What to expect from our sessions...
At UoB MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) we strive to provide our members with quality training from professional coaches, practical self-defence skills and a fun high intensity work out. Our coaches from Team Renegade MMA are high-level professional MMA fighters and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belts, including Tom Breese and Aiden Lee, who provide world-class training sessions multiple times weekly. Sessions are suitable for both complete beginners and advanced martial artists with a wide variety of skill levels present at the club. Sparring is encouraged and takes place during most sessions, however it is not compulsory and members are welcome to sit out and watch.
Striking
Our striking sessions consist of an MMA striking style, including punches, kick, knees and elbows that incorporate elements from Muay Thai, Boxing, Karate and Taekwondo. In these sessions you will learn distance management, correct technique, footwork patterns and combinations. Most sessions will have you practicing with pads and then ending with some light sparring and conditioning.
Grappling
Our grappling sessions will have you learning the fundamentals of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as well as Greco-Roman and Freestyle Wrestling, taught by Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belts are and experienced wrestlers. Most sessions will consist of learning and practicing different techniques with a partner, before finishing with positional and full sparring.
Sparring
Our favorite day of the week is our sparring session, giving you an opportunity to test out all the techniques you've learned from the strikng and grappling sessions in full contact striking, grappling and full MMA sparring where the two are combined! Sparring is kept light and playful, creating an environment where fighters can try out new techniques and are not afraid to get hurt.
Women's MMA
Each week we also run a womens only session taught by highly skilled female coaches. This is a good place for women who may be intimidated by MMA, to give it a go in a safe environment where they can recieve more attention from the coaches and help each other gain confidence. These sessions will cover the basics of mixed martial arts as a whole, as well as providing practical self defence skills. This is far from the only place for women in our club however. Women are encouraged to attend all of our sessions throughout the week, as we hope to increase the amount of women participating in our sport.
Session Prices
Each session will cost £2/hour and after the taster sessions all participants will require membership. We pride ourselves in being one of the cheapest martial arts, sports or societies at UoB!
Fight Night
For the past two years in a row we have run a hugely successful student inter-university MMA fight night, giving oppertunities for members to experience the thrill of a full contact MMA fight! This event happens near the end of the academic year to give time for fighters to go from having never put on gloves at the start of the year to putting on a spectacle in front of a crowd of over 200 people by the end. This year we are planning to make this event even bigger and better than before so if this is something you'd be interested in participating in, this is the club for you!
Contact us!
Feel free to follow us on instagram @uob_mma, or join us on facebook: UoB MMA Society where keep up to date with all our new events! Feel free also to messgae us any queries or concerns you may have or if you are nervous before your first session we can give you some more details about wat to expect.
Email: mma@guild.bham.ac.uk
Thanks for taking the time to read our guild page, we hope to see you at a session very soon!
2023/2024 Committee members
Chair: Joseph Thompson
Secretary: Rhys Bowley
Treasurer: Alfie Luck
Captain: Kai Deb
Social Secretaries: Mali Horner & Reuben Penn
Well-being Secretaries: Adam Gilks & Libby Decesarse
Media Secretary: Kian Rowlands-Jones
A new group established in September 2017