£1,716.25 raised for Kidscape - thank you!

Thank you to everyone for the generous donations - the Essex GrappleThon team have raised well over £1,700 for children's charity Kidscape! For a smaller club this is excellent, and is way beyond the £250 target I had originally set for the team. Over £1,400 was raised via the team's Just Giving page and over £300 was raised on the day from donations from the team, our excellent supporters and the fight-wear auction.

A massive thank you to all my team mates at Origin MMA Academy and friends for taking part, without whom the day wouldn't have been a success.  I'm truly honoured to know and train with such awesome people. We are more than a team, we're family! A special thank you to Marc Walder for his support and being an inspiration to all involved in BJJ. Thank you to my BJJ coach Spencer Hewitt for his support and use of the gym. A big shout out to the kids class and thanks to all the supporters for providing an excellent atmosphere and food! Thanks to Meerkatsu, Battle Gear BJJ and Shieldwall MMA for providing excellent items for the auction. Lastly, much love and thanks to my beautiful wife Lisa and kids Zac and Isabella.

See you all next year for GrappleThon 2015!
Mike

GrappleThon update - new start time of 10am

Please note the charity GrappleThon for Kidscape will now start at 10am on Saturday 12th April 2014. This is so the kids class can take part in the event.

There's only a few weeks till the event now, if anyone would like to donate please visit the link below. Any donation is greatly appreciated - thank you

http://www.justgiving.com/originmmaacademy

 

Another auction update - thank you ShieldwallMMA!

Many thanks to Otto at ShieldwallMMA for the generous 300 style t-shirt donation. These (along with the other items) with be auctioned off in the academy on the day of the GrappleThon, all of the proceeds going to Kidscape.

 

ShieldwallMMA are an excellent UK based MMA clothing company, who actively sponsor UK based fighters. Their new exciting range of fight apparel should be available soon at http://shieldwallmma.com/ . I’ve seen some of their designs and the gear looks awesome. For updates please like or follow them on Facebook or Twitter @shieldwallmma

 

Anyone who wants to sponsor the Grapplethon please visit http://www.justgiving.com/originmmaacademy . Any donation no matter how small is greatly appreciated and it is going to a worthy cause.

 

Thank you 

 

GrappleThon auction update - Thank you Battle Gear!

Special thanks to the guys at Battle Gear who have generously donated a large selection of their fantastic BJJ apparel for the charity GrappleThon auction.  Battle Gear are a UK based company who specialise in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Gi's and related apparel. To find out more about this awesome company check out their website http://www.battlegearbjj.com/ .

All items will be auctioned off on the day of the GrappleThon and the proceeds will go to Kidscape.

2014 Essex Grapplethon Video

GrappleThon auction - Thank you Meerkatsu!

I just wanted to say a special thanks to Seymour Yang (aka the wonderfully talented Meerkatsu) for donating some of his highly popular BJJ apparel. Meerkatsu is a fellow BJJ practitioner, talented artist, blogger and gi reviewer. I highly recommend his website http://www.meerkatsu.com/ and blog http://meerkat69.blogspot.co.uk/ . All of these items will be auctioned off on the day and all proceeds will go to Kidscape!

If any other BJJ/fight companies would like to donate anything for the auction please get in contact. It’s really appreciated and proceeds are going to a great cause.


Thank you!

Congrats Spence!

Congratulations to Spencer Hewitt with his win at Cage Warriors!

For info about Origin MMA Academy see http://www.originmmaacademy.com/