Category: Seminars

Summer Promotions for Total Grappling!

Last weekend saw the annual summer grading at RGA Bucks HQ where students were treated to a masterclass in attacks from side control with Roger Gracie and Mauricio Gomes. Promotions followed on from the seminar where some of the Total Grappling members were rewarded for their dedication and progress in Jiu Jitsu. Congratulations to Chloe,…

Summer Promotions @ Total Grappling

This weekend saw the annual summer grading at RGA Bucks HQ hosted by Kevin Capel which included a technical seminar taught by Roger Gracie who taught some effective attacks from the closed guard and a couple of ways to approach passing the open guard with pressure. Following the seminar we had a couple of promotions…

Summer Promotions @ Total Grappling

This saw the return of RGA Bucks head instructor Kevin Capel visit and put on a guard passing clinic showing off some variations of the knee slide and leg drag passes followed by some sweeps from the sitting guard. The class was followed by belt promotions which in 2015 will becoming an increasingly more common…

Seminar: Seph Smith Returns!

This weekend American Black Belt and team Fifty/fifty instructor Seph Smith return from across the pond to teach another leg lock seminar @ Total Grappling. Seph started out showing some setups, sweeps and finishing details for the straight ankle lock from the bottom following on with some sneaky sweeps and attacks from the X-Guard and…

Competition Results May 2015

This weekend saw the return of the biggest competition of the year, the British Open in its new and improved location: The Coventry Skydome. The team only had 1 competitor, Ian Cooper who did the team proud winning Silver in the Master – Middle – White Belt category with 5 gruelling matches winning 4 by…

Training with the Boogeyman

On Saturday, students from the RGA Bucks association had the privelage to learn from 3x ADCC world submission wrestling champion and PRIDE/UFC MMA veteran Dean “The Boogeyman” Lister at the RGA Bucks Headquarters in Aylesbury. Dean spent a few hours of the afternoon taking students through the concepts and mechanics of his leg lock game…