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Date: 3 February 2013 Time: 12:00-16:00 Location: Total Dojo, The Brunel Centre, Milton Keynes MK2 2ES Address: Cost: Free Our Q1 2013 London BJJ Women’s Open Mat will be held on Sunday 3 February 2013 and will be hosted by Hayley Carter and the good people at Total Dojo. We are pleased to invite women, [...] Read more »
Hurray for 3 years of London BJJ Women’s Open Mats! That’s right, we just closed down 3 years of women coming together to get their BJJ on. Our most recent event was hosted by the ladies of Nova Forca, Rebekka Francis and Anthea McCourtie, and sponsored by Lutadora; Lutadora provided fruit and flapjacks and shot [...] Read more »
Pregnancy and birth takes a substantial toll on your body (and mind) and the conventional wisdom is that it takes a year to fully recover from the experience. Keeping active through your pregnancy can help you to perform well during the birth as well as to maximise your recovery postpartum. In the UK, the guidance [...] Read more »
If you like fighting, you’ll love giving birth. Like a competition setting, birth is 90% mental, 5% doing what your body knows what to do, and 5% respecting the advice of the people coaching you from the sidelines. As with competition, you’ve got a ‘burn down’ to the big day, during which time you can [...] Read more »
While I enjoyed a wide range of activity during the second trimester, including BJJ training, the final stage of my pregnancy presented greater challenges to staying active; by the start of the third trimester the bump was becoming extremely unwieldy. During the final phases of the pregnancy I found my mobility went way down as [...] Read more »
Date: 18 November 2012 Time: 13:00-16:00 Location: Nova Forca Address: Fit4Less Gym Epsom High Street, 120 High Street, Epsom Surrey KT19 8EH Cost: Free Our Q4 2012 London BJJ Women’s Open Mat will be held on Sunday 18 November 2012 and will be hosted by Rebekka Francis and Anthea McCourtie and the fine folks at [...] Read more »
As a local resident, the London 2012 Olympics has offered a unique opportunity to see some great sporting action and I was delighted to attend the women’s freestyle wrestling finals last night. We were in the house for the 48kg and 63kg medal matches and ceremonies. The crowd was fantastic, with a particularly strong Japanese [...] Read more »
For the last decade, Western medicine has recognised the importance of exercise during pregnancy (where a pregnancy is low risk). While there are some restrictions and caveats, women can enjoy a wide range of activity during pregnancy, working to a level of exertion proportional to their pre-pregnancy activity levels, i.e. very active women will be [...] Read more »