlier in the day before moving on to grappling later on.
We kicked off our Mixed Stand-up class with a Bulgarian bag warm-up, four sets of ten, before moving on to a number of rounds of pad work. The session the moved on to some light sparring for the final twenty minutes, giving our members a chance to practice what they’d learnt up to that point in a controlled manner.
The evening class was Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, with the group working their way through “The Neil Knot” from the shoulder pin guard system, just like Sunday’s group had the day before. From the shoulder pin we also explored a few other submission options available to us.
A big well done to everyone who attended including Mark, Richard, Ewa, Adam, Bartosz, Alex and Cat.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had perhaps our busiest morning yet at The MAC at Haworth as our members packed both areas of the gym for striking and grappling based classes.
We kicked it off with an hour of Bulgarian bag, padwork and sparring in our Mixed Stand-up class, giving those in attendance to practice their punches, kicks, knees and the occasional elbow.
We moved on the next hour to the grappling side of the class, with the group looking at the kimura arm-lock from both the full-guard and z-half guard positions. The session ended with a few rounds of rolling.
A big well done to everyone who attended including Mark, Adam, Ewa, Roxanne, Richard, Bartosz and Alex.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had a packed house tonight at The MAC at Haworth for our three classes, with pretty much full houses across the board for the Kids MMA, Mixed Stand-up and Adults MMA sessions.
The kids were today getting ready for next weeks grading, with one group looking at the basics and another more advanced when it comes to the striking and grappling side of things.
We moved on to the stand-up class, with our group of adults looking at a little combination from the Thai clinch, before putting it in the mix on the pads. The session ended with a number of sparring rounds.
Finally we had our very popular Adults MMA class, with the group this time looking at three advanced ways of using the elbow escape to free ourselves from the mount position. The session also included stand-up and grappling sparring.
A big well done to everyone who attended including Chris, Cat, Scott, Mark, Georgina, Roxanne, Michael, David, Chris, Matt and Ben.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had another busy Monday morning at The MAC at Haworth today, with our striking and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu privates taking the floor.
The morning mixed stand-up class entailed a number of rounds on the pads before getting stuck into twenty minutes of sparring. Either side of that was sandwiched Jiu-Jitsu privates, with Adam and Ewa continuing to build upon their knowledge.
A big well done to everyone involved including Roxanne, Mark, Adam, Ewa, Richard and Bartosz.
See you next time on the mat…
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We had another action packed evening this Tuesday night at The MAC at Haworth with Kids MMA, Mixed Stand-up and Adults MMA taking the lead.
We started off with the little ones, with the group starting to work towards next months gradings which will including basic striking and grappling for those testing for the first time, and more advanced techniques for those who have done it before.
We moved onto the striking class next, with those who attended specifically looking at how to use their jab a little more diversely, before blasting through a few rounds on the pads. The class ended with a little stand-up sparring.
Lastly was the turn of the MMA class and after six rounds of padwork we looked at how to pass half-guard in two very different ways, from our knees and sitting. The session ended with a few rounds of Jiu-Jitsu rolling.
A big well done to everyone who attended including Mark, Richard, Cat, Kira, Georgina, Michael, Chris, Matt, Graham, Ben and Chris.
See you next time on the mats…
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We had another jam packed night of classes at The MAC at Haworth tonight, as our members came flocking through the doors to take part in the Kids MMA, Mixed Stand-up and Adults MMA classes.
First up was the little ones, with the group continuing to show great promise as they worked through basic and advanced striking, before moving on to resisting an assailant trying to push or pull us. We then moved on to takedowns against an aggressive opponent before finishing with a little rolling (Jiu-Jitsu sparring).
We then moved on to our Mixed Stand-up class which this week focused on using the front teep kick to the leg and the body to maintain distance, as well as making the front leg light to easily block kicks coming low. We then moved onto the usual Thai clinch sparring, padwork and stand-up sparring.
Finally we ended the night with our Adults MMA class, blasting through the warm-up and padwork before looking at how to combine our attacks from the back in order to confuse and catch our opponent. The session ended with a number of rounds of rolling.
A big well done to everyone who turned up including Mark, Richard, Scott, David, Georgina, Rachael, Kira, Cat, Chris, Graham, Matt, Chris and Ben.
See you next time on the mats…
The MAC at Haworth was back with a bang tonight for our first set of classes in 2017, with members old and new coming flocking through the door in their droves.
First up with had our Kids MMA class, with the group working on their basic striking and mount controls, as well as their focus and competitive grappling.
Next was the turn of the Mixed Stand-up class, with the adults shadow boxing for the first time in the warm up before progressing to different types of jabs and knees from the clinch. The session ended with pad-work
Finally we had our Adults MMA class, with the group working an arm-bar style warm-up before moving onto the pads. We then focused on half-butterfly sweeps from the guard before moving on to a little rolling (Jiu-Jitsu sparring).
Well done to everyone who attended including Ricky, Richard, Mark, Teigan, Kira, Cat, Graham, Chris, Owen, Ben and Chris.
See you next time on the mats…
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