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Team Infinite back in Japan

On August 29th, IMMAA Fighter Kate Martinez will be participating in the 2010 Girls S-Cup World Tournament in Tokyo, Japan!

This is an 8-woman SHOOTBOXING Tournament, in which one woman will win three fights in one night to become champion. Kate has been having the best camp of her fighting career and is ready to make her team and country proud!

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IMMAA Professor RODRIGO GRACIE back on the mats July 24th!

On July 24th Pride veteran, K-1 veteran, ADCC World Champion, renowned BJJ book author, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu LEGEND, and IMMAA Professor Rodrigo Gracie was back on the mats at IMMAA to teach classes and evaluate students.

The seminars were outstanding and more slick new moves were added to the Team arsenal. As always it was a great learning experience for all and an incredible opportunity for our students to connect with their instructor lineage in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu! Congratulations to all of the students promoted by Professor Gracie- lots of legit new stripes and belts at IMMAA!

Photos will be up soon!!

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Team Infinite Fighters bring home the W's from the MAIN EVENT's at Fight To Win: HEAVY HITTERS

For those that weren't there to catch the action- here is the write up on our fighters matches on F2W: Heavy Hitters!

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By J.R Gordon on www.mmabuzz.com

The softball country venue in Denver, Colorado hosted the Fight To Win promotion's Heavy Hitters show June 18, 2010. This was a mixed event with three MMA bout and the rest of the card being kickboxing matches including one women's bout.

Main event: RORY O’ FARRELL VS MICHAEL MOSER in MMA for the Fight To Win elimination heavyweight title. O' Farrell got a quick takedown into side control. From there he used his GNP to set up a transition to full mount and once on top he continued to flurry with strikes to get the title winning TKO at :43 of round one.

NICK LANEY VS NICK ANDERSON in MMA in the Co-main event. Both fighters were busy early working from the outside with strikes with each landing well with punches and kicks. Anderson tried to pull guard but Laney landed in full mount and used his GNP to set up an armbar attempt that Anderson defended until the bell sounded. Round two had each fighter landing hard shots before Laney got in a head kick that hurt Anderson. Laney then followed with a body kick that dropped Anderson. On the ground Laney landed several punches to get the TKO win at :59 of round two.

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A few notes...

For those that didn't know, Rory took this fight out of his weight class. The day before weigh in's, his opponent admitted that he couldn't make the agreed fight weight of 205lbs. Not only was he going to miss weight by a few lb's, he came in at 230 POUNDS!!! This fight was then set to be the Fight to Win Heavyweight title, as opposed to the Light Heavyweight title.

Thomas WAS slated to fight on this card. He put in a stellar camp, made weight, had his hands wrapped, and just as they were about to put the gloves on- his opponent pulled from the fight. Its very unfortunate that this happened, but in this sport it does happen... Kudos to Thomas for rolling with the punches. We will get him another match soon!!!

 All and all a great night for our Team, congrats to Nick and Rory!!!

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Team Infinite Fighter Kate M wins at ROF!

On Saturday, June 5th, the state of Colorado's biggest MMA promotion, The Ring Of Fire held its 38th instalment at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield! Kate's fight was the first professional fight on the card.

Below is the write up courtesy of Brawlin.net and J.R. Gordan.

"Martinez opened with strikes used to initiate the clinch.  Cano defended the takedown attempt, but Martinez set in a standing guillotine. 

Cano defended the choke and Martinez used head control to transition to the back, then she jumped to standing back control with the hooks in and closed off a standing RNC for the submission victory at :52 of round one.

Submission of the night goes to Kate Martinez for jumping to standing back control to set in the fight winning RNC."

For the full write up, CLICK HERE.

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Team Infinite victorious on May 22nd

Congratulations to all the Team Infinite Competitors that participated in the State Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championship! Only 10 students were able to make the road trip to the Springs- but overall IMMAA came home with 11 medals!  GREAT JOB TEAM!

Nick L secures the top triangle

Ricky J takes 3rd in Absolute

Also big congrats to Team Infinite fighter Kate Martinez, for winning her bout in dominate fashion via arm bar in the first minute of the first round! This fight was a historic first women's professional main event bout in the State of Wyoming.

Kate wins via arm bar at 1:17 of round 1

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IMMAA Professor Royce Gracie's April visit!

On Saturday, April 24th IMMAA Head Instructor Royce Gracie was back on the mats to teach classes and evaluate students! Over the weekend several seminars took place and every student in attendance gained some great new techniques and insights to the art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu directly from one of the most respected and renowned Instructors in the world or martial arts!

At the end of the seminars, Royce evaluated and promoted many IMMAA students! Lots of new stripes on white and blue belts, 6 new blue belts, 3 new purple belts, and last but not least IMMAA Instructor Adam Martinez, direct student under Royce for 14 years was promoted to brown belt!

Congratulations to all of the students promoted! One of the greatest honors in the world of martial arts is to earn rank directly under this systems founding family. While it is a notoriously more challenging road to take given the higher standards; there is no path respected equally. Royce was incredibly impressed by the technique displayed by the students at IMMAA, as our Academy is defining the art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu the way his father, Helio Gracie, meant for it to be taught.

GO TEAM INFINITE!!!

We have over 700 photos from the Royce seminars on our Academy's Flickr page!

Students that did the seminar should be sure to check out the site to get photos of themselves in action with Royce!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/infinitemmaacademy/sets/72157623812721685/

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IMMAA at Pan Ams!

April 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th the worlds largest BJJ tournament, the Pan American Championships was held in Irvine, California. Competitors flocked from all over the globe to test their Jiu-Jitsu against the worlds best- and IMMAA was on the scene again this year with two competitors.

IMMAA's Nick Laney had a great showing at the tournament, winning his first two matches via submission, but coming up short against the 81-man brackets eventual silver medalist, a Team Alliance protégé! This is a HUGE accomplishment for a 1st degree blue belt!!

IMMAA's Chief Instructor Adam Martinez won the silver medal in his division at the Pan Ams! In the final match he came up just short by a few points in a great back and forth match against last years champion. The Pan Ams is widely regarded as the highest, and most prestigious level of competition in the world of BJJ- so to take ANY medal is a great honour reserved only for the worlds best practitioners'. Congratulations to Adam for cementing his place amongst them.

IMMAA would like to thank MAXMUSCLE of Loveland for whipping Adam into competition shape for this tournament! MaxMuscle formulated a diet plan that got Adam into the best shape he's been in since his 20's. Adam went from 17% body fat to 9% body fat, he lost 9 lbs of fat and gained 2 pounds of muscle dropping from 148 lbs to 141 all within the span of SEVEN WEEKS!!! Go check out MaxMuscle in Loveland guys... they get RESULTS!

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IMMAA Chief Instructor Adam Martinez ref's the UFC!

On Sunday, March 21st UFC: Vera vs Jones lit up the First Bank Center in Broomfield and aired nationally on the VERSUS channel!

IMMAA Chief Instructor Adam Martinez was selected to referee a few of the bouts.

One of the fights he reffed will reair on Wednesday, March 24th on UFC UNLEASHED on Spike.

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Royce Gracie back at IMMAA

UFC Hall of Famer, renowned BJJ book author, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu LEGEND, and IMMAA professor Royce Gracie will be back on the mats April 24th to teach classes and evaluate students!

Three seminars will take place Saturday, April 24th.

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Kids seminar
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Beginner seminar (white belts up to three stripes)
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced seminar (4 stripe white belts and UP)

Sign up for the seminar at IMMAA's front counter!
Space is limited to 40 students per seminar- so get your name on the list TODAY!

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Fight To Win: Proving Ground RESULTS

Infinite MMA Loveland Muay Thai Kickboxing 02/19/2010 RESULTS!

Another night of dominating performances from Team Infinite at Fight To Win: Proving Ground Muay Thai Kickboxing!

Our team went 3-0, with fight of the night honors, KO of the night honors, and the highlight of successfully debuting a 16 year old female muay thai kickboxer!

Excellent work by the fighters, and great support by their team mates- lots of TEAM INFINITE shirts in the crowd!!!

Here is the write up on our fighters courtesy of JR Gordan from www.mmabuzz.com:
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Lauren Mcgunity vs Amber Duval. Mcgunity opened with a hard kicks before Duval pressed forward with punches. Mcgunity answered with a head kick and relentless combinations including knees in the clinch. For round two Mcgunity opened with a teep kick followed by a punch flurry. Knees were thrown by both in the clinch. Duval got several takedowns but Mcgunity pushed the majority of the action. Duval opened round three with strong punches before Mcgunity got the clinch to set up a flurry of knees. The round ended with a back and forth exchange. The judge's scorecards saw the winner as Lauren Mcgunity by way of unanimous decision.

Co-main event: Nick Laney vs Matt Young. All of round one was fast paced action with each fighter landing strong punches and kicks when outside and hard knees and punches when clinched. Round two saw Young trapping a teep kick to set up a sweep and after the restart there was a strong exchange of knees in the clinch. Mid-round saw Young accurate with his strikes from the outside while Laney landed power punches when in close. After a brief clinch Laney threw, and landed a powerful head kick that got him the KO win at 1:48 of round two.

Main event: Brian Scraper vs Kreg Hartel. There was a strong exchange to start the bout with relentless punches and knees while in the clinch. Mid-round saw Scraper landing a knee to the abdomen of Hartel that dropped him for an eight count. Upon the restart Scraper landed a head kick that again dropped Hartel, and that ended the round. Round two had Scraper open with a head kick, then a crescent kick, and Hartel answered with solid punches before the fighters clinched where each landed knees. After breaking Scraper again landed a solid head kick, but Hartel shook it off and landed strong knees in the clinch before Scraper again targeted the head with kicks as the round ended. Round three had strong punches from both fighters to start and the action continued with good infighting from each. Scraper was able to stun Hartel and followed with strong clinch work, but Hartel answered with hard punches. To end the bout both fighters flurried with punches to the body. The judge's cards were tallied and the winner by unanimous decision was Brian Scraper.

KO and kick of the night goes to Nick Laney for his victory by way of head kick KO at 1:48 of round one.

Fight of the night goes to Brian Scraper and Kreg Hartel for their exciting match that showcased the technical prowess, conditioning, heart and toughness of both combatants.

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IMMAA Annual Gathering!

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MaxMuscle has recently opened up a brand new Loveland Location- be sure to check them out for all your nutritional advice and supplement needs!

IMMAA students receive a 15% discount!!

www.loveland.maxmuscle.com

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