Monday, November 17, 2008

WMMA wins at NAGA!

The Woodstock Mixed Martial Arts High Intensity Team grappled with schools from across the nation at the North American Grappling Association's Midwest Grappling Championship on Saturday. This Nationally Ranked event saw the 8 member Team WMMA bring home two First Place wins, seven Second Place medals, and three Third Place medals for a total of 12 awards, besting their May outing by eight more medals!

Stormie Lacey

Zach Rudder

Tara O'Connell and Kassandra Salgado

Jake Amati

Alec Mitchell


Jake Kramer

Alan Dyson

Pro-Star Director Joe Brignoli made the trip from Tampa, florida to lead a special training session and to help cheer our students to victory. The Pro-Star program has sparked the team's successes at NAGA and Pro-Star schools, led by Grappling Director Jerry Jones' Ultimate Fighting School, are currently ranked #3 in the nation at NAGA contests.

Mr. Brignoli will be in town through Thursday. All students are encouraged to attend as many classes as possible this week in order to take advantage of his incredible MMA knowledge and experience as well as his high energy teaching style, guaranteed to renew each student's excitement about the Mixed Martial Arts!

The WMMA HIT Team!


Reminder: The school will be closed next week (Nov 24 -29) for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Classes will be back to the normal schedule on Monday, Dec 1.

Testing Week Schedules and our Christmas Holiday Schedule will be available at the school soon. We're going to have some special review sessions and lots of free sparring and grappling both the week before Christmas and the week after. Plan on spending some of those Christmas vacation days working off some of those Holiday cookies!

1 comment:

TaraO said...

I truly think that NAGA is one of the best tournaments out there. It is about as fair as it gets. You can tell that the referees really know what they are doing and have great care for fighter safety. I learned so much from my experience and cant wait to apply what I learned to my training. I am already looking forward to the next NAGA tournament in may. Overall NAGA was just an amazing experience and I highly recommend it to all who enjoy the sport of grappling.