OC Kickboxing and MMA’s Kid’s Competition Team made the drive to Las Vegas Nevada, to try their hand at the Pankration Open Tournament held at Xtreme Couture. A total of eleven kids competed that day. Seven of them went home with medals!

The kids that did not win medals all had excellent fights and gained a great deal of experience. Some highlights were young Alex Gonzales winning gold after an amazing display of his clinch, ultimately winning via arm bar in the final round.

Other notables include Jonavan “Sumo” Asuncion winning two fights by taking down his opponents, mounting them, hitting and finishing by arm bar in both cases. Sumo took home a silver medal. Travis Duncan also took home silver. Travis had a dog fight in the first round that ended in a loss, but fought his way back to a rematch against the same opponent for second place later in the day. Within thirty seconds Travis won by rear choke.

The event was a big success and we look forward to July 16, were most of these kids will be competing in the Kids World Championship BJJ tournament.

June 2, 2011

Congratulations to OCKMMA Instructor Mario Navarro who won his 3rd Pro MMA bout last night in Round 2 by triangle at Fight Club OC! Mario’s Pro MMA record is now 3-0. GO MARIO!!!

May 6th-8th 2011

Last week OC Kickboxing’s fight coach Mike Frison and assistant fight coach Carlos Luevano took a trip to Sacramento to train with former WEC feather weight champ, and UFC number one contender Urijah Faber and the whole Alpha Male squad.

The training was as dynamic and intense as the all of the famous Alpha Male fighters.

 

The first night was a submission wrestling tutorial with Team Alpha Male ground work specialist Dustin Akbari, the instruction was greatly detailed around the open guard, as well as leg lock finishes. This particular training session finished with some rolling time for both OCKB coaches with bantam weight top contender Joseph Benavides along with Urijah Faber himself.

Day two was a highly eclectic striking clinic with Justin Buccholz as well as Alpha Male Muay Thai coach Master Thong, after training both OCKB coaches attended a BBQ at Urijah’s house to watch the Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight.

  

Day three was a full MMA mixture taught by Urijah, mixing in all aspects of the MMA game, but focusing on ground and pound. All of the members of Team Alpha Male were excellent, down to earth coaches.

A big thank you, to all of the Alpha Male members, Dave Rowen and of course “The California Kid” himself, Urijah Faber.

Saturday, April 23rd 2011

OC Kickboxing entered its first ever, Kids MMA team into the Camp Pendleton Pankration tournament. After a long training camp of nearly six weeks, a total of twenty five kids participated in the event. The vast majority of these kids had never competed before.

  

The team had a total of six students place in their divisions, despite the last minute news that all of our girls would have to fight against boys due to a lack of girls in the brackets. Nine year old Luis Ramirez took home a gold medal after two matches, both ending in wins via arm bar submission.

  

A great time was had by all who fought and a great deal of experience was gained as well. With out a doubt from the beginning of the training camp to the end of the tournament, every student improved dramatically in their overall skill. The competition team looks forward to the next Pankration tournament as well as the Kids World Jiu-Jitsu tournament as our next events.

5/4/2011

After winning the Quake in the Cage Belt, OCKMMA MMA Fighter Greg Parker was promoted to Purple Belt level in No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu (Purple Shorts) by Black Belt Head Instructor, Daniel Sullivan. Go Parker!