A few of the guys competed at the NSW No Gi BJJ competition on the weekend. Well done to Moey Chami, David Livingstone, Astein Grant (2nd Place) and Mark Christie (2nd Place) who competed on Saturday! Astein winning this match with a nice armbar finish. Dave taking control with his wrestling.
Four of the boys fought at CFC 16 just gone by with some great results. Chris Patterson started his MMA career with a win showing some great striking skills. Chris displayed a series of punches, kicks and knees, as well as an huge elbow which sent his opponent to the mat where Chris was able
Last night the gym had the pleasure of welcoming Conan Silveira from American Top Team who is here in Australia with Hector Lombard who will be fighting at CFC 16 this Friday. Conan took the usual 7pm BJJ class and throw in some extra MMA tips as well. The class went over a few techniques
Both Steven Semrany and Charlie Sukkar fought on the weekend at TUFFA 9 up at Niagara Park and both were victorious in their fights. Charlie got the fight to the ground and finished his fight in the 1st round via TKO ref stoppage. Steven on the other hand was in a full 3 round war
In a leadup to UFC 127 here in Australia, Fight Magazine just published an article about the top MMA prospects in Australia. Our very own Kian “Karnage” Pham has made the list in the flyweight division! They have not officially released the global rankings for Flyweight, but they currently have him listed as #11 in
Quite a number of people from the gym participated in the Warrior Dash challenge on Saturday which was the first of its kind in Australia. Unfortunately everyone who did participate from the gym had a lot of different start times. Next year we’ll have to make sure we all are racing at the same time
The 2011 timetable has been loaded on the timetable page. The main changes are that Thursday night’s BJJ class is not an MMA class, and that BJJ class has been moved to Wednesday night in place of wrestling.
This is the new Lion’s Den Academy website. The main things are up, however we still have to add a bit of content on some of the pages, but we wanted to get something up for the new year. It hasn’t been fully finalised yet, but we thought we’d launch what we’ve got now to