Thursday, 12 June 2025

GOYE Podcast - OUT NOW!

 The Grapple of your Eye podcast featuring yours truly is out now, head on over to You Tube or Apple podcasts and listen to an old man try and remember the early days of his martial arts training and all things in between :)

If Carlsberg did intros... :)







Wednesday is Pyjama Day!

 Two killer classes last night in the Gi at Northern Monkey HQ, going over the under over pass with a fine tooth comb in the Beginners class and the Sao Paolo pass in the int/adv class :)




Wednesday, 11 June 2025

I'm on a Podcast!

 It's been a while but last week I was interviewed for the Grapple Of Your Eye podcast with Brett Summers :)

Should be out tomorrow, will post a link when it does :)



Wrestling class!

 Last night we had our second official wrestling class with coach Claudiu and we are up to double figures already!

This month we are concentrating on hand fighting and have covered the Russian Tie and arm drags, along with counters and lots of drilling and wrestling in both classes.

These are killer cardio workouts and I'm loving being a student again and getting pushed to my limits and beyond, helps keep me sharp at my ripe old age :)



Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Super Saturday Session!

 Had a great Saturday afternoon on the mats at Northern Monkey HQ, mixing up Gi, No Gi and MMA training, plenty of sweat and claret spilled, before going for well earned beers after class :)



No Gi Thursday!

 Killer session on Thursday night, No Gi style, took the class through the Sao Paolo guard pass and of course lots of fools well and truly twisted :)



Thursday, 5 June 2025

Birthday Gi classes last night!

 Celebrated our eleventh anniversary in style with two packed Gi classes, lots of fun, hard work and sweat from all the monkeys, myself included; managed to bag over half a dozen rounds of fool twisting myself and I'm feeling fine today, ready for the No Gi classes later tonight :)

Thanks to everyone who turned up and made it a night to remember!