Rising Sun MMA produces two Wins on June 28th 2008 at Jack’s Kickboxing -MMA event in Delaware. First up to fight was Vincent Renna he took his opponent out in the first round. Vince landed some powerful strikes including an impressive head kick, his opponent than shot in and took Vince’s legs were Vince capitalizing on the moment applied the guillotine choke ending the fight. Next to fight was Anthony Renna he fought a three round fight dominating his opponent every round. He landed numerous heavy blows to his opponent every round and managed to execute the hip throw at least twice. The fight went the distance and Anthony ended up winning by a well deserved unanimous decision. We look forward to Cross training with their school whenever the opportunity arrives.

Vincent Renna MMA fight

Anthony Renna's MMA Fight at Jack's

This was Sifu Chris Clark’s second amateur fight, this event took place on july 12th 2008 at combat in the cage in Delaware. This was a very exciting battle between Sifu Chris and Scott Hutt from RGDA. For the first round Scott executed his plan to take Chris down to the mat but Chris used his jiu-jitsu skills to keep Scott from putting him into any serious danger. The fight lasted for three heart racing rounds and Chris almost secured a Kimura which Scott being very flexible was able to narrowly escape, the fight ended 48 seconds in the third round when Chris caught Scott into an arm bar from the triangle position.

Practical MMA expands its horizon by teaching a Jeet Kune Do seminar for the Order of Isshin ryu in Chesapeake City.

“On June 21st the Order of Isshin-Ryu gathered for their annual summer shiai program. The seminar presented on Saturday featured Master Sifu Tom Clark and his son Mr. Chris Clark. Sifu Clark is a Jeet Kune Do (JKD) instructor and has studied under Masters Dan Inosanto, Larry Hartsell, and Richard Bustillo—all of whom studied directly under JKD founder, Bruce Lee. The three hour seminar began with several applications from Seiuchin kata, based upon Sifu Clark’s Goju-Ryu background. The choke evasion in the beginning of the kata became a takedown, and the bear hug counter turned into palm heel and knee strikes. The next part of the seminar focused on basic JKD pivots, advances, and retreats. Sifu Clark also covered ‘sticky hands’, a drill to improve reading an opponent’s next move, and ways to transform an opponent’s reverse punch into an elbow lock and figure four takedown. Next on the agenda, Mr. Chris Clark gave an introduction to Muay Tai kickboxing. Starting with basic footwork, Mr. Clark then taught kicks, elbows, and knees that are essential to this system. Finally, Sifu Clark again took the stage to cover knife fighting drills from the Philippines.”

March 29, 2008

At Jacks Kickboxing Gym in Newark, DE was Baltimore’s own Sifu Chris Clark, fighting his first semi-pro MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fight. After months of vigorous training the fight ended in a no contest due to an unintended foul (thumb in the eye) to Sifu Chris.

Many other entertaining matches took place that night with fighters from gyms from all over the east coast. Including kickboxing, boxing and MMA style fights. Overall it was a great night. There were a few good knockouts and a few good decisions. We would like to thank Jacks Gym for the chance to fight.

We are currently training additional fighters to compete in up coming MMA events. For more info on how you can compete with us contact Chris.