GRH Month 1 – Sprawl n Brawl MMA Class with Chris Rice

Chris Rice teaches Mixed Martial Arts in Birmingham, in a class he calls Sprawl n Brawl. MMA is a tough sport, where fighters are trained a huge range of standing techniques, ground work and submissions. Some of this can be used in street defence, but generally these guys are training so that they can get into a ring to have a few rounds against a competitor. It required high levels of fitness, and of course the ability to learn and implement new skills. In the video below, we see some of one of Chris' classes - as some of his students work up to a level ready for a fight just a few weeks weeks from the time of filming. To see the fight night the guys were preparing for, click here.

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Gymrat Heroes – Welcome to Month 1

Gymrat Heroes launches its Online Magazine. Welcome to GymratHeroes.com. In case you weren’t aware, we’ve been working tiringly hard the last few months to get together our video magazines for you.  Our first issue is now available here, exclusively! Our first issue covers the topic of Training the Body as a whole unit.  So, to work with this idea,...

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Sprawl n Brawl MMA Event – April 2010

On Friday 16th April, 'The Next Generation' Sprawl 'n' Brawl MMA fight night took place in Birmingham. With 6 fights lined up, many new combatants, it was an exciting evening for all the crowd who attended. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O9YQd2JJos The lineup for the mixed martial arts fights were:

• Saul Hall vs Bartley Burke
• Martin Rollins vs Adam Bodfish
• Jordan Heath vs Aaron Keys
• Brett Morton vs Mike Blackwood
• Danny O’Flahrety vs Rich Cosgrove
• Julian Shuttleworth vs Noman Khalid

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Chris Rice keeps winning in UK MMA

Chris Rice, based in Birmingham, certainly is doing well in the UK Mixed Martial Arts scene. He’s been wining his last few fights, one of which was a title defence, where he retained his British Middleweight title! During his last MMA fight, in Exeter, Chris fought the American fighter, John Doyle.  Although he broke his thumb in the...

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