Aberdeen University All-Round Fighting Club

Great turnout for our Tuesday wrestling session this week, where we did single legs, some defenses, and an arm triangle. Keep up the good work guys!! 🥊🥊🥊

Huge thanks to Cecil for taking our Wednesday striking session this week, including some jab crosses and some professional tomfoolery 🥊🥊

Greet turnout this week keep it up, but remember to buy your membership before the 15th of October, we will be checking at training who has them!!

What a great turnout for our first social!! Costumes were lacking, but the fun was not 👊 Thanks to everyone who came

Keep an eye out for our next social!

First social of the year!! Come join us and dress as your type on Wednesday the 8th

Best costume wins a free pint from Ms President

You can bring friends or flatmates if you’d like

See you there!! 🥊🥊🥊

Striking session number 1! 🥊 Thanks to everyone who came along

If you’re interested in joining our club, send us a message and we can talk about buying memberships 👊👊

Our first proper session back!! So good to see old faces and many new ones as well 🥊👊

I forget what SMMART this was, but this photo of two of our female fighters is one of the best. Awesome!

Thank you to all the lovely ladies who came to the girls give it a go today!! 💕💕

If you missed our give it a go’s, training is on as usual from next week Tuesday, hopefully we see you there 👊🥊

Presenting a bit of University history!

Entitled: The First Rule Of Fight Club? And written in the paper edition of the Guadie (2 March 2010), by the club's co-founder Stanislaw Swieciki. Stan (as we know him) would also go on to conceive and name SMMART (Scottish Mixed Martial Arts Rookie Tournament) - at one time one of the largest true amateur tournaments. Stan went on to be part of the script writing teams for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015), Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (2023). Incredible! Text from the article below:

"On the 11th of February 2010 the first training session of the Aberdeen University All-Around Fighting club took place. Over seventy people turned up and while the only problem was finding space for everybody, it showed us that many students are interested in training in the pragmatic martial art and that university grounds may be very promising for the fastest growing sport in the world.

But what is the ARFC?

Well there are many answers to this question: it is part of Team Jigoku one of the best MMA teams in Scotland, it is part of the International Kyokushin Budokai Kan (IBK) etc - but this doesn't really explain much to the martial arts layman.

The truth is that the core of our club is the approach to martial arts developed by our coach - Shihan (Japanese for 'grand master') Marc Howes. Shihan holds four black belts in different styles of full-contact karate and has over 30 years experience in coaching - his martial arts philosophy inspired by Kaicho Jon Bluming, of whom he is a direct student concentraces on embracing the force of pragmatism but does so without dropping the Budo - the very principles of Japanese martial arts.

That is why this is the 'All-Around Fighting Club' and not the 'MMA Club' for example Mixed Martial Arts is a conjunction a sport in which different traditions of fighting compete with one another without any restrictions in this sense it is the most appropriate challenge for any martial artist seeking universality. All-Round Fighting or Kyokushin Budokai, if you prefer, is something more than that. You can join our club regardless of what your interest is be itself defense physical prowess studying a traditional form of martial arts or competing in a more modern fighting format such as MMA tournaments our coaches have got it all.

we train at the Aberdeen Sports Village every Tuesday (7pm - 8.30pm) and Thursday (7pm - 8pm), so come by if you're interested. All you need for a start is a pair of shorts and a comfortable t-shirt. For more for more information you can visit our website at www.allroundfighting.blogspot.com or join our group on Facebook (group name: Aberdeen University All-Round Fighting Club). Also answering two of the most common questions we get: yes you can join if you're a girl, some of our coaches are female no, you don't have to be very fit to start training with us - just come to training, let us worry about your fitness.

Hit hard, roll strong."

💖Introducing our girls only give it a go session this Saturday💖

Led by our president, it’ll just be some beginner striking and a nice workout at the end. Make sure to bring plenty water and wear comfortable sports clothes

If you have any questions don’t hestitate to message this account, see you on Saturday ladies!! ✨✨

What a great turn out!! Thank you to everyone who came to our give it a go, we hope you enjoyed it 👊

Out next training session is Tuesday next week, make sure to get to that for more information on memberships and training sessions

And don’t forget the girls only give it a go this Saturday, more info to be released ✨💖

Our first give it a go! 🥊🥊🥊

Make sure to come along and try MMA with us, open to all skill levels, whether you’re a total beginner looking for a change, or a seasoned professional wanting to train for your next competition

If you have any questions about this event or anything else to do with our society, don’t hesitate to get in touch ⭐️

Keep a look out for more upcoming events on our page