LOCATION:
5 minutes south of Springfield @
The Center (Nixa Community Center)
701 N Taylor Way
Nixa, MO

REGISTRATION: starts at 8:30 am
REGISTRATION COST (GRAPPLING ONLY):
MASK Members any 1 division $30.00
Non-members any 1 division $35.00

$10.00 for each additional Grappling division you qualify for

Cash prize for Adult Male Absolute
All grappling competitors must be present for rules meeting prior to beginning of competition.
Competition will begin at 10:30 am SHARP!

For more information contact Binky Furstenberg 417-886-6305 or email binkmaster1@hotmail.com

<Tournament Flyer Link>

Lance Blagg went down to Texas and represented well at the NAGA event on February 20th. Lance went 3-2 on the day, placing 3rd in no-gi and 2nd in the gi (losing both times to the same 4-stripe blue belt).  In the gi finals Lance had the score tied up 0-0, but lost on advantages.

Pictures:

Video:

Mason Slaughter took 1st in 13-14 Intermediate (Gi and No-Gi). Mason also had a beautiful flying arm bar attempt, we’ll put video up ASAP.

Micheal Slaughter took second in 11-12 Intermediate (Gi) Forfeited No-Gi Due to injury.

Isaac Willis took first in his age bracket including absolute.

Matt Williams took 1st in intermediate bantamweight, (Gi). <Video Link>

Ryan Magers’ student Austin Hurst took 1st in 13-14 Beginner (Gi) including absolute. <Video 1> <Video 2>

A special thank you to Adam Reynolds for taking time out of his day to coach the boys. You rock!

The next MASK tournament is going to be March 27 at the Nixa Community Center (same place as the last one). <Flyer Link>

Eli Rodriguez lost to Rachel Munro via unanimous decision. Eli Came out strong winning the first round. Munro would go on to take the second and third rounds as Eli’s cardio began to fade.
Joe O’Neill defeated Justin Woehler via unanimous decision. The fight was scheduled as Muay Thai rules. Joe came out and downed his opponent with knees to the body from thai clinch within the first 15 seconds of the fight. His corner refused to do Muay Thai rules afterward so Joe agreed to continue on under low kick rules. Joe won every round and put woehler down 3 times; once with a sweep and twice with leg kicks.

JW Wright’s tournament was a pretty awesome event. There was a great turnout, especially for blue belts:

Robert Drysdale showed up and did a demo, in addition to a superfight between a couple of upper belts at the beginning of the tournament. Videos of that will get uploaded to the Video section soon.

Springfield Fight Club had a pretty good turnout too:

There was also a solid turnout from Gracie Barra Springfield, Illinois, so there was a lot of GB around.

Congrats to Doug Smith for winning his division in gi, Kyle Swadley for winning his division in no gi, and Chris Chambers for winning his division in no gi (and 2nd place in his gi division)!
Brent Petr took 2nd place in no gi winning first match by gogoplata and losing second match by points.
Ron Fosdyck  took 2nd place in gi division winning first match by americana and losing second match by points.

I’ll post videos of some of the matches as soon as I can. If you were there and want me to post how you did drop me an email with your results to steelviper at gmail d0t c0m (typed correctly, of course) and I’ll update this post.

Some pictures of the competition can be found in the Grappling Competition album for SFC.

Amateur Bouts:
Ryan Smith lost via tko 2nd round
Jered Gibbs won via choke 3rd round
Tyler Johnson lost via un dec
Mark Nguyen won via un dec
James Davis won via armbar second round
Pro Bouts:
Jesse Zeugin won via guillotine choke 1 rd.
Brian Pearman won via reverse triangle 3rd round
Michael Johnson defeated Chris McDaniel to claim the XCF Lightweight title via tap out to strikes in the 1st round.

Great job, guys! Thanks to everybody who came out and supported our fighters.

Rick and Gabe gave out some stripes at tonight’s class.

Congrats to everybody who’s sporting some extra tape on their belts. A good reminder for folks who care about that stuff to show up to some night classes, and bring their gi (complete with a BJJ belt).

Springfield Fight Club will be hosting Heath Herring for a seminar Thursday, February 4th  6-8pm cost is $50.00 . The seminar will be MMA with an emphasis on Muay Thai.  We’d like to thank Lance Burns of Ringside Bar and Grill in Lebanon for making the seminar possible.

Heath Herring is an MMA fighter who practices sambo and muay thai. He currently lives in Las Vegas and trains at Warrior Training Center under the Dutch Kickboxing/Muay Thai legend Rob Kaman. Herring is a long time veteran in PRIDE, where he participated in 17 fights. He took part in the first Heavyweight title fight against Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira where he lost by unanimous decision. Despite his earlier championship
loss to Rodrigo Nogueira he was widely considered the number one contender until his first round loss to Fedor Emelianenko.  His most notable wins are over Evan Tanner, Igor Vovchanchyn, Mark Kerr, and Cheick Kongo. Herring is also a UFC Veteran.

Please note that regular classes are canceled for that night.

Feb 6th 2010

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