If you haven't
read Meerkatsu's interview with OSS Clothing, the "About Us"
blurb on their site goes like so:
Welcome
to OSS Clothing, a premier apparel company born on the island of Oahu and
spreading across the pacific. We believe that it’s the journey, not the
destination that defines us and makes us who we are.
No one can deny the importance of wrestling in a competitor’s MMA game. Even if he or she isn’t a great take down artist, not developing good takedown defense is a huge mistake if a person wants to keep the fight standing. Someone whose strength is on the ground would also benefit from the take down and positioning skills wrestling helps to develop.
A few months ago, I decided to add Muay Thai and MMA training to my schedule in order to prepare for my first MMA fight. I see jiu-jitsu as the foundation of my game so I didn’t want to neglect that area of my training for something new. Unfortunately, due to my full-time job, I am not able to split my marital arts training into different times of the day and so during an ideal week, my training schedule would look like so:
Melyssa Hutchinson is currently a BJJ blue belt under Vitor "Shaolin"Ribeiro in New York who started her jiu-jitsu training at Abhaya MMA in
Wolfville, NS. She is in the process of changing training academies due to her
experiences and connections in Brazil and also because of a family move to
another city. Melyssa also teaches the children's jiujitsu class and has her
own all-women's bootcamp style training program as well as co-ed conditioning
classes called Fit to Fight.
