THE RED CORNER

NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE NORTH STAR ACADEMY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 30th, 2024

 

Happy Monday Team!

Full disclosure, I often write these on Sunday as if I were writing them Monday morning 🙂

I am currently in terminal 4 in LAX awaiting our return flight to Philadelphia after a successful outing on the West Coast.

Gianna put together a high pressure five round performance to secure the national interim WBC belt against a very game opponent in Rachel Belmont.  This was a pretty involved endeavor, with a ton of coordination between the WBC (thank you Kru Patrick Rivera), the CA Athletic Commission, and our team.

It’s always challenging jumping through a new set of hoops and expectations but we got it done.  A TON of work for only about 15 minutes of work but that’s the nature of the sport!

Big thank you to the team at large for the support and training leading up to this point.  This is the belt and it secures Gianna as the #1 132lb fighter in the country!  That’s no small feat.

I’m excited to put this project successfully behind us and really focus on the grappling competitions coming up in the next two months — as such our Jiu Jitsu 201 programming for October will be built around competition drills and competition prep.  Whether you plan to compete or not, you will get a ton of value out of the active training we have planned for this month.

 

We also have our Level 2 Muay Thai Shorts Test in two weeks!  This is a new (well, old, really, but new to most of you) effort we are initiating for our striking program and it’s open to all students with approx 3+ months of training or more (or coach’s permission).

It can be challenging to know where to put your attention and focus in the martial arts — there is just so much to learn, so much to study, that a major difficulty is just parsing through all that info and approaching it from the right angle and sequence.

Our striking shorts tests are designed to give you way points in your striking career to keep you on what we believe to be the most efficient and important path.

I sincerely hope you will take on this challenge and join us!  It’s going to be fun, it’s going to be hard, and it’s going to be a great training session.

If you’d like to register for the Level 2 Shorts Test, click here.

For reference, our full event lineup is below:

• 10/5 — Grappling Industries in Broomall, PA
• 10/12 — North Star Level 2 Shorts Test
• 10/23 — ISKA International Championships featuring Gianna Vadino and Tim Green in Vienna, Austria
• 11/9 — Tap Cancer Out in Hatfield, PA
• 11/22 — WAKO Kickboxing Nationals in Delaware

Looking forward to catching up with everyone in training today (technically, tomorrow lol).  Might be a little jet lagged but it’s not important that we’re 100% for our training.  Just that we give as close to 100% of what we have on any given day to the things that are most important to us.

See you on the mats!

 

–Coach Jackson

You can find this week’s Monday Mindset HERE

You can find this week’s Junior Samurai Stripe Challenge HERE