Good Luck to Peter Robinson

All at Team Phoenix are wishing Team Phoenix Instructor Peter "Peaches" Robinson the best of British as he tackles the Lightning 12 off road endurance run on Sunday. The Lightning 12 is a 10km circuit through the woodland and hill lined setting of Malvern hills. Pete will be running this grueling circuit for 12 solid hours! We at Phoenix know he will prevail and best all his personal challenges as Pete is super strong in mind and will never quit.
This run among many others is in preparation for Petes ultimate challenge of doing the Marathon des Sables in 2011. This is a 6 day 151 mile marathon across the Sahara desert and is considered the toughest foot race on the face of the earth.
If you would like to sponsor Pete for his Marathon des Sables please contact Team Phoenix.
All the best Peaches!

Bad Company Clinch and Elbows workshop

Bad Company Workshop 13th March 2010

Today, myself (Maz), Matt, John, Iain and Gary headed down to Bad Company Gym in Leeds as the fantastic Richard Smith was putting on a 3-hour clinch and elbow workshop.

The 3 hours flew by which is always a good sign. We worked mainly on the 3 basic footwork steps and turns and throws in the clinch and timing and positioning. Having trained privately with Richard for a few years now, we had briefly touched on some of the stuff before but there was loads of new techniques and just enough time to get the hang of each one properly.

I really hope Richard and Lisa put on more of these workshops!

NFL Show, Newcastle

NFL Show, 12th December 2009

Team Phoenix MMA fighter Chris Douglass took a little break from his usual MMA activites, to try his hand at stand-up and fought on the NFL show held at Newcastle University, fighting Pro K1-Rules 3 x 3minute rounds.

Chris is a grappler (and a very good one) and has always had doubts about testing himself in pure stand-up, but he handled the fight very well, pushing his opponent back constantly with punches and keeping the pressure on throughout.

There was a little controversy about the points decision as it went to Chris’s opponent Juan and many people there thought that Chris had done enough to take it. We personally felt a draw would have been the correct decision, however taking nothing away from Juan at all who was very tough. It was good matchmaking from Mr. Jose!

MSA Muay Thai Premier League Bolton

Muay Thai Premier League Show, Reebok Stadium, Bolton 7th November 2009

We had the pleasure of watching Liam Harrison take on yet another Top Thai, Saketdao at the MSA Muay Thai Premier League show at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton. Also on the card was Saenchai V Rob Storey, Andy Howson V Rungraeeve Sasiprapa, Jordon Watson V Stephen Meikle and a heap of other talented top English fighters.

These shows are going to set the standard for Thai Boxing in the UK and are going to get bigger and better every time. The next one is scheduled for March 2010 at the M.E.N arena in Manchester and headlining will be Liam Harrisons rematch with Anuwat Keuwsamrit.

It was a real honour to see Saenchai fighting in England again for the second time this year.