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MMA No0b Blog Week 17

What’s up no0bs? How are you? I’m great! Just had an amazing MMA session at the gym. We’ve got a new striking coach Dan Hudson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4bI4cJ2bU, yeah he’s a world class Thai boxer, stud beast freak etc. He ran us through an incredibly well structured 2 hour crash course in the basics of Maui Thai and I learnt a lot! We went over the technique of...

Jan 17th

MMA No0b Blog Week 16

Merry Christmas everybody!! Just finished work for the year, very happy, I worked most nights over the last couple of weeks to get everything finished, to which my body replied: “how about I throw up on Tuesday morning for no reason?”. I’m done it feels good, and I’m not throwing up any more, which is excellent. Jitz on Monday was a kind of last session of the year battle...

Dec 22nd

MMA No0b Blog Week 15

Ow, is becoming my trademark sign-in for this blog. A day later and my left thigh is still very sore. I’ve been hobbling round the office and walking like a gangster to the shops. Leg kicks during striking sparring are the main culprits. Yesterday we worked knees for two solid hours followed by an hour of sparring stand up and grappling. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,...

Dec 14th

MMA No0b Week 14

Wow NOH is over (incredible btw) and I jumped straight back in with Jitz on Monday and MMA on Tuesday. Well I thought it was going to be MMA, usually starts with an hour of karate right? Wrong. So the prof gets a hold of Jordan and says, “we’ll start with re-capping from last time” and proceeds to low blow the poor guy and palm strike him under the jaw.. To which I say “is...

Dec 8th

MMA No0b Week 13

Stuff! I’ve begged skrimped (?) and saved over the past 13 weeks and finally managed to get together all the stuff I need for mma! Yeah! Little gloves for mma fights, big gloves for sparring and working on the boxing, awesome bad boy shorts, shin and foot guards for sparring and amateur fights, groin guard (xs) gum shield, hand wraps and a small vegetable knife. I’ve maybe maybe got...

Nov 15th

MMA No0b Week 12

Well well, no fighting for two weeks makes Andrew a frustrated MMA No0b. A combination of illness and NOH rehearsals has kept me out of the gym for two whole weeks. It’s left me feeling tired, frustrated and a bit demotivated tbh. I feel like I’m letting down the prof and the guys at the forge. My priorities are church over hobbies but still feels …mggurrhh. I’ve been...

Nov 11th

Watch

Forge MMA 3. horrible iphone3 footage, but you get the general idea of what the place looks like

Oct 25th

Watch

Forge MMA 2

Oct 25th

MMA No0b Week 10

No MMA this week due to band practices for Sheffield’s Night of Honour, although my fight finally has a date!! The last Saturday of January. So.. I’m pretty much going to be a crazy awesome gorilla ninja by then. I recommend the Jay Mohr and also Joe Rogan podcasts. They are brill, and also talk about MMA, sometimes.

Oct 20th

MMA No0b Week 9

This week’s session really hurt. Started off with an hour of karate which was great, we did loads of heavy stretching, you know the Good stretch - so good it hurts, the deep burn. We learnt two speed kicks and the side kick and turning side kick, a la GSP (eg vs Matt Hughes). A lot of power behind that one. Then onto the MMA, intense warm up which usually involves lining up at one end of the...

Oct 13th

MMA No0b Week 8

Kee-ai!! I just did karate, and it was freaking awesome. I turned up for MMA without reading the timetable. We started off with some jogging and stretching, then went on to some speedy punch combos with the emphasis on speed. To finish off we sparred for about 20 mins. Striking in karate seems to be less about power necessarily, but more about speed and mobility. Thinking about this striking style...

Oct 4th

Sep 29th

MMA No0b Week 7

No mma this week, our gym just moved premises so we had our first session at the new place. It’s incredible! Its a warehouse building filled with £10,000 worth of beautiful blue and red mats. It’s behind Crystal Peaks, post code: S20 7. We just had a jitz seminar with two of the best guys on the planet, the Mendes brothers. To put it in perspective, it was like turning up to your...

Sep 28th

MMA No0b Week 6

I was thinking about why I wanted to start fighting MMA over the past week. My motivations, if they were coming from a good place, or from some kind of deep seated anger issues or insecurities. I spoke to my pastor and asked him if he was cool with me cage fighting, he looked at me puzzled and said “yeah, of course..”. I suppose that’s that settled then. I already knew this...

Sep 21st

MMA No0b 5

The New York athletic state commission will not licence MMA within the borders of it’s jurisdiction, despite years of lobbying by the UFC, and despite the tangible periodic economic boost it would bring to the area. Why? Not because of an aggressively anti-Zuffa union which spends millions lobbying against the UFC for it’s own gains, no, it’s because it’s a nasty, primal...

Sep 14th

MMA No0b 4

John: “So when were you thinking of fighting?” Me: “Whenever you think I’m ready” John: “I’ll put you on for an event in November we’ve got coming up” Me: “……ok” It’s official: I’m an MMA fighter with an upcoming fight!!! I’m so pumped right now, not even nervous or scared, just excited. I’m...

Sep 6th

Sep 1st

MMA No0b Week 3

“I’m pretty happy with that.” A statement that may as well have been animated by Pixar, a proper shining golden Hollywood moment. Rewind two minutes, I’m at the end of myself physically and mentally, gasping and yelping like a dying rabbit. I’m sparring with head instructor prof. John Goldson, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, Wadoryu Karate (don’t know what that is, but it sounds scary) and most...

Aug 31st

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MMA No0b Week 2

I kicked a black belt in the balls. I was sparring stand-up with my instructor James (him going 20% me going 99%), trying out leg kicks and jabs to the body in-between getting hammered with precise combos, when it happened.. I landed my first kick to the body off my back leg, only it didn’t land on his body, it landed flush on his balls. I can’t remember if this was before or after...

Aug 24th

MMA No0b Week 1

Ow. I have an announcement to make, I’m going to have a mixed martial arts fight next year. I’m in pain because I’ve just been to my first mixed martial arts training session, where I’ve been kicked punched and sat on for 3 hours. My legs are bruised and sore, I’ve got a headache and I’m slightly dehydrated. Why am I doing this to myself you may ask,...

Aug 16th

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May 20th

May 3rd

Real Men

http://www.uproxx.com/feature/2010/05/six-soldiers-who-are-cooler-than-you/

Jun 2nd

Real Men; The Fight Club!

i am a master of fighting. when you come to my Fight Club, my master ‘john’ will teach you the basics of BJJ. let me break it down: Brazilian Ju Jitsu is a form of grappling. You wear a ‘gi’ like judo, or ‘no gi’ in which you usually wear a rash vest and shorts. In competition you start standing up, and score points much like boxing. The aim is to submit...

May 27th

how great is the internet?!

http://failblog.org/ http://www.todaysbigthing.com/ http://www.somethingawful.com/ http://www.theonion.com/video/

May 27th

BBQ Playlist

my hot bbq mix http://www.youtube.com/user/andrewtregoning#grid/user/5315693FB281D790 eat your meats, and put up your feets

May 18th

Nate's song

Intro B C# E x2 Verse B….G# E x2 Pre Chorus F# E F#-G#-E F# E F# Chorus B E G# F# x2 B C# E F# BIG TUNE!

May 18th

my top ten albums right now, and why

relationship of command by at the drive-in utterly relentless brilliance. killed nu-metal, possibly the most energetic album ever made. nothing else makes me just wanna get up and Dance like this record. standout track cosmonaut kid a by radiohead perfect album, excels in driving and sitting down situations. standout track: idioteque miss machine by dillinger escape plan best metal...

May 13th

Apr 23rd

this is awesome

http://vimeo.com/8971732 so is this http://www.vimeo.com/8851579 so is this http://vimeo.com/10886176

Apr 16th

friday today!

ok ‘dash’ didn’t stick, i’m trying for ‘the bearded dragon’ now. it’s a species of lizard. i just remembered a funny moment in my life; i was at a christian youth conference a few years ago, walking from my dorm to the dinner hall or something, lost in my own thoughts.. i look to my right and there he is, the special needs guy bruno standing on top of a...

Apr 9th

my nickname

is now Dash. as in damon or fast or handsome. this is a sticker people, i’ve got good feelings about it. this is some stream of consciousness shiz. dream soundtracks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-JplKVb1g Trademarks and characteristics that define Meshuggah’s sound and complex songwriting include polyrhythmic structure, odd riff cycles, complex “rotating” time...

Mar 5th

new track

on my fairtilizer page. it’s called kernow, cos that’s what i was thinking of when i did it. holla back, tell me what you think! http://fairtilizer.com/user/andrewtregoning

Mar 5th

Don't get UFC?

then watch this, it was on saturday between two legends, randy is 47! http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Randy_Couture_vs_Antonio_Rodrigo_Nogueira_UFC_102?vid=10006226&tid=100

Aug 31st

Boxing

This is boxing Joe Calzaghe you’re welcome

Aug 24th