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Greg Swanson 3 of 3.MPG smithfieldmma 157 views Greg Swanson, Judo blackbelt, Sambo instructor, and BJJ practitioner, conducts a takedown and grappling workshop at Rhode Island Combat Club.
Greg Swanson 2 of 3.MPG smithfieldmma 75 views Greg Swanson, Judo blackbelt, Sambo instructor, and BJJ practitioner, conducts a takedown and grappling workshop at Rhode Island Combat Club.
Greg Swanson Workshop 1 of 3.MPG smithfieldmma 166 views Greg Swanson, Judo blackbelt, Sambo instructor, and BJJ practitioner, conducts a takedown and grappling workshop at Rhode Island Combat Club.
Greg Swanson Highlights.MPG smithfieldmma 39 views Greg Swanson, Judo blackbelt, Sambo instructor, and BJJ practitioner, conducts a takedown and grappling workshop at Rhode Island Combat Club.
Legs only guard pass.MPG smithfieldmma 156 views Rhode Island Combat Club students working a "legs-only" guard pass defense during the warm-up. Students were only allowed to use their legs to hold the opponent away from ...
Knife Sparring.MPG smithfieldmma 111 views RI Combat Club student Matt King (gray shorts) and Group Leader John Robinso (red shorts) working some hand sparring with the knives.
Ryan's first NAGA tournament smithfieldmma 363 views Ryan Sowinski's first NAGA grappling tournament, lost on points, but fought very aggressively.
Smithfield MMA Training Class - Jan 10 2010.MPG smithfieldmma 183 views The class at Smithfield MMA working their stand-up, clinch work, and some ground skills, and having fun! We are an authorized Performance Group under Burton Richardson' JK...
Smithfield MMA training Class --- the BIG GUYS! smithfieldmma 181 views Wednesday night class, looks like the snow kept most everyone home, but not the BIG GUYS! They came out and had a great class, some pad drills, some sparring, some clinch ...
George Katsaras' MMA Debut.MPG smithfieldmma 728 views Smithfield MMA fighter George Katsaras makes his MMA debut at the AFO/MMA (afomma.com) at the Sheraton Hotel in Braintree, Mass. George wins over Jim Armato 2:52 into the ...

About Smithfield Mixed Martial Arts

Training at Smithfield MMA is one of the most affordable programs around. With a small association fee, and minimal monthly payments, in addition to low testing fees, our programs are more affordable than most others studios in the area.

No one should be denied martial arts training because of a high cost. We have programs for children and adults, and a very flexible schedule.

Email for more information, you can come down and train in one of our classes to see if it is something you would like to do.

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Smithfield Mixed Martial Arts is a Performance Training Group under Burton Richardson's JKD Unlimited / Mixed Martial Arts for the Street Association (jkdunlimited.com).

Our focus is to study self-defense from a variety of disciplines, and gear all our training towards realistic self-defense situations, as opposed to training for sport-style martial arts. While sport-oriented training is invaluable, and we do compete in various tournaments, the main drive of our training is best summed up by Guro Richardson's "Four Guiding Principles of Jeet Kune Do Unlimited."

1. WE TRAIN FIRST AND FOREMOST FOR STREET SELF-DEFENSE. We train to be effective in the street environment, then make adjustments to the training for students who wish to enter sporting competitions. Not the other way around.

2. WE TRAIN WITH PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE. A real attacker is going to resist your effort 100%. If you want to learn how to fight, you have to practice fighting against someone who is fighting back. Progressive resistance allows everyone, regardless of experience, to do this in a safe, fun training environment.

3. WE TRAIN AS COMPLETE SELF-DEFENSE ATHLETES: We train to be prepared for almost any situation: all the ranges (standing, clinch, ground), multiple opponents, weaponry and a variety of environments. We want each student to actually train in as many self-defense scenarios as possible so that if a student gets into a bad situation they already have experience in that particular situation.

4. HAVE FUN! I am planning to train for the rest of my life, and I assume that my students will do the same. If we are going to spend this much time working on developing functional skills, we should be having fun doing it. If you are training for a competition, you have to grind and do a lot of very uncomfortable and painful training. If you are training for self-defense, you should work very hard at times, but it should not be a big grind. The training sessions should be so enjoyable that we look forward to each class. Our classes in Honolulu, Hawaii are held in a very relaxed but disciplined atmosphere. Lots of laughing and joking while training hard. As Bruce Lee said, You should train seriously, but dont seriously train. Well said!

(reprinted with permission from Burton Richardson)

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