Hey, if you missed these seminars, you missed out, and I'm sorry for you. Johnny Ward and Carlos Rodriguez taught an amazing Muay Thai clinic Saturday, May 29th, which was followed by an excellent Brazilian Jiu Jitsu clinic with Michael Nunes.
Muay Thai
Just a brief reminder : All regularly scheduled classes for Saturday, May 29th are cancelled. You may have seen the signs and notices up around the gym, but just in case you missed them, Saturday we are having a Muay Thai clinic followed by a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu seminar.
KnuckleUp Fighters Competing at Coastal Combat Circuit
This Saturday 30th, KnuckleUp Fitness Outer Banks is taking its A-Team to compete dominate the Coastal Combat Circuit grappling event in Elizabeth City.
The event, the first Grappling event in Northeastern NC, takes place at the old Elizabeth City Middle School gym and promises to bring the area's big names of MMA and Grappling.
The KnuckleUp team will be coached by Jeremiah Lancaster and General Manager Morrison Butler, who will also be competing.
The entire team has been training really hard, and for some of the fighters, this is their very 1st tournament. Coaches Jeremiah and Chris Stolzman want to invite everybody to come and support our group during the fights.
The competition will be grappling only - no punches or kicks. Fighters start standing up, and win points for dominant position acquisitions, takedowns, and reversals. Matches range from 3 minutes to 6 minutes, depending on the skill class, and of course, the ultimate goal is to catch the opponents in a choke, arm lock, leg lock, or any other submission.
For this event, fighters will wear only shorts and rash guard - no special garments (GI or Kimono), which makes the matches even more similar to wrestling - only the fight doesnt stop when the opponent has its back on the mat.
Because of the tournament, our BJJ classes have been taught without the Gi. We apologize for the inconvenience that may have caused to some of our more traditional members - regular classes start again on Monday at 6pm.
Yeah - because a majority of our BJJ students are competing, as well as both of the coaches, there will be NO SATURDAY MORNING BJJ CLASS. Instead, come support our team, study their matches, and you'll get hands-on teaching!
We'll see you there!
Our new head instructor Chris Stolzman brought with him a ton of videos of his KnuckleUp Fitness' original instructor master Kazeka Muniz - and we're very proud to post them here.
The videos will be available free either here or on KnuckleUp OBX YouTube channel.
On the first video, master Kazeka shows a fundamental Brazilian Jiu Jitsu movement called the Grambi Roll:
On the second video, master Muniz demonstrates the famous Mata Leao choke (the rear naked choke):
We sincerely hope you enjoy the videos - they'll be here for everybody - members and non-members.
If you really like them, leave a comment. We always appreciate the feedback!
See you soon.
This is a quick highlight of yesterday's evening class with Head Instructor Chris Stolzman drilling everybody on open guard passes. Notice the nice "cartwheel" that Morrison Butler (white Gi, brown belt) pulls on Leo Saraceni (blue gi, blue belt).
Below you'll see the first two videos of an exclusive KnuckleUp Fitness series with Head Instructor Kazeka - these two relate jiu jitsu and self-defense in 2 escapes from the good-old Headlock:
The first video shows how to defend a headlock choke
And the second video shows how to keep from being punched in the face and defend the headlock.
We've got a ton of videos from master Kazeka coming up soon - just as we have a ton of videos of Chris Stolzman's classes coming up soon as well.
Our Outer Banks jiu jitsu class has been filling up almost every day, and we'll soon start an advanced class, according to instructor Stolzman's criteria.
Stay tuned for more videos and more news. And dont forget...
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