The NBC show, 1st/Look:NY recently visited Ronin Athletics to do a segment on training MMA as an alternative to a regular gym workout.

They’re featuring the gym, have shot interview footage of Christian, and also had him teach, train, and lightly spar with one of their correspondents.

Also featured in the segment will be some class footage from the Kickboxing 101 & MMA Fundamentals classes.

The show is going to air this Saturday, January 25th on NBC-4 @ 7:30pm.

DON’T MISS IT!!

Straight Blast Gym President & Founder, Matt Thornton, will be holding a two-day Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts Seminar at RONIN ATHLETICS!

Dates: Saturday Jan. 19th and Sunday Jan. 20th.
Times: 11am-5pm (with a lunch break).

Space will be limited so contact the gym to reserve your spot!

BJJ Black Belt and Pro-MMA fighter, Danny Suarez, was in town again this past holiday season and treated everyone to great workshop, focusing on takedowns, 1/4 position top ride/turnovers, Back Attacks, and Top Game for MMA. We look forward to his return in May.

Earlier this month, we had multiple-time NAGA, Grappler’s Quest, Bud Cup, Best of the West, and who-knows-how-many-more tournament Winner and Submission Grappling circuit phenom Ryan Hall (www.ryanhallgameplan.com) of Team Lloyd Irvin visit us during a long Columbus day weekend. Ryan is an old friend of ours from when he used to go to school in NYC. he’s infamous for his relentless and unorthodox guard attacks, however on our mats he also displayed for us some of his favourite takedowns, arm-drags, and what seemed like a magical twister-control.

October also brought to our shores Christian Graugart (shogunhq.blogspot.com) BJJ Purple belt (sandbagger) and Instructor of the Copenhagen Sports Academy in Denmark. Christian was here for 2 weeks, while also taking time to visit the West Coast and enjoy NYC, he was nice enough to teach some of the newer aspects of his phenomal game (”Five Swords” Top Game) to the guys at Ronin Athletics! This year marks Graugart’s 4th straight annual visit and we look forward to seeing him again next fall.

The NYC Limited Grappling Championship was held this past Sunday, June 10th in NYC @ FightHouse (our former home :) Ronin Athletics had a couple of competitors who placed and others who did extremely well. Some were competing in Submission Wrestling for the very first time and others were testing themselves in a higher skill division. Congratulations to everyone that competed! A special nod to:

Matt Oley - First Place/Beginner Lightweight
Josh Bonacci - First Place/Beginner LightHeavyweight
Dmitry Zvonkov - Second Place/Intermediate Welterweight

Keep up the good work guys and be ready for the next one in July!

Pics coming soon …