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Today, I hosted a Women’s Open Mat for female BJJ players; Coach kindly offered Dartford BJJ free for our use. We had a great time, and I’m hopeful other female players will organise similar events at their clubs. Younger and older, more and less experienced women came together for an informal day’s training, with one [...] Read more »
Attended the second of this year’s quarterly BJJ seminars with Marc Walder at Dartford BJJ. Great atmosphere, as ever, with a mat-full of people buzzing and ready to train. In deference to the warm weather, Marc taught a no gi seminar – not a strong area for me (I don’t know what to do with [...] Read more »
Following on from the recent Women’s BJJ Seminar, Dartford BJJ is hosting a Women’s Open Mat session: Date: 12 July 2009 Time: 12:00 – 15:00 Location: Dartford BJJ Address: West Hill House, 62 West Hill, Dartford, Kent DA1 2EU map Cost: Free All are welcome for an informal afternoon of rolling with like-minded BJJ-women. The [...] Read more »
These beautiful photos are used by permission of (C) James Oluoch-Olunya / www.combat-bjj.com and were taken of the Carmen Janke seminar at Mill Hill BJJ Read more »
On Sunday I attended the first women’s only BJJ seminar in Britain at the Roger Gracie Academy (Mill Hill). The seminar was organised by Pippa Granger and led by brown belt Carmen Janke. It was a fantastic day of training and rolling with 20 tough chicas. The seminar ran for several hours on Sunday afternoon [...] Read more »
Today I was invited to a women’s only BJJ seminar with female brown belt Carmen Janke. The seminar is being organised by Pippa Granger (Roger Gracie blue belt at Mill Hill BJJ). Details are as follows: Date: 10 May 2009 Time: 12:00 – 15:00 Location: Mill Hill Ju-Jitsu Club, Sea Cadet Hall Street: Daws Lane, [...] Read more »
The gorgeous and talented Miss Kat Neville has recently posed the tantalising question, ‘What do you want for 99% off?’ She’s asked this in the form of a good old fashioned competition sponsored by BView, where folk submit entries on why on Earth they deserve 99% off anything up to a total value of £500. [...] Read more »
I started training for the Essex Open last week, thinking that my knee was much further along recovering from an MCL injury sustained in December. In addition to the piece of soap my partner stashed in one of the grapes included in the salad I’d made for lunch, I had a nasty April Fool’s when [...] Read more »