my club large group sparring vid

[golden arhat]

http://video.google.com/url?docid=-243204182653208443&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=mma+sparring+manchester&vidurl=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D-243204182653208443%26q%3Dmma%2Bsparring%2Bmanchest er%26hl%3Den&usg=AL29H20rf690oa43iYSJByQDyiyEpwsDFw

[laugarkuen]

Has your club got a website you can point me at?

If not then what is the address and when do you train?

Thanks,

Michael

[golden arhat]

we dont have a website
i personally train on saturdays at 5.30 (usually we turn up to the shop 4-5ish and discuss stuff first then go upstairs to train)
sundays we do work out (usually we do the ten excersises or the killer circuit)12.30 till 2

the club is called manchester ground'n'pound MMA

the guy who teaches mainly is called danny 07840440445
and say that fred gave you the number because you were interested in training

hope to see you there

[golden arhat]

oh and its in manchester

12 newton street
van dang martial arts (there are 2 one is the shop and the other is where all the different clubs train including us)

[Meat Shake]

Hehehehe...
Pretty funny stuff.

[Mr Punch]

But it is constructive:

That looked good as a bit of an eye opener and it looked a lot of fun! :D

Couple of points:

1) Too little striking back!

2) Keeping your head down and covering is a good idea, but means you can't look for an out...

3) And if your bros were coming in with kicks, or yep, just one of them with simple takedown attempts or sweeps (believe me, with mob-handed attacks there's always at least one who'll just go for kicking your legs in) that kind of blind covering and low bent-over position will literally get your head kicked in.

4) Some kind of guard where you can still keep your eye out would be more useful and a lot more ducking and weaving training.

Just a couple of ideas from real-life experience and lots of these kind of kwoon/dojo/gym simulations.

[rogue]

Those are fun. We had a guy who was very creative with the calls. Things like you, protect him, from those 4 guys. He'd also start 1 on 1 and then start adding people to the mix. Also a great cardio workout.

[neilhytholt]

Okay, the new defense against punching is to stick your head down and your hands over your head?

That's what they're teaching in MMA class these days?

[Flying-Monkey]

That was kind of ridiculous. What was the point?

[Mr Punch]

Well guys, I was trying to be constructive: yeah, it was pretty ****, but is that the best advice you've got? :D

[neilhytholt]

Honestly, I don't know what to say. I'd talk about how my old sifu used to do it, but I tried that before on another forum but based on their feedback they didn't believe it and they gave a lot of flak. So ... whatever.

[SanHeChuan]

Since in that situation any real defense would involve seriously hurting people until you were down to a manageable number like 0, These exercises usually consist of moving out of the way, trying to line your opponents up, or bottle necking them in a enclosed space, and running the f@ck away.

Doing nothing to try to defend yourself is not good training.

[rogue]

Were they practicing self defense or just horsing around? To me it looked like a bit of rough housing just for fun.

Fred, What's going on in the video?

[Fu-Pow]

Seems kind of pointless because you're not really working on any technique. What is the end goal? To get away? To take down your opponents?

With that many attackers it seems like it would be to get away.

BTW, I've been in a brawl where I had 3 guys jump on me at once (after I'd been smacked upside the head with a beer bottle!). The natural strategy is to duck and cover and most of the time it works. However, you've got to get out of the situation pretty fast or someone will take you to the ground and that's definitely where you don't want to be.

Fortunately, in my case the bouncers stepped in and broke it up.

FP

[laugarkuen]

to me it just looked like having a laugh and a good work out

[laugarkuen]

Oh and thanks for the reply GA. I know where van dangs is. When my wife gets a new pa I might pop in to say hi.

[golden arhat]

Were they practicing self defense or just horsing around? To me it looked like a bit of rough housing just for fun.

Fred, What's going on in the video?

well it was just a bit of fun
but we have what we call a royal rumble
where everyone against everyone (as u would have seen if the vid went onm for any longer)
in a royal rumble we have just boxing and trains us for melee fighting

alot of what they did there was just training to keep your guard up

it wasnt the best video ever as we werent being totally serious
but i'll try and get some better ones up

we have several prize fighters training there
lol one time cro cop (croatian pride figthter) came and trained with us

watch this space

[golden arhat]

thankyou

im grateful

if know one else posts on this now i'm gonna be well embarrased

[rogue]

Don't be. Do you have any videos of the actual class?

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

looks like a ****in mosh pit.

props!

[golden arhat]

Don't be. Do you have any videos of the actual class?

i can get them

thanx