mma

uprooted shane

hey any one know if theres a mixed martial arts soc or class in the sports center? i had a good luck there and cant find any thing!

Tricity Bendix

Don't know about classes, but there definately wasn't a MMA club when I was there last year. There area number of martial arts clubs, tho, such as tae kwon do, karate, kenpo, judo, and maybe a few others I've forgotten about. And there is also a boxing club.

I should think someone will try and set up a MMA club in the near future. It is amazingly popular.

uprooted shane

yea my room mate from dcu is doing it and he said its savage crack if noting else! thanks all the same though!

Boston

Hi Shane, the closest you'll get to that in trinity is the Judo club. They do BJJ on Wednesday evenings (and maybe starting on Saturday) BJJ is apparently something which tends to make up the core of MMA and is more then likely what your friend is doing plus some judo take downs and holds.

Boxing and judo would be your best bets. The judo club used to dabble in MMA, but don't anymore, or at least didn't last year. I think the Wednesday session is Japanese rather than Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It'd be cool to see an MMA club, but without a national governing body it would never get the nod from ducac.

Boston

I've not been, but people where saying BJJ.

uprooted shane

yea its just that me and my room mate are mad into our fitness and he was saying its a good change just form gym sessions 5 times a week for a few months! might give the judo a go so!

Boston

http://www.judo.tcdlife.ie/

AlanSparrowhawk

seeing that illegalheadbutt wrote the website and used to teach bjj in tcd i'll take his word for it.

http://kevinly.yore.ma/mmaclubs.html

there's a list of most mma clubs in dublin.

Boston

Kev, really, utterly not in the mood for you. I'm not contradicting illegalheadbutt, I know JJ of some form is done on a Wednesday night and BJJ was the term being throw around. It probably is JJJ as I've heard that term being throw around. Having not been I cannot confirm or contradict any assertions made.

riff-raff

Was thinking of bringing in MMA instructors into the sports centre but I Need to set up a club first and to get promission anybody got any ideas of who to see...:)

AlanSparrowhawk

peace out joe.

riff-raff in my day drinda jones was the gatekeeper for dept of sport and ducac stuff so she'd be the first person to see about setting up a mma club. however, i see a huge amount of difficulties.

a. they may just be against the sport fundamentally (no, it's just human cock fighing...
b. they are generally against new clubs in general
c. to make any kind of progress in mma you need 3 classes a week
d. to run a safe, fun and functional class you need a good coach. which are in short supply (all the coaches already have full time clubs).

anyway, in my opinion people interested in mma should just spend the first year grappling and wrestling and then start thinking about strikes. maybe run a grappling club.

i'm not saying it's impossible either.

lobsterstag

a straight bjj club would be awesome and they couldnt really be against it either!:cool:

riff-raff

AlanSparrowhawk wrote: »

peace out joe.

riff-raff in my day drinda jones was the gatekeeper for dept of sport and ducac stuff so she'd be the first person to see about setting up a mma club. however, i see a huge amount of difficulties.

a. they may just be against the sport fundamentally (no, it's just human cock fighing...
b. they are generally against new clubs in general
c. to make any kind of progress in mma you need 3 classes a week
d. to run a safe, fun and functional class you need a good coach. which are in short supply (all the coaches already have full time clubs).

anyway, in my opinion people interested in mma should just spend the first year grappling and wrestling and then start thinking about strikes. maybe run a grappling club.

i'm not saying it's impossible either.

I see and agree with what your saying about and yes we have a good couch and I agree that its a full time job ..I use to do kenpo in the old hall and that only ran twice a week..
and I do agree the classes have to be fun and interesting and also deverse:)
I wouldnt how ever agree with the 1st year being only grappling or wrestling to be deverse the training must be alternated to keep students interested
and a lot of the hard work is done in the conditioning process..
Thanks for your help

AlanSparrowhawk

riff-raff wrote: »

I see and agree with what your saying about and yes we have a good couch and I agree that its a full time job ..I use to do kenpo in the old hall and that only ran twice a week..
and I do agree the classes have to be fun and interesting and also deverse:)
I wouldnt how ever agree with the 1st year being only grappling or wrestling to be deverse the training must be alternated to keep students interested
and a lot of the hard work is done in the conditioning process..
Thanks for your help

MMA is a very broad sport which also has a lot of depth. In MMA competitions you will get found out for lacking in a particular area. Kenpo cannot be compared to MMA.

You'd be surprised how diverse and interesting training in wrestling and grappling for mma would be. It's better, in my opinion, to spend quality time in less areas and making significant improvements rather than spending a less time in more areas and not making improvements.

riff-raff wrote: »

I see and agree with what your saying about and yes we have a good couch

Who? presumably you don't mean sofa

AlanSparrowhawk

lobsterstag wrote: »

a straight bjj club would be awesome and they couldnt really be against it either!:cool:

I wouldn't be against it. But the opposing argument could be

What distinguishes BJJ from Judo?
Where is the ngb? (ibjja is not functional as of yet afaik).
Who will teach?

Boston

If it's something offered by an existing club, you wont have much success trying to set up a new club just for it.

riff-raff

AlanSparrowhawk wrote: »

MMA is a very broad sport which also has a lot of depth. In MMA competitions you will get found out for lacking in a particular area. Kenpo cannot be compared to MMA.

You'd be surprised how diverse and interesting training in wrestling and grappling for mma would be. It's better, in my opinion, to spend quality time in less areas and making significant improvements rather than spending a less time in more areas and not making improvements.



Who? presumably you don't mean sofa

I meant coach
funny really if you read the tread I said use to do kenpo and no my friend I dont mean sofa:( and the stand up game is just as important as the grapple,I think thats why its called MMA:rolleyes:...
and by being diverse makes it appealing...
some fighters like stand up others take it to the ground I like both

AlanSparrowhawk

no idea what you're saying mate good luck with the club.

Cantab.

Sure next they'll be handing out Pinks to everyone in the "DUMMAC".

The members would probably go off and get zany club ties made up and design a stupid looking "logo" (coupled with an even more ridiculous website), then disgrace the College by getting their asses kicked at every crappy little competition they enter. "Sure it was great fun and a wonderful experience for all involved" (I'm envisaging the University Record sports section) they'll exclaim and wander over to Q-bar to piss the night away.

riff-raff

ah sure whats new ..have to agree would of.. could of... should of ...
it was just an idea to see if there was any interest in even starting a new club and how much hassle it would be to set one up..between all the politics in the college sounds like to much hassle

AlanSparrowhawk

Cantab. wrote: »

Sure next they'll be handing out Pinks to everyone in the "DUMMAC".

The members would probably go off and get zany club ties made up and design a stupid looking "logo" (coupled with an even more ridiculous website), then disgrace the College by getting their asses kicked at every crappy little competition they enter. "Sure it was great fun and a wonderful experience for all involved" (I'm envisaging the University Record sports section) they'll exclaim and wander over to Q-bar to piss the night away.

I would agree, MMA altheles would be much more deserved of a Pink then some bloke that plays rugby twice a week, goes on the piss twice a week and goes to 4 history lectures a week. The university has always been biased towards gay sports like rugby, hockey and boating or sailing or whatever that is. With the exception of the boat stuff, nobody outside these clubs give a damn about them.

Speaking of lossing every little competition they enter, where would the rugby team be without all the non-university players? Probably where they belong, in the J1.

Let's take a look at the numbers involved. There is more people doing Judo, a minor constituent of MMA then there are people doing Rugby and Hockey together. Where's the olympic status? Judo, boxing, wrestling (greco and freestyle).

Martial arts are practiced in every city in every country in the world, and within 10 years MMA, most martial artists will be involved in MMA and it will be bigger than pro-boxing and wrestling. More people probably watch a single MMA PPV then an entire hockey world cup.

Why not start an MMA club in the university and start developing world class athletes ?