Sunday, July 29, 2012

TRIQUEST MMA Goes to Foshan

Sometimes the smallest pebbles dropped into a sea can cause ripples that reach far and wide. Triquest MMA Hong Kong's Coach Thomas Fan, the HKCMMA Association President and Founding Member, has been making forays into South China gyms to introduce MMA. This past weekend, organized by Mark Houghton, he took a group of students to Foshan's Fo Men Wu Guan, where they practice traditional Chinese kung fu, sanda, and Muay Thai. It is an extremely delicate effort, as traditional schools in China think of visiting schools as challengers, not ambassadors.


After Bernard took a bit of enthusiastic pummeling by the Foshan boys, Coach Thomas and the students gave a short introduction on MMA takedowns, the differences in Thai versus MMA clinches, establishing position on the ground, and basic submissions.



Thomas explained to them that with the explosion of MMA in Asia, and the opportunities growing in China such as Legend FC (of which he is Head Referee), RUFF, and the many MMA competitions springing up, expanding their fighting skills will give them greater opportunities for success. China has a throwing art, Shuai Jiao, and is well-conditioned in Judo, however ground fighting is still seen as somewhat demeaning and dishonorable. The more they are exposed to it, hopefully the less these conditioned beliefs will be retained.


 A very big thanks to Thomas Fan for tirelessly promoting the sport of MMA even in the smallest of corners.

Monday, July 9, 2012

1ST HK + SZ CUP BJJ COMPETITION

The first ever Hong Kong and Shenzhen BJJ tournament was organized for last weekend.  Coach Thomas along with Victor and Andy organized a team from TRIQUEST to attend.  It was a very good way for our guys to gain some experience and exciting to see the level of BJJ in Shenzhen grow.  Thomas was happy to say that the Shenzhen club students are really motivated and train hard; their work ethic is good and their spirit is strong.  From Hong Kong, our friends at HKJJ and Coach Makoto Aramaki also brought a group to compete.  Let's continue to support growing BJJ regionally by getting even bigger teams to compete in the future!


Monday, April 30, 2012

Andy Chan's Radio Interview

Check out our Kali Instructor Andy Chan with host Chung (also our BJJ brother) on his radio talk show!


Krav Maga Public Transport Seminar - May 19th

Joseph Lee says: "Check out the next Krav Maga Seminar - Public Transport System. 19th May 2012. Seminar will take place on an actual bus to simulate a realistic training environment!! Find out what techniques work and what doesn't in a confined space. People always talk about it...In Krav Maga...we actually Do it!"

Contact Big Joe or sign up via the Facebook events page.

Here's Amnon Darsa showing students how to manage security situations in airports, airplanes and public transport.


1st Asian Region Instructor's Course for Krav Maga for Children!

September 15th - 19th.
Contact Big Joe, TRIQUEST's resident Krav Maga Instructor, for more details!


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Krav Maga classes at TRIQUEST - Useful and fun!

Big Joe says: "Krav Maga P1 Class at TRIQUEST MMA & Fitness Academy on 2012-4-24... Awesome class tonight!  and everyone getting stuck in and giving it some.. and then some! Good work guys & girls!

 

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Australian International School Outreach

As part of TRIQUEST MMA's commitment to bettering lives through the martial arts, Master Thomas and Coach Andy were honored to participate in the Australian International School of Hong Kong's "Martial Arts and Service Activity Week".  The tenth through twelfth year students were given instruction  in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and self defense by our capable team.  TRIQUEST MMA deeply appreciates being involved with martial arts at the tertiary level.  Thomas continues to teach in Hong Kong schools and And regularly conducts seminars.  As more opportunities open up for youths to compete at the amateur level in combat sports, we will be happy to see more of these students joining our team.


Thank you for the opportunity, AISHK!  Here is the wonderful note of appreciation sent to us:

Dear Thomas and Andy,

Thanks for being a part of such a fantastic week for the kids. Please see the students’ report on their experience below.  I have also attached a photo from the session.  We hope to do it again next year.

Cheers
Benjamin Dell
Head of HSIE 7-12
Australian International School Hong Kong
www.aishk.edu.hk

STUDENT REPORT

During activity week a group of keen Year 10, 11 and 12 students set out to various locations around Hong Kong to discover our inner Bruce Lees. Each day we trained at different gyms and were instructed by masters and several former and current world champions. We gained new skills and insights into a number of different martial arts, each having their own unique fighting style and philosophy.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Kali Seminar - May 12-13

Contact Andy Chan at kylinbjj@yahoo.com.hk for details!


Monday, January 23, 2012

MING on RTHK's Kung Fu Quest!

Ming is one of our very technical Kali coaches at TRIQUEST.  He's also a celebrated martial arts novelist, which makes him somewhat of a local celebrity.  He was one of the participants chosen to explore different indigenous martial arts around Asia for RTHK's "Kung Fu Quest".  Here's the trailer for the show!  The first airing is on January 28th.

You can watch past episodes of Kung Fu Quest on the RTHK website here.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Ken on RTHK's "Kung Fu Quest"!

I logged onto Yahoo! and there was the ad on the front page, go Ken!  You can watch it on February 21 at 7:30pm.

You can go straight to the RTHK website listing here.  Check out the screencap!