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▣ It's on! Gerald 'Gee' Javier gets back into the ring
Friday, February 24th marks the day it begins. One man’s quest to develop into the greatest flyweight contender the UFC has ever seen. Developing his hands and grappling over the years, Gerald Javier was well known on the local amateur New Jersey Muay Thai scene, opponents often would shy away from stepping into the ring with ‘lil bomb.’ However, his tutelage never helped him expand to find himself outside of the New Jersey local fight scene, little was known of Javier. After a recent shift in training camps, moving from KRU Muay Thai in Bergenfield, NJ where he got a great start to his career to the camp at EDGE Hoboken, Javier has found the opportunity to expand his training partners and finally open him up to the competition that he has been searching for.
Learning and perfecting his wrestling for MMA under head coach David Esposito and perfecting his Jiu Jitsu under David Branch has found the extra tools the native New Jersey MMA Fighter needs to break into the upper echelons of the fight game. Training with NJMMA and EDGE Bellator fighter Claudio Ledesma, Wreslting with 125lb NCAA Div 1 Wrestler, Brandon Kinney, and grappling with UFC Veteran Phillipe Nover has lead Javier to feel the confidence he needs to step back into the cage.
With new and talented sparring partners abound, look for 2012 to be the year that will let Gerald reach his true potential. America please welcome Gerald Javier. First up, 2-0 New York Sambo opponent.
Ticket Info:
Combat at the Capitale, Friday February 24th, 2012
130 Bowery Street (China Town, NYC)
$35.00 at EDGE, see Marsh (limited supply of tickets)
Team Social to follow event Leaving EDGE at 7:15pm for venue FRIDAY FEB 24th
Classes will be adjusted to a 6-7pm Open Mat so students can attend this event!
▣ UFC: Closer to the EDGE Promo
A documentary is in the works for following the dedication of athletes in the UFC, Mixed Martial Arts and what drives them to suceed..a look into their backgrounds as amatuer wrestlers and the push for pure sucess in their sports and lives. This trailer gives us chills, "Closer to the EDGE." Watch.
Many of New Jerseys, Weehawkin, Jersey City, Union City, North Bergen, Kearny, Newark, Rahway, Hudson County's young wrestlers are getting started today at EDGE Hoboken to chase their dreams as sucessful individuals; on and off the mat.
▣ EDGE MMA: Street Kings Energy
Street Kings energy is looking to make their way into MMA promotions and headed to the best spot on the East Coast in Hobokne New Jersey to get in contact with tons of top athletes from many UFC, MMA, and other training gyms, EDGE Wrestling and MMA in Hoboken, New Jersey. Street Kings VJ, Lilly, intros a quick video that captures shadow boxing of our intro Muay Thai class- Any of our EDGE Mixed Martial Arts students see themselves?. Finishing with a shot of EDGE Hoboken Wrestling newcomer about to make his UFC Debut after the Ultimate Fighter season, Akira Corissani. Clip Below:
▣ Clean up your Diet
Lately a number of athletes have been asking me questions about how to create a proper diet, how to diet for tournaments and weight cuts and how to lean out. In essence the inquiries have been coming in because you want to start eating healthier. I mean, you're training 4-5 days a week- why not supplement it with correct eating to see your results go through the roof?
My former team mate and Michigan Wolverine owns and operates Crossfit810 over in Flint, Michigan and has written a blog series on eating "normal". The premise is very simple actually, if something is natural and grows in nature- it likely is good for you. If something is processed or laden with preservatives and dyes, packaged heavily- it likely is bad for you...fitting right?
Joe Degain has done a great job of transitioning the knowledge he learned while competing in college wrestling into a successful crossfit business... Crossfit workouts are essentially college athletic workouts for wrestling and football turned public.. For you grappling enthusiasts there is no better place to tailor your diet from than this man. This will be the first of a multipart series in which we will help you develop your diet to fit your athletic needs.
To get a jump start on your deit and get some extra reading in before next weeks article, the Nadolski family (a family of high level wrestlers) of LeanerLiving.com tell you about the true food pyramid you should be following. Fresh, and more Fresh!
▣ Edge MMA: ----- FREE TRIAL WEEK ------
Edge MMA offers a free trail week of training in our Unlimited training program- This is the perfect opportunity for beginners to get a chance to get your feet wet in MMA and see if this type of training is what you are looking for. Call today to schedule your one-on-one orientation oppointment with one of our head instructors. (Oreintation is 30 minutes before your first class, your coach will take you through the basic positions and techniques of that art, you so you are comfortable right from the start of your frist workout! )
▣ Groupon: Edge Feature- Five of Ten Classes
Heather practices her Muay Thai striking technique without actually hitting Duane ( who shoould be slipping her cross! )
Edge MMA Hoboken will be featured on groupon.com, the worlds largest deal website, starting December 1st- We are partnering with them to run a holiday campaign that offers new students the option to purchase a package of 5 or 10 classes. The packages allows you to attend any of our offered disciplines including Muay Thai Kickboxing, Jiu Jitsu, wrestling, MMA and Boxing in the intro level. Orientation appointments must be scheduled for new students wishing to redeem their groupon feature. Your Orientation Appointment will consist of a 30 minute introduction to the Edge program with one of our staff. They will show you around the facility and let you know what to expect from classes and training. Please call ahead to schedule appointment.
Welcome to Edge Grouponers!
Deal Ended December 4th- but please call the gym to find out what other offers we have going on! We can help you find a package to get your training started! And for those that got the deal while it lasted, see you soon!
▣ Ernie Monaco, what the World Team means for NJ Youth
Watch more video of World Team Camp at the Edge Hoboken on flowrestling.org
▣ UFC Champ, Frankie Edgar hosting seminar at Edge
Update: The even was great, with over 60 students attending- Thanks Frankie!
Some of his phenominal technique video to come on our YouTube page!
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Frankie Edgar found himself on the losing end of a first round title fight against Gray Maynard. Twice. Getting battered and beaten until it looked as though the champs reign was over. Then came round 2, and all was forgotten. Frankie is going to show you the techniques, and tell you the stories about how he got through both title fights. His game plan, and how you can apply it to your MMA arsenal. Dana White knows this secret, that's why he loves him, Dave Esposito helped him develop it, they spar...Now is your chance, as he is hosting a seminar on the shores of the Hudson River at Edge Hoboken MMA! Frankie will be instructing you in hour of technique, and signing whatever you bring the man to ink up with his sharpie, and complete the tail of Frankie 'the answer' Edgar. Train with the champ, this is your chance to figure out what 'The Answer' is!
Don't forget to invite your friends, they want to know 'the answer,' too!
Click image to go to ticket leap, or order below!
Frankie Edgar Edge MMA Seminar
Edge MMA Hoboken, New Jersey
7pm Registration- Pre-Registration available through Ticket Leap
Pre-Register: $50 for non-Edge Students, Edge MMA Students and Edge Students friends inquire in class for your special rate ($60.00 on-site registration)
7:30pm Event Start, One Hour
▣ USA WORLD/ OLYMPIC TEAM training at Edge
November 14th - November 20th the United State world and Olympic Team will be training at Edge MMA Hoboken in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. The team is staying here in Hoboken and working out twice a day at Edge with the Mongolian World Team. This is a great opportunity for the local community, as well as upcoming wrestlers and MMA athletes to see how the top level trains.
Details:
40 of the United State best Wrestlers and Coaches
6 of Russia, Mongolia, and Canada's best wrestlers
Media Day: Tuesday November 15th, 12pm-3pm Edge Hoboken (contact David Esposito- 201-918-1168 for info)
Public Workout: Open World Team Workout for public viewing Tuesday November 15th, 5:30pm-7:30pm Edge Hoboken
World Team Wrestling Technique Clinic/Funraiser: Open for all ages and skill levels, Saturday November 19th, 2pm-4pm Edge Hoboken (to register please email edgehoboken@gmail.com)
▣ David Branch: Video- Lift and Return
Earlier this month David Branch was featured twice on Sherdog.com's Technique of the Week. Here Dave demontrates a lift he learned wrestling with Edge head Wrestling coach Dave Esposito. This same move was used against our friend and student Daniel Gracie in his October Bellator 54 fight.
David Branch of Edge Hoboken New Jersey MMA.
▣ Frankie Edgar: Heart to the Top
In what seems to be a unique overture of fights, Frankie Edgar ( www.frankieedgar.com ) has not only proven to be the UFC champion, but that he has something special to reach the top. The guy has heart. For the second consecutive fight after only the first round he found himself almost without his UFC title belt. A powerful Gray Maynard unleashed some devastating right hooks and uppercuts on Frankie and nearly dropped the UFC champion to the mat for good. But with every hard blow Frankie willfully pushed through the MMA fight to regain his control and mental awarness. Squeeking through the first round and into the second on his mental toughness.
Entering the second round is where Frankie started to gain his stride, moving his feet and head well he created just enough offense of his own to keep Maynard and his devastating strikes at bay. The momentum was shifting.
Frankie Edgar walks away from a stunned Gray Maynard as he celebrates his UFC title defense.
In the third Frankie started to believe in something he knew all too well, something he trains regularly with Edge Owner and MMA and wrestling coach Dave Esposito, Wrestling. Frankie started to open up his single leg shots, slipping underneath the rights of Maynard and into one, two, three single leg attempts. While not taking Maynard down, the attempts may have seemed in vain to a regular observer of the fight. However, leg attacks were a vital part of Frankies strategy. Attack the legs to keep Maynard honest so he couldn't continue to throw haymakers and use his size and weight advantage in the standup department. What this allowed Frankie to do was slow Maynard's striking and keep him thinking that he couldn't open up as much with his combos or Frankie was sure to take him down. From this, Edgar began to pick apart a stationary and seemingly frozen Maynard with his jab and then quick combos ending by stepping out of the pocket. When Maynard would enter the pocket and look to land a combination Edgar would go underneath and push for the single leg. Soon Maynard was hesitant to step in and look for his combinations as he knew Frankie could get in on his legs.
Heart allowed Frankie Edgar to get through the first round of both his title defenses against Gray Maynard, who coincidentally holds the only loss on Frankies MMA record (a 2008 non-title fight). Without that heart, Frankie may have found himself without his belt. He continued strong into the second and third rounds where he got his game plan in motion and outwrestled who many consider the better wrestler. Frankie finished strong with a KO in the fourth. Congrats Champ, see you at the Edge in November for your seminar and night out in Hoboken!
▣ Intro Kickboxing Class added at Edge MMA Hoboken
Lately we have been looking to supplement our Monday Boxing and Sunday Pro/Amateur Muay Thai Kickboxing classes with another striking class. Our UFC Edge MMA Combat Team practice is taught by Kevin Mulhall, but for those looking to learn the sport and get a start in Kickboxing we have added a beginner kickboxing class. Edge Hoboken MMA will be adding an Introductory kickboxing class to our Wednesday night Schedule. Wednesday offerings now include 6:30pm Brazilian Jiu Jitsu taught by David Branch, and a 7:45pm Kickboxing class taught by Gee Jay. Gee has 11 years of Kickboxing experience, and has been coaching an elite team of kickboxers for 4 years. He brings his Kickboxing skills to Edge MMA Hoboken in an instructional sense, and also looks to perfect his Wrestling and BJJ to make a career in MMA and the UFC's new 125lb Flyweight Division. We want to welcome Gee to our family, and are glad to provide him a home to train at. Welcome to the Edge MMA Hoboken Combat Team Gerald!
New Wednesday Schedule as of Oct 18:
6:30 Edge MMA Hoboken: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
7:45 Edge MMA Hoboken: Intro Muay Thai Kickboxing
▣ Ledesma takes Decision in Bellator debut
Claudio Ledesma made his Bellator MMA debut at Bellator 54 in Atlantic City; defeating Brian Kelleher who was previously ranked the #2 fighter in the Northeast not in UFC or Strikeforce. Ledesma controlled the fight with his superior stand-up and wrestling, keeping the fight standing for most of the bout while also securing 7 takedowns!
Result: Dominating decision in a 30-27 victory. Ledesma is now 5-2 professionally
Jeff Marsh Edge MMA Wrestling Coach and New Jersey MMA Fighter Claudio Ledesma after his Bellator 54 win in Atlantic City, New Jersey!
▣ Hard Starting: Claudio Ledesma's Fight Camp
In early September Claudio was reeling of a couple weeks of light, but technical training. Not pushing his body and wanting to focus on technique, uncertain of when he would be taking his next MMA fight. Practicing his Jiu Jitsu, improving his wrestling, and tightening up his striking were his main focus. Then the call came, he got an offer he felt he couldn't refuse, to fight in Bellator 54. The start of reaching a lifelong training goal, the chance to compete in one of Mixed Martial Arts biggest arenas, this time in his home state of New Jersey. MMA had been his passion, this was his chance to grow a true tale for father to pass to son, he felt he had made it. Time to prepare.
Step into camp. Ladesmas fight camp began with what many east coasters would like to call Floodicane Irene. Although the storm itself didn't present to much wind damage- the floods that followed swallowed up many homes in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. The day fight camp was scheduled to begin I recieved a text from Claudio "I probably can't make training tonight...my living room is under 7 feet of water." And with that it began. Claudio delayed the start of his training by four days, moved his wife and son to a rental unit while their house was assesed and repaired in the meantime. The outcome? Claudio is looking at over a year before the up and coming New Jersey MMA fighter can return to the house he once called home.
The Neighborhood in which Cladio Ledesma lived before Irene Flooded him out of his house in September.
Another image of Edge MMA Combat Fighters house only a Month before his Bellator Debut
A sign that reads family sits above Claudio Ledesmas flooded living room, the water had gone down 7 feet when this photo was taken.
An Image inside the home of Edge Hoboken MMA fighter Claudio Ledesma after Irene.
This was once Claudios personal training area in his garage, now covered in water and all his equipment destroyed.
What shown quickly about Claudio and his work ethic, was that throughout the loss of his house during Hurricane Irene- he was always calm and looking to train. He never seemed like someone who had just lost his house, and essentially everything in it. Unbelievable is his attitude on life and towards training.
▣ Claudio Ledesma fights for Edge in Bellator 54!
Edge Hoboken athlete and NJMMA fighter Claudio Ledesma has signed a deal with the Bellattor Fighting Championships to fight in Atlantic City, NJ on October 15th in the Bellator 54 event. Ledesma, a New Jersey native, has been training MMA for 5 years and currently holds his purple belt under Renzo Gracie, training at the Denville Renzo Gracie Academy in Denville, NJ. And putting it all together at New Jersey MMA with Garrett Goldsberry. Ledesma has been regularly training at Edge in our Combat Team workouts and training one on one to improve his wrestling prowess and takedown skills. Ledesma is looking forward to putting his new found wrestling technique to the test against Bomb Squad fighter Brian Kelleher in three weeks.
▣ Phillipe Nover: Edge Combat Team fights August 20th
Phillipe Nover will be making his return to the ring against former Purdue wrestler and NCAA Qualifier Jake Murphy. Good luck to Phillipe on his re-debut fight- and his way back to the top of the UFC!
- Start of Main Card: Saturday 08.20.2011 at 06:00 PM ET
- U.S. Broadcast:
- Name: HFC 8: Triple Main Event
- Promotion: Hoosier Fight Club
- Ownership: Hoosier Fight Club
- Venue: Porter County Expo Center
- Location: Valparaiso, Indiana
Phillipe talks about all the work he has put in on his wrestling with Dave Esposito and Edge Hoboken MMA and Wrestling. You also get to know a little about what has been going on in his life
▣ Phillipe Nover to Fight MMA bout August 20th vs Jacob Murphy!
Phillipe Nover announced earlier this week that he has accepted a fight to make his return the the MMA arena on August 20th vs. former Purdue wrestler and NCAA Qualifier Jacob Murphy. The bout will take place in the Boilermakers home state of Indiana. Coach Jeffrey Marsh commented on the fight "having wrestled Murphy several times while I was at Michigan, I'm confident in our ability to put a solid game plan together for Phil in this fight. He is excited to come back and has been training nonstop. No one is really sure when, or if, Phillipe sleeps- Nurse by night, fighter by day- the guy is an animal. Look for a couple of press releases on Phillipe in the near future."
▣ Icelandic Champ, Nelson, trains for ADCC 2011
As the Abu Dabi Jiu Jitsu championships approach in the next several months, more and more competitors are ramping up their training. Last week Gunner Nelson was over from Iceland, working out at Renzo Gracie BJJ in Manhattan and training his wrestling skills over in Hoboken at Edge Hoboken. Working with another Abu Dabi 2011 competitor and Edge Hoboken regular Jerry Reynaldi. The duo trained with Jamal and Jarred Patterson as well as head Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA coach David Branch during one of our Edge Competition Team private sparring sessions. These sessions are available to access for viewing and rolling to our students who are part of our Edge Hoboken MMA Combat Team.
We are training some of the best grapplers and fighters in the North East and love to share their knowledge with our students.
▣ Phillipe Nover making a comeback?
On June 10th, Phillipe Nover entered the ring for the first time in over a year. What began as a promising career for the young mixed martial artist was abruptly stopped with the fracture of several vertibrae in his upper back; Nover made the decision to announce an early retirement from MMA with a high level career in Nursing already on his plate. But, alas the itch to compete was still within Nover's blood, and he felt a burning desire to win bouts. Training with boxing and Muay Thai coach Jason Strout at Church Street Boxing Nover was looking to start his climb back into contention. Nover decided that his best segue back into Mixed Martial Arts was to pick up a Muay Thai fight in the Friday Night Fights promotion in New York. Phil is an Edge Hoboken Fight Team Athlete and held to his promise to himself of making a strong comeback into MMA with a first round KO of Anthony Ford just over a minute in. Where does the road to MMA take Phil next? Is he looking to get back in the Cage and pick up where he left off? If I had to make guess work out of this, I would say Phil isn't training Wrestling as well as Bjj to stick to only the standup game.
▣ UFC Matt Brown to fight Jon Howard-
From coast to coast Matt Brown has been training where he feels he can gain the best advantage he can, migrating from Seattle then home to Columbus Matt has found himself on the east coast for the past two weeks. Knowing fair well that his striking is the strongest part of his game Brown decided to visit NYC and train his grappling. Matt was in preparation for his fight with Rich Attonito when the bout was switched to the Main Card UFC fight with Jon Howard. Brown decided the best place in the Manhattan area to work on his grappling and take downs in the weeks prior to his fight? Edge Hoboken. Many of our students got the chance to watch Matt train just a few days prior to taking the ring in the big stage. Look for Matt to come out swinging on Saturday.
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