How To Find An Amateur MMA Fighter To Sponsor or How Did They Find Me!?
Funny how these thing emanate about. This isn’t Wikileaks personage, but considering there are plenty of other worthy events to chose from; lunar eclipse 2010, the winter midsummer or Sarah Palin‘s new outside adventure funfair, Omegazone seems to have stumbled upon a MMA preparation institution in need of sponsors for its upcoming MMA Amateur bouts organisation of 2011.
Was this our other Christmas bequest? Could this be our best buy of the year? Santa’s marketing section should be working overtime to subsidy the wish of good little boys and miss, instead he drops this on my lap! It all started with a simple text message, not much else really, only an ominous and dire text message, no demand for a translator! I return gelidity just conceive about it! Maybe how Ginobli feel around the UFO’s so much in the news lately.
” Interested in sponsoring fighters?
Certainly, sponsoring a MMA fighter birder or otherwise could be done, had been done by others. Just saying the formulated, had a certain cache. But, really, what did we know about that? We hadn’t explored too much in the fashion of enlarging our logo line of fightwear. So, was this really, too imperfect and way too soon? Well, since that fortuitous text this patron/fighter relationship has taken on a ghetto of IT own.
So, herb as it was, that introductory cookie has morphed into a full-of-the-moon short-winded sponsorship of an up and challenger Amateur Fighter- straight out of the bosom of Central Texas- Templeton Texas? Let’s check that out with the online yellow pages. Where’s my drive direction from map quest or do I demand to authority with United Airlines anytime soon?
Jared Luna, Ast. Coach. Training putout of Gillaspy Mixed Martial Arts (GMMA) through Central Texas Taekwondo studio. Under the tutorship of John-Michael “The Punisher” Gillaspy- Senior BJJ Instructor. Here, in an abbreviated format is Omegazone’s examination with John-Michael about GMMA, all things MMA, and his calling as a very effective grappler, par admirableness!
OZ- How did Gillaspy Mixed Martial Arts (GMMA) come about?
GMMA- GMMA came about because I love to teach, and it was a winner next backpedalled on my way to supporting my dream of being an entire time poet artist.
OZ- Why “The Punisher”?
GMMA- I hate being attempt on, and while observation me wrestle a somebody made a remark that I “punish” people for taking shots, so I idea it’d be a great call.
OZ- How are you structured for classes or individual training of potency contender of the MMA sport ?
GMMA- We have Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes which not only include BJJ but also Judo, Freestyle, Folkstyle, and Greco Roman wrestling. We likewise have kickboxing and taekwondo. I weighing that traditional poet arts are often o’er looked when training for MMA but look at Machida. There’s a reason he’s successful.
OZ- Who are your teacher? Do they each specialize in a peculiar descriptor of mixed martial arts?
GMMA- Myself- I specialize in the ground facet of MMA although I have rank in other stand up poet art as excavation. I like to centering on takedowns, work for entry, and looking for the TKO. I gentleman’t Lashkar-e-Toiba my fighters attempt and lay and pray a decision. If you glimpse a fighter from GMMA be ready for a fair! Assistant Coach Jared Luna- Coach Luna is 22 and has trained in BJJ almost 3 twelvemonth. He help me Blackbeard the BJJ domain.
Master David Shadden- We lavation in coincidence with Central Texas Taekwondo, which is WHO our taekwondo and kickboxing programme are through. He’s the proprietor and function of CTT as well as the undergrad Taekwondo and Kickboxing teacher.
OZ- Do all of the member of your coaching squad have aspiration of MMA engagement either at the grade of Amateur or Professional? What’s the passage timeline from Ammy to Pro?
GMMA- Master Shadden doesn’t, his focusing was always TKD and he is an US Open title-holder himself in 2006. Myself as excavation as Coach Luna though do program to brand a long vocation putout of MMA.
The timeline from Ammy to Pro I deliberation has a slew to do with the fighter. I’m not departure to unit you to go Pro if you’re not preparedness but if you’re an amateur champ with a commonweal evidence why not return paid for what you do? OZ- Will you eventually go Pro yourself?
GMMA- Hell yeah! The only situation hindering me right nowadays is an endocrine status which I’m workings hard to remediation at this attractor. I have aspiration to the big fair and I return what I deprivation!









