The Rio Grappling Club welcomes the new affiliated schools in the Tuscan region, Italy. Now you can also train with us in Viareggio and Pistoia. RGC Viareggio is captained by Alberto Remedi under supervision of Bernardo Serrini (RGC Livorno and Italian Head Coach), while RGC Pistoia is leaded by Alberto Tesi, under the eyes of Matteo Calamandrei (RGC Firenze).
We also congratulate the coaches Bernardo Serrini, Matteo Calamandrei, Gianluca Boni and Matteo Menna that were granted black belts in Grappling by the Italian federation FIGMA, responsible for all Grappling tournaments in Italy.
The First Trial for Abu Dhabi BJJ Pro 2010 will happen in the land of Oz.
The Abu Dhabi Pro Australasia will take place on Sunday, 15 November 2009 at Endeavour Sports High.
The Abu Dhabi Pro Australia/Australasia is proudly supported by Triple Bull, Nippy’s, Boost Mobile, Aerial 7, CJ Signs, Grapplingstore.com, Rhino Mouthguards, Little Corner Shop.
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The most prestigious Grappling Tournament in the World, the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships is still happening in Barcelona, with the Male and Female Open Divisions scheduled to start soon. Here the results of the weight divisions:
-66kgs:
1. Rafael Mendes
2. Rubens Cobrinha
3. Ryan Hall
-77kgs:
1. Pablo Popovitch
2. Marcelo Garcia
3. Gregor Gracie
-88kgs:
1. Braulio Estima
2. Andre Galvao
3. David Avellan
1. Fabricio Werdum
2. Roberto Cyborg
3. Jeff Monson
Superfight:
Jacare won against Robert Drysdale
Women’s -60kgs:
1. Luanna Alzuguir
2. Sayaka Shioda
3. Hillary Williams
Women’s +60kgs:
1. Hannette Staak
2. Penny Thomas
3. Cris Cyborg
Once again brazilian grapplers dominated the event, winning all weight divisions and the superfight. As soon as the Open Weight divisions end, we will publish their results.
September 20th, Saturday, Flavio Machado and Luiz Eduardo Dentinho competed in the III leg of the Rio de Janeiro State Championships (FJJRio) and both brought impressive results. Dentinho took the gold in the adult brown belt open Div and ranked first on the annual ranking, while Flavio Machado took 2 silvers, in purple adult – 94kg and open division.
Romina “Bom-ba-yee” from Rio Grappling Club Livorno, won the ADCC Italy in Asti on the 28th of September, displaying an awesome performance, she was sick the day before, and fought like a lioness to win two matches, qualifying to the Europeans in Kraków, Poland, next month.
Last but not least, our greek friend Dimitrios Tsitos, returning to Bangkok after winning the No Gi Ramadan Open in Abu Dhabi, entered the Thailand BJJ and Grappling Open and went on a rampage, winning two golds in the GI comp, purple -90kg and open, taking two more medals without GI, this time a silver and bronze. To see more info about the Thailand open, go to: bjj-asia.com
Our friend Dimitrios Tsitos, from Athens, Greece, won the open division and his weight class (-92kg).
Tsitos was in Brasil about two and a half years ago training with me, Mariusz Koziej, Bernardo Serrini and Gianluca Boni. We travelled and competed in Florianopolis, Brasil.
We met again in Greece a year ago and later he moved east, in a trip that took him to China, Korea, Australia and Thailand. He arrived in Dubai and took part of the Ramadan Cup, taking two golds and a cash prize of 3 Thousand Euro. Watch 2 of his matches here:
Our friends from Budapest are organising a major grappling tournament in the 10th of May. The comp will use BJJ rules adapted for No GI, and the prizes are excellent, 1,000 Euros for the open class winner as well as 500 Euros for each winner in the advanced classes.
This is the third edition of their No Gi tournament and the organisers are expecting lots of participants from all parts of Europe.
For more info please contact: maxicarvalho@hotmail.com
Belo Horizonte, the capital city of Minas Gerais, one of the richest states of Brasil, is also known in the Jiu Jitsu world for being the hometown of the Draculino Team, one of the strongest BJJ and Submission squads, with affiliated schools in the US, Poland and Greece among other countries.
Last Saturday, one of his black belts, Peposo, organised a very professional tournament of Submission Grappling, The 1st Champion League, with money prizes that attracted big names.
Our only student there, Luiz Eduardo Rosa Jr., did very well winning 4 combats in the Elite Division under 70 kgs to win the comp. Dentinho, brown belt in BJJ, participated in one of the most difficult classes and submitted two of his opponents, winning the 2 other fights with many points ahead of his adversaries.
Luiz arrived in Belo Horizonte a week before, and was welcomed at Draculino team where he trained with Marcello Uirapuru and the whole squad to prepare better for the challenge.
He arrived at the finals and closed the bracket with one student of Draculino, Caloquinha. They then shared the money prize of R$500.00 (almost 200 Euros).
Dentinho trains under Marco Chuck at our clubs in Buzios and Cabo Frio. He has been one of the most active of our members in competitions, winning most of the tournaments he entered in the last 2 years, with or without GI.
His focus now is on the Rio de Janeiro State BJJ Championships this month, the international tournaments of July and August in Brasil, and later a trip to Poland where he will help us with the classes in Wroclaw and train at our HQ, aiming for the Europeans next January.
Every time Carlos Santos makes a new BJJ championship, he puts more money prizes. His tournament is already making history as the one that pays more than any other BJJ comp. Add to this his experience as a competitor (3X World Champion) and organiser, and you will think twice before missing his events.
This time the total purse is 33 thousand american dollars (more than 20 thousand euros) split by the champions of 15 divisions from white to brown belt. Dates are 9th and 10th of May, location is the famous ADCC Combat Club in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
The Emirates Airlines have regular flights from most capital cities in Europe, and is regarded as one of the best airlines in the world. For more info please call: +971 50 8218485, email Carlos at: emiratesbjj@gmail.com or go to their website: www.adcup.blogspot.com
Applied Fighting Systems in Surrey is an associated club to the Rio Grappling Club network since 2004 when I started teaching classes there. The head coach, Steve Haydock, received the purple, brown and black belts from my hands. The results of his students reflect his dedication to coaching and his total commitment to technical quality and as our only representative in England, the club aims high and has achieved impressive results in the last years. 2008 barely started and he already sent me good news from 2 different No Gi grappling competitions.
Dave Pawan – Gold medal, Advanced Division, -93 kgs
Grapplers Showdown (London) – 22/03/2008
Tim Murray – Silver medal, 3 to 6 Yrs, -79 kgs
Dave Pawan – Gold Medal, 1 to 3 Yrs, -93 kgs
Jamil Sorouji – Gold and Silver Medals, +6 Yrs, Open Weight and Men’s Absolute
An impressive thing is that Jamil has been training for less than 3 years and already won many comps with and without GI! Jamil Sorouji, my great friend Wallid from Carlson Gracie London and Lubomir Repaski, finalists of the Men’s Absolute
For complete results and more pictures of the Grapplers Showdown, go to grapplers-showdown.com
Check this quick video showing Daniel Niemeyer receiving his black belt from his teacher Robinson Machado at our club in Cabo Frio, RJ, two weeks ago. Congratulations Dan, and keep it up!
Xmas is coming and so is 2008. A new year arrives and is time to reflect on the past year, check our goals, fix the route if needed and keep forward. Is also time for gradings in Brasil, and this year we have a new black belt in our ranks. Congratulations to Daniel Niemeyer, from Cabo Frio. He received his belt from Robinson Machado, in the first ceremony to be held in our new gym (same location, new dojo).
Marco Chuck (RGC Buzios) will be holding his own ceremony this friday and I was hinted that Luiz Eduardo Rosa Junior will receive the brown belt. Luiz, aka Dentinho, won recently two medals on the purple belt in Teresopolis, a gold in the light open and a bronze in the middle weight, at the Pan American (CBJJE). This month he travelled to Sta. Catarina and took the silver medal in the South American (CBJJ), this time in the light weight. Watch one of his fights below.
Gradings were also held in South Africa, Italy and Cyprus. Igor presented Panicos Aravis his well deserved purple belt, and I promoted Bernardo Serrini (Italy) and Chris Bright (S. Africa) to the brown belt, as well as Liam, Sergio, Bradley, Dennis and Ryan from Johannesburg to the purple belt. All those changes can be noticed on the page About Us, that keeps the records of our official gradings worldwide.
Mauro Chueng is keeping busy in Portugal. He is helping the Dynamite Team (Muay Thai) from Algarve, improving their ground game and coaching their athletes that will fight MMA. Mauro has a solid No Gi experience and trained extensively with Pequeno back in Brasil, besides being one of the most creative fighters I have ever seen in Jiu Jitsu, so I expect some of those guys to be kicking ass soon.
I acted as a referee in the I Catalunya Vulkan BJJ Cup. I noticed that our sport is growing in Spain and had the opportunity to meet good teachers from the new generation that are bringing the art to a higher level in the old continent.
Among them, Yan Cabral and Paulo Sergio in France, Leonardo Pelucio in Tarragona, Augusto Frota and Anderson Pereira in Switzerland, as well as my friends Rafael Haubert (Barcelona) and Edson Sururu (Marbella) showed through their athletes that BJJ is improving fast in Europe. So Merry Xmas and put up your resolutions for 2008, among them do not forget to train more, rest well and eat properly, to keep healthy and fit to fight!
Two weeks ago, in Barcelona, my friend Rafael Haubert, with great support from his partner Jordi Fite and all the crew at BTT Barcelona, put up a great show. The first Catalunya Vulkan had good prizes (400 euros for the black belt winner, and Vulkan GIs for every champion), great fights and a superb organization. The white and blue belt divisions were run on the Saturday, and the purple, brown and black belts fought on the Sunday.
I was reffing throughout the comp, so I was in a privileged position to watch many memorable fights. In the blue belt, Alberto Gonzales from Sevilla looked very sharp, submitting his 2 opponents with chokes from his guard, always in the first minute. Among the purples, huge props to Pablo Cabo, from Malaga. This kid fights like a professional, he knows when to attack and when to rest, and knows how to use the rules to secure great wins against good opponents in one of the busiest divisions. I won’t surprised if he carries on and win big tournaments in Brasil in the near future.
In the brown and black belts, it was the brazilians that scored big time, with Mathias Ribeiro (Fabricio Werdun Madrid) taking the brown belt open division. Yan Cabral and Paulo Sergio shared the money prize in the black belt open after defeating no less than 4 guys from Gracie Barra in order to take home the 400 euros.
Yan Cabral and Paulo Sergio are living in France where they have clubs in Montpelier and Toulouse, and came well trained to score big time victories that left no doubt they were the names of the event. The structure of the event was better than the one I found at the European last January, with electronic scoreboards, a great venue and the crew worked well to deliver the comp without compromising the schedule at any time. All the brown belt and black belt fights had 3 refs instead of one, avoiding mistakes and making clear that it can be done everywhere if there is a will to make things right.
Some results:
Brown belt open
1. Mathias Ribeiro – Fabricio Werdun Madrid
2. Rogent Lloret – Gracie Barcelona
3. Rodrigo Rosario – BTT
3. Waldinei de Almeida – BTT
Gianluca Boni (RGC Italy, Bologna and Ferrara) has sent me results from the latest grappling comp in Italy, the V INTERNATIONAL OLIMPIC SUBMISSION WRESTLING TOURNAMENT. Two of our students got silver medals on this No Gi tournament held on the 25th of November in the city of Modena.
Names and divisions are listed below:
Pier Andrea Petazzi RGC Bologna -78Kg C Class
Ion Condei RGC Bologna -88Kg C Class
September, 2007. For the second time in history, Brasil hosted the Judo World Championships. And this time, brazilian athletes won 3 golds. Watch here the 3 finals, featuring Thiago Camilo (-81kg), Luciano Correa (-100kg) and Joao Derly (-66kg).
The III Hungarian BJJ Open will take place on November 24th. The organisers have said that competitors from Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, France and England have confirmed their participation in the event.
For more info, write in english or portuguese to Max Carvalho at maxicarvalho@hotmail.com
If you are more confortable with russian or hungarian languages, contact Andrej Banik at andrej_banik@yahoo.com
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