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THE MUAY TRAVELLER

March 29, 2017

Tom Billinge

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Destination

I first started Muay Thai in the early 2000s. I began training with Ryan Rudkin at Singto Muay Thai in my hometown of Cambridge and quickly became addicted. I had spells travelling to Thailand and training at Jittigym in Bangkok. I also had the enormous honour of training with the late Ramon Dekkers at his […]

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NEW YORK MUAY THAI AND THE CITY

MMA TUTORIALS: COUNTER THE JAB

March 24, 2017

Alex Wright

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MMA

Mixed Martial Arts use of distance has always been crucial during the standup phase of the fight and a common issue when fighters come from a different base such as Muay Thai. Fighters still look to count or evade, in the way a standup fighter would, without considering the range of attacks they might face […]

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HOW I BEAT MR FINLAND: ARNOLD ALLEN MMA TUTORIAL PT1

PUFFIES – MMA SPARRING

March 21, 2017

Alex Wright

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MMA

The MMA training gear has developed a variety of odd names but “Puffies”, aka MMA sparring gloves, hybrids or training gloves, might just be winning the title of weirdest, maybe alongside “Tighties”, aka Vale Tudo Shorts. It’s hard to say when this odd little name twist happened but we’re hearing it more and more. After […]

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MMA GLOVES – WHATS BEST FOR MMA TRAINING?

SO CAL BJJ WILL BE A REVGEAR ORIGINAL

March 19, 2017

Alex Wright

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BJJ

Having produced quality kimonos for Badboy under license between 2009 and 2011, running a successful Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tournament in Denver Colorado in 2014 and sponsoring some of the world’s greatest Brazilian MMA fighters including World Champion Fabricio Werdum, why REVGEAR has never made a serious move into the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu market, beyond the […]

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GRAPPLING DUMMIES COMPARED

ONE CHAMPIONSHIP

March 10, 2017

Alex Wright

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Events

If you have not yet heard of ONE Championship, then maybe it’s time you have. It is widely seen as the world’s second biggest Mixed Martial Arts event. It pays top money to fighters and with a name like that, it can’t be long before it will not be so happy about being the world’s […]

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2018 MMA REVIEW

BEYOND BOXING: TEAM ALPHA MALES JOEY RODRIGUEZ

March 7, 2017

Alex Wright

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Boxing

Beyond Boxing: Coach Joey Rodriguez In 2002 when I first experienced transferring the skills I’d learned during years of boxing and traditional martial arts training, to the new sport that was taking over… MMA, the landscape of Mixed Martial Arts was very different in many ways. Names like Matt Hughes, Tito Ortiz, Jens Pulver and […]

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S5 All Rounder with Icy Mike

KARL TANSWELL – THE ESSENTIAL PADMAN

March 5, 2017

Alex Wright

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Coaches

Karl Tanswell has been involved in martial arts and Combat sports most of his life. He’s currently the Head Coach and Director of SBG UK and the SBG Manchester Fight Team. As a mixed martial arts coach, he has developed athletes who regularly compete on all the major promotions, amassing many titles along the way. […]

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Eddie Cha & REVGEAR’s MINI AIR MITT PRO

FOAM STICK TRAINING FOR BOXING & MMA

February 26, 2017

Alex Wright

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Boxing

You may have seen various coaches holding strange foam sticks and seemingly attacking their students with them, in what may initially look like a Jeet Kune Do’Esque throw back or maybe adding in Eskrima or similar to their open hand training. But with guys like Canelo Alvarez James De Gale and Ricky Hatton using the […]

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4 WAYS TO WRAP HANDS FOR COMBAT SPORTS

BRUTAL TRUTH: AMERICAN TOP TEAMS JAKE BOSTWICK

February 24, 2017

Alex Wright

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Athletes

Jake “Brutal” Bostwick is taking a path through the professional martial arts world that many a fighter might well take heed of. Spending his time between his second home in Miami with his American fiancé Vanessa, and his birth place of South London, the English middleweight trains with some of the world’s best. Day in […]

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JUST ANOTHER DAY BY RICKY SKRAPS

UFC LONDON: ARNOLD ALLEN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

February 23, 2017

Alex Wright

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Athletes

ne of the UK’s brightest up and comers in the Ultimate Fighting Championships featherweight division Arnold “Almighty” Allen, has now spent the last 12 months or so, training with the world’s best Mixed Martial Arts athletes at the famous Tristar gym in Montreal, Canada and under the watchful eye of Canadian Muay Thai Fighter and […]

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JUST ANOTHER DAY BY RICKY SKRAPS