The UK MMA League is the largest open mixed martial arts event in Europe and is now in its second year of operation. All competitors get at least one 5-minute fight. For the Banbury event fights will take place in the Warriors’ 16ft cage, making this a unique opportunity for Oxfordshire’s mixed martial artists to test themselves in an environment as close to a professional cage fight as possible.

Registration is open and must be completed before the day of the event.

Good luck to all fighters! MMA Oxford will be posting results and reports.

Two things to tell you about. First up, RGAA is now RGAB - the expansion has continued with Roger Gracie brown belt Kevin Capel’s BJJ school now entitled Roger Gracie Academy Buckinghamshire. There has been a re-jig of the timetable too to include sessions dedicated to sparring as well as an extra Thursday class at High Wycombe Amateur Boxing Club.

Secondly there are some new details from Warriors MMA about their sessions that run out of the Fighting Fit Martial Arts Centre in Banbury. MMA classes are now on both Tuesdays and Fridays, plus Muay Thai has started up on a Monday night.

Full details, as ever, are in MMA Oxford’s clubs sections. I always welcome additions and revisions to the list, so please contribute if you can.

If you make it to either club, let everyone know your thoughts on what they’re offering in the comments section below.

This promises to be a great chance to train fairly locally with one of the first UK black belts in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and places are limited so act early. The flyer for the event can be found below. Details on the RGAA, which is only about a 40 minute drive from the centre of Oxford, can be found at the Clubs page.

Flyer for Jude Samuels seminar.

If your attending the sessions and would like to review them, please leave a message in the comments section below.

BJJ black belt Italo Ferreira, who recently won his superfight against Kevin Chan at the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Invitational (Seni 08), will be running a new weekly 2-hour Brazilian Jiu-jitsu class (1 hour gi, 1 hour no-gi) from Friday, 19th September.

The class takes place at Oxford Brookes University Centre for Sports - see the Clubs page for time and location details. More information is forthcoming, so stay tuned.

Ace.

Update: Prices have been announced for these sessions, a very reasonable £10 for guys and £8 for girls. Get involved - less than two weeks to go to let your training partners know about this!