What's new 

Septmber 2007 - New belts at AFS
The following team members have been promoted in September 2007... Congratulations everyone

Steve Haydock - Black Belt
David Lucas - Brown Belt
Ben Rees - Purple Belt
Jamil Souroji - Purple Belt
Dave Pawan - Purple Belt
Matt "The Hammer" Peters - Purple Belt

June 2007 - SENI success
Jamil Sorougi took Gold in his weight class blue belt BJJ competition without have a single point scored against him.

Sam Gibson takes bronze in his weight category (actually the weight category above). 

May 2007 - Bristol Open Sucess
Jamil Sorougi and Dave Pawan take double gold. Sam Gibson picks up a bronze

May 2007 - New Belts at AFS
The following team members have been promoted during the first quarter of 2007... Congratulations everyone

Tim Murray - Purple Belt
Steve Gibson - Purple Belt
Sophie Hodge - Blue Belt

Tournament successes throughout 2006
2006 has been a great year for the competition team with medals in SENI, The Bristol Open, Urban Gorillas submission grappling tournament to name but a few. Huge congratulations to the following team members who have picked up a number of golds, silvers and bronzes throughout the year.

Jamil Sorougi
Dave Pawan
Tim Murray
Sam Gibson
Jez Lozbey

New links to videos of training sessions at AFS
The links below will take you to videos of live sparring of club members... enjoy!

Training clip 1
Training clip 2
Training clip 3
Training clip 4
Training clip 5

July 2006 - Steve Haydock recieves his brown belt and David Lucas his purple belt from Roberto Atalla

June 2006 - More competition success for the AFS Team
Three fighters from the AFS team took 5 medals in the 1st Bristol Open. Jamil Sorougi and Dave Pawan taking double gold in their weight category and gold and bronze respectively in the open weight. Jez Lozbey also successfully took bronze in his weight category. 

June 2006 - SENI success
Jamil Sorougi took Gold in his weight class BJJ competition and bronze in the novice submission grappling competition. 

May 2005 - FIGHT NIGHT RESULTS - A Successful Night for the AFS Team
On the 15 May 2005 three fighters fought in amateur rules shoot fights in Exeter. All three fighters successfully defeated their opponents.

Tim Murray - won by judges decision having been the more agressive of the two fighters. Tim scored a number of takedowns including a single leg to inside leg trip and dominated his opponent with a series of knees from the neck clinch and strikes on the ground.

John Aina - gained the unanimous judges decision by dominating his opponent with superior striking skills throughout the fight. The highlight of which was the brutal Thai kick to the thigh which took his opponents legs out from underneath him, dropping him un ceremoniously to the canvas.

Jay Gallup - submitted his opponent with a triangle choke in the first round. Jay successfully defended a double leg attempt by sprawling ontop of his opponent. Jay then proceeded to take guard and finish his opponent.

An excellent night for the whole team and big congratulations to the fighters. Thanks again to those who made the 3 hour trip to support the guys!!!  Watch this space as fight clips will be posted onto the site.

Pictured with Dave and Steve (far left and right) the winners Tim, John and Jay.














May 2005 - Body weight exercises added to the download section

March 2005 - Richard Killick interviews Dave and Steve for SFUK. The full interview can be read by clicking here