The Red Corner || 08.22.22 ||

Happy Monday Team!

We’ve been working our tails off this month and I’m excited to wrap it up with a strong showing at the Finisher’s Submission Only Grappling tournament this weekend!

September is shaping up to be a huge month for competition as well — we still have some irons in the fire, but already we have back-to-back weekends of action lined up.

• 9/16 Ground Zero Grappling | Philadelphia, PA
  • Gianna Vadino and Paul Sims are slated for grappling superfights, with some pending matchups to be announced we hope.  This event goes down at the Sheet Metal Workers Union Hall on Columbus Blvd — tickets available soon!
• 9/24 Gut Check Championship Series | Hockessin, DE
  • Trevon Scales makes his third appearance in the Gut Check ring against another tough opponent.  We’ll have the ticket link for ou shortly — save the date!

On another note, we’ll be operating on an adjusted schedule next week.  I’ll send out a separate e-mail in a day or two with the full class schedule.

Often, the weeks preceding holiday weekends are a great opportunity for us to loosen our ties (would the appropriate phrase be “loosen our handwraps, ” maybe?) and just do some fun, wild stuff in class.  We’ll be compressing our 101 and 201 level classes next week — I’d like to ask our senior students to “adopt” a beginner and show them the ropes if possible.

We’ll post the adjusted schedule on our Instagram and Facebook pages as well!

The Junior Samurai stripe challenge this week is RED.  Students can earn a red stripe by completing 200 pushups by Thursday.  These can be broken up into any amount.  Parents, please put an emphasis on full ROM (range of motion) and really challenge them.  If they break it up into chunks it should be easy!