Straight Blast Gym relocating....

john kavanagh

SBG is relocating to

111 Longmile Road Centre
Longmile Road
Dublin 12

On Monday, 31st of March, Straight Blast Gym Ireland opens in its new location conveniently located 5 minutes walk from the Kylemore Luas stop stop and 1 minutes walk from the 151, 18, 210, 56a bus stop.

Luas Map

Location

There will be a 2000sq ft matted training area, matted training wall, punch bags, Olympic lifting area, power rack, ‘El Shane’ chin up – dip – ring station, dumbbells, swiss balls etc etc. In other words everything you need to develop real power and conditioning!

There will be Thai Boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts, Submission Wrestling, Clinch and Combat Conditioning classes on offer.

Also our world wide recognised ‘SBG Intro’ program designed to take YOU from couch potatoe to lean mean killing machine in 12-weeks. This course is designed for raw, out of shape beginners so don’t think ‘I’ll get fit first then join’ – this course will get you fit and ready for training.

For more information email sbgmembership@gmail.com or call 0876768911

Straight Blast Gym Ireland opened its doors in the summer of 2001, operating out of a 400sq ft (smaller than the shower room in new location!) garage. The roof was leaking, the ‘mats’ didn’t offer much protection and it was always cold but a who’s who of Irish MMA started training there from Andy Ryan, now running SBG Northside, David Jones, now heading up Next Generation, Colm O’Reilly of Spartan MMA, Ian Ward of Celtic MMA not to mention a host of top fighters from The Wolf Dave Roche, the Badman Clive Staunton, Sissy Boy Mick Leonard, John Donnelly, Adrian Drago Degorski, Rowdy Owen Roddy et al.

After about 2 years SBG relocated to harold’s cross and continued to grow to about 100 members. Most training for a hobby, get fit and keep in shape but also producing athletes that were consistently getting results in MMA, BJJ and Submission Wrestling both in Ireland and abroad. Arni ‘The Ice Viking’ Isaksson travelled from Iceland to train full time and after a couple of months training shocked the UK MMA community by winning one of the last old school 8-man tournaments. Arm barring UFC fighter Denis Siver in the final. Also Ais ‘The Bash’ Daly started her MMA training here and will be debuting on Europe’s biggest MMA show Cage Rage UK in March this year.

After 3 years there a planned move to Tallaght fell through at the last minute leaving SBG homeless for a while. After a couple of months of training out of a school hall SBG re-opened in Rathcoole in July 2006. Although the facility and training were good the location made it difficult for a lot of people the get there. So we were always on the look out to move back closer to town.

Now being a short ride on the Luas from the city centre and also with a number of frequently running buses leaving you at the door we hope to make this type of training accessible to everybody. Maybe your goal is to fight in the cage….however that would make up about 1% of our membership, most people training do so out of sheer enjoyment, lose some weight and gain confidence.

“The closest I’ve come to a Peak Experience is through athletics” – Joseph Campbell.

No rituals, no politics, no titles, no hierarchy, no nonsense.

If this sounds like something that would interest you then leave your shoes and ego at the door, step on the mat and join the fastest growing sport in the world.

Nothingcompares

Savage!

Good luck

dlofnep

best of luck with it

RedRaven

Great move John the move will be a massive benifit to your club and its members, I think your numbers will swell much like the SBG trophy cabinet!!:D

I like the history bit aswell well done mate!!:)

Roper

Nice one John. Still the wrong side of the Liffey for me but nice one anyway!

GBX

Thats great John. I was with ya's in Harolds Cross for a while and the Rathcoole move stumped me. Is Paddy still doing the Muay Thai for ya's? I work and live close by. Will hopefully get back training soon now.

john kavanagh

yes paddy still with us

thanks guys, hopefully this move will make it a lot handier for people to get to us and i'd like to thank everybody who's stuck with us during the years even though some of them were travelling up to 3-4hrs round trip every evening.

Liam_B

Best of luck with it, John . Sounds Great!!

paddyc

Nice one John. Still the wrong side of the Liffey for me but nice one anyway!

thanks be to god for that...

Colm_OReilly

Nice!

David Jones

I remember it taking 3 hours one way on one occasion, just to get to phibsboro to train!

Best of luck with the new place!:D

Khannie

Congrats on the new place.

dunkamania

Sweet!:D

liam-h

good stuff, no more m50 for me!

bjj-fighter

Thats the best news I'v heard in while!I only live down the road.If you need a hand with anything just shout
,
Thanks

Tim_Murphy

Best of luck with it John.

JohnMc1

Good luck. Is this new academy close to Heuston St. train station by any chance?

jon1981

about 20 ish minutes from heuston on the luas

Best of luck John.

thesionnach

So there was alot more truth to Fighters Only than you let on... Dunno how this will affect me now but looking forward to the future.

JohnMc1

jon1981 wrote: »

about 20 ish minutes from heuston on the luas

Thanks jon. What stop should I get off at btw? I was hoping to come up and try one of the mid-day classes during one of my breaks from University.

FiannaGym.com

That is ANIMAL news!!!!

The real question is: Is there a subway near by? I mean, after XVT in Phibsborough we used to head into town to eat, then in harolds cross there was the walk to Rathmines for subway cookies. What now?

Thats really great news Kav such a long way from St Andrews!!

Peace

john kavanagh

JohnMc1 wrote: »

What stop should I get off at btw?

click for luas stop map

hope you aint studying 'observation' lol

thanks guys, hope to see a few of the old harolds cross heads re-appearing!

i'm sure we'll find somewhere to eat haha

Colm_OReilly

john kavanagh wrote: »

i'm sure we'll find somewhere to eat haha

You pay?

sparta

john kavanagh

thesionnach wrote: »

So there was alot more truth to Fighters Only than you let on

this was a case of the Effect causing the Cause...

john kavanagh

lol 'sparta', nice map!

bjj-fighter

FiannaGym.com wrote: »

That is ANIMAL news!!!!

The real question is: Is there a subway near by? I mean, after XVT in Phibsborough we used to head into town to eat, then in harolds cross there was the walk to Rathmines for subway cookies. What now?

Thats really great news Kav such a long way from St Andrews!!

Peace

Yup theres a new Subway around the corner beside an Eddie Rockets

sparta

john kavanagh wrote: »

lol 'sparta', nice map!

Map of Pub locations to follow :-)

hiromatsu22

Best of luck with it John

Ger Healy

Best of luck John, will have to drop into you sometime soon

JohnMc1

john kavanagh wrote: »

click for luas stop map

hope you aint studying 'observation' lol

thanks guys, hope to see a few of the old harolds cross heads re-appearing!

i'm sure we'll find somewhere to eat haha

Thanks John. I'm studying Computing btw.

fatal

congratulations.Thank god this is alot closer for me now.I'll definitley pop in to you now

Frank Bullitt

Great news John, fair play, i used to go out to Harold's cross, loved it but the move to rathcoole kicked my ass so had to stop, this move is making me consider canceling my current gym membership and heading back to SBG.

Pride Fighter

Your new location is near the O'Neill's house of sport were Judo Ireland has its HQ. Thats a nice central location, good luck.

Nothingcompares

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Your new location is near the O'Neill's house of sport were Judo Ireland has its HQ. Thats a nice central location, good luck.

what are you talking about?

GBX

The O'Neills building houses the Judo Ireland HQ and a lot of other sports if I remember correctly. It would be at the back of the new SBG place.

3KINGS

All the best for the new place John.Wishing your club goes from strength to strength,as well as Paddy's Muay Thai Camp..............J

Killme00

john kavanagh wrote: »

Also our world wide recognised ‘SBG Intro’ program designed to take YOU from couch potatoe to lean mean killing machine in 12-weeks. This course is designed for raw, out of shape beginners so don’t think ‘I’ll get fit first then join’ – this course will get you fit and ready for training.

Do SBG Nothside also run this course? Might be the kick in the hole my fitness needs.

Bridgestone Man

Crongrats and good luck to John and Paddy.

PK.

HammerHeadGym

Best of luck John. I'll see you there in April.

john kavanagh

good stuff dave, colin was telling me about some of your exploits in thailand...

Darkwarrior

Best of Luck John and Paddy, hope to see ya soon.

Damo W

Best of luck with it.

Pride Fighter

When is this happening, I might pop down when it happens.

SorGan

any judo at the moment in sbg...or after the move?

john kavanagh

no and no

however as part of my 6-week teaching cycle we spend 1 week out of 6 on takedowns.....but if you are particularily interested in judo then i'd join a judo club

JohnMc1

Didn't there used to be Judo at SBG ? I could of sworn your schedule did have Judo classes.

john kavanagh

yes, there used to be

...but if there's any judo coaches out there that want a free matted area to train in....PM me!

SorGan

john kavanagh wrote: »

no and no

however as part of my 6-week teaching cycle we spend 1 week out of 6 on takedowns.....but if you are particularly interested in judo then i'd join a judo club

not particularly jon, grappling in general has peeked my interest of late, really know nothing of bjj takedowns, would they include throws?:)

JohnMc1

john kavanagh wrote: »

yes, there used to be

...but if there's any judo coaches out there that want a free matted area to train in....PM me!

Thanks for clearing that up for me John.