Aaron WIlkinson will be fighting on the Cage Warriors 48 card on Saturday 21st July 2012.

Watch the promo video for the event here.

Aaron Wilkinson wins 'Submission of the Night' at Cagewarriors 48 on Saturday July 21st 2012.

Aaron defeated Lee Cohoon by rear naked choke in round 1

Matt Inman defeated local favourite Kyle Redfearn in just under two minutes at Total Combat 47 on Saturday 12th May 2012 to become the new British Welterweight champion.

Taking the fight on ten days notice, after Redfearn's original opponent pulled out, this was Inman's first MMA fight since 2010 having spent the last year focussing on his coaching career and having back rehabilitation.

Obviously a little cage rusty, Inman found himself in bottom mount after shooting a double leg early in the first round. Weathering the storm from Redfearn's ground and pound, Inman kept his composure and sunk in a triangle choke, taking the W in 1:50 of round number one.

FCC Featherweight Champion Joshua Jarvis (Left) with brother Jordan

Joshua Jarvis brought another title back to SBG Mainline on Saturday night defeating Ben Dearden for the FCC featherweight title.

Much to the surprise and pleasure of the crowd, it took Josh just 1 minute 10 seconds of the first round to finish his opponent with a standing guillotine against the cage.

Congratulations to Josh

Most everyone is now familiar with the Aliveness training concept; the key point that we make time and again is that it isn’t so much what you train, rather, it is ‘how’ you train. As obvious as this point is, it still gets missed by the majority of the martial arts population.

The same point can be made regards coaching. I think a fairly good argument can be made for SBGi having one of the best teams around.

It isn’t that SBGi has just a few star athletes, while everyone else achieves average level skill. Rather, everyone on the mat grows better, the entire team, from great MMA fighters to your average hobbyist grappler demonstrates that extra level of skill. The entire mat is tough.

Why the success?

When it comes to coaching, just like training, it isn’t ‘what’ we teach; it is ‘how’ we teach that makes the crucial difference. This is down to one thing 'Training Methods'.

If you are running a BJJ or MMA club where do you go to learn 'how' to coach?

Sure you can get 'techniques' from dvds, YouTube, other black belts, and then show them to your class. Join the crowd because that is what everyone is doing, welcome to the world of ‘average’. However, if it was just 'techniques' that mattered then no one team would really rise above the rest. The reality is it's down to 'how' you structure your program, how to tailor classes for Beginners and Pro MMA Fighters alike; how to drill anything Alive and as effectively.

For the first time ever I'll be opening the doors to coaches of any team out there who is interested in learning from the innovator of these methods himself, Matt Thornton.
This is a unique opportunity for you to help bring your team, whether you are in charge of 10 people rolling in a garage or the head of busy MMA school, to the next level. This will be an intense one day workshop covering all the things that make a gym like SBG head and shoulders above the competition.

Matt will be covering:

1-What the most misunderstood concept related to Aliveness, and how it applies to everything.
(this is the key that unlocks everything else)

2-What makes a great Coach, and what is the true value to what we do.
(understanding the journey so you can guide others)

3-Old school versus new school training models.
(this will take your gym to another level. This is SBG 2012)

4-Creating a progressive ladder. (building people up, rather than weeding them out, and allowing your gym to triple in membership. Create world champions, while at the same time helping your average person achieve a success they never Dreamed possible. Build a community!)

5- The five types of drills, and their practical application. (regardless of the sport, there are only 5 ways to drill. Most coaches use one, or at best two methods. Learn how to utilize all five to take your athletes to a new level of functional performance)

Space is limited and will go fast. This is the cutting edge material that the SBG’s around the world are implementing, and it has never been taught outside of SBG until now. There will be no filming allowed, and registration is limited. This is material that we guarantee you won’t find anywhere else.

Sunday 27th May 2pm - 5pm

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There is also general BJJ/MMA workshops running on Saturday 11-1pm and 2-5pm and Sunday 11-1pm . These will be £30 a session or all three for £75.

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 Wednesday June 12th 2012 was an historic day for SBG Mainline.

This was the first belt test since the new gym opened and what a belt test it was.

12 Blue Belts were awarded, one Brown belt and the very first Black belt given by SBG Vice president Karl Tanswell.

Chris Coltrane and Casey Jones were 'Iron Manned' for over an hour to earn their brown and black belts respectively. Sparring with over 30 white belts, blue belts, purple belts and brown belts, including noteable UFC veteran's and a final roll with black belt Tanswell for Casey Jones, both guys thoroughly earned their well deserved belts.

Complete List of Promotions

Blue Belts

• Alex Minogue
• David Johnson
• Ella Yee (Previously Awarded by Matt Thornton on May 27th 2012)
• Joel Finnan
• John Joe O'Regan
• Jordan Desborough
• Joshua Jarvis
• Louis Dasouki
• Mateusz Lisowski
• Michal Dudek
• Simon Kenny
• Toryn Poolman

Brown Belt

• Christopher Coltrane

Black Belt

• Casey Jones

What a great performance from SBG Mainline at the UCC Blitz at the Ritz event on Friday 27th April 2012.

Four out of the five fighters competing won their bouts with three finishing their opponent in the first round.

Complete results for SBG

Jordan Desborough-Jarvis (SBG) def. Nathan Thompson via submission (rear-naked choke) – round 1, 2.26

Brendan Loughnane (SBG) def. Danny Welsh via submission (rear-naked choke) – round 1, 1.36

Steve Dinsdale def. Alex Minogue (SBG) via TKO (strikes) – round 1,  1.03

Dave Garvey (SBG) def. Andreas Tricomitis via submission (rear-naked choke) – round 1, 0.35

Aaron Wilkinson (SBG) def. Martin Welby via TKO (strikes) – round 3, 3.14

Congratulations to all the fighters, coaches and corner team, Karl Tanswell, Matt Inman and Jon Bond and all of the training partners at SBG Mainline and MMA Academy Liverpool.

Also congratulations to Pitero Menga, Jason Tan and all the guys from Liverpool MMA Academy on Menga taking the UCC Flyweight Title.

Pietro Menga def. Shamul Haque via submission (guillotine choke) – round 2, 0.43 (flyweight title fight)

A great night for all.

All the SBG Guys made weight for the UCC Blitz at the Ritz event on Friday 27th April.

Good luck to those competing.

• Jordan Desborough-Jarvis
• David Garvey
• Alex Minogue
• Brendan Loughnane
• Aaron Wilkinson

David Garvey

SBG's Zenon Ogar (Zanic) took gold medals in both the white belt weight category bracket and the white belt absolute.

Well done to Zanic and all the other guys who competed on the day.