New catch wrestling class in Wigan

[mred]

Gents for anyone that is interested Shane Rigby is now teaching Catch/submision wrestling classes at Fighting For Fitness in Golborne:

www.wigan-mma.com/schedule/

The Classes are tuesday 7 - 8, wed 8 - 9ish (takedown drills) and thursday 8 - 9ish and cost £6 per session. Andy Aspinall is also teaching a No Gi JiuJitsu class tuesday 8 - 9ish and Gi Jiu JItsu Friday at 8.

For those that dont know Shane he has been wrestling for 25 years and was taught catch by Roy Wood, he has trained and fought in Japan with fighters such as Sakuraba and Gary Albright. He was one of the original members of Atherton Submission Wrestling Club and has also achieved the following:

Junior Bronze in British Judo Championships.
Gold medal in North West Judo Championships.
English and British Wrestling Champion.
2 Silver medals in the Commonwealth Games.
British Grand Prix silver medal.
Austrian Open silver medal
Member of Great Britain Olympic Wrestling Team.
Sports scholarship to America.


Andy Aspinall is a BJJ Brown Belt and is the Jiu Jitsu coach for Kaobon and his excellent reputation is known to most on these on these boards. So get yourselves down!

[KJ Gould]

Thanks a lot for posting, I'll move this to the Catch Gym forum.I know of Shane Rigby yes, I believe he knows Kamal Shalrous very well and they trained catch and wrestling together when Kamal was based in the UK. Kamal represented Great Britain at the Olympics in Freestyle wrestling and placed 5th in the world for his weight class.

[mred]

Nice one!! Small world isn't it, will mention this to him when I see him, whereabouts are you mate?

[KJ Gould]

I'm in the South East, in Kent.

[mred]

Ok, whats the training like down there? Any decent clubs?

[KJ Gould]

Not really no. Even BJJ is scarce. I'd have to move into the city for anything decent, like London Shootfighters.

[mred]

Thats shit mate, hopefully this board will take off and there will be some like minded training partners for ya lol!

[gesticullate]

I hope it does as well but you always got to put in the footwork to make it popular. Relying on what little traffic sherdog's grappling forum gets will just lead to the board fizzling out.

[KJ Gould]

Yeah I know. I'm trying to decide whether to get a proper url as catchwrestlingunited.proboards.com is a bit of a mouthful.

[warcatch]

Trying to get over to this next Tuesday, just gotta work out public transport but shouldn't be a problem.

KJ, what part of Kent are you in? I've just moved up from Chatham.

[KJ Gould]

Sept 9, 2010 17:59:36 GMT -5 warcatch said:

Trying to get over to this next Tuesday, just gotta work out public transport but shouldn't be a problem.

KJ, what part of Kent are you in? I've just moved up from Chatham.

I'm between Ashford and Maidstone, essentially. I'm trying to sort stuff out to move to or nearer London but it's a slow process and I've got a lot of stuff to take care off.

[gesticullate]

Listen, the south east isn't as shit as the north, and we all know that. move to the big city bruv.

[KJ Gould]

Sept 9, 2010 22:01:52 GMT -5 gesticullate said:

Listen, the south east isn't as shit as the north, and we all know that. move to the big city bruv.

I didn't say SE was shit just if you're in a rural area, no matter where you are, your options are going to be limited.

[warcatch]

I feel you on that. I gave up moving to London after months of no luck on the job/house front. Seems you have to compete for every little scrap there. I'm in St Helens now which is definitely an adequate substitute given the wrestling heritage of this area.
Have you been to any of the Carlson BJJ classes in Ashford/Tonbridge?

[KJ Gould]

I think I went to one once, but this would have been a year or two back. I also had to borrow a gi with blue trousers and a small white jacket that wouldn't close.