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A Visit from the Camp Springs Team –> AWESOME JIU-JITSU TRAINING!

Team Lloyd Irvin United!

Another great night of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training at Crazy 88 BJJ.   Tonight we had Mike Fowler bring up a killer squad from Lloyd Irvin HQ in Camp Springs, MD.  The group consisted of Tracey Goodell, Willie Leonard, DJ Jackson, and Frank Camacho.  Tracey is one of Team Lloyd Irvin up-and-coming female stars.  Willie took Gold at the 2009 World Championships.  DJ is the World and PanAm No-Gi champ and of course, Frank Camacho is one of Team Lloyd Irvin’s top MMA prospects, coming off a dominating victory in his last MMA fight.  Needless to say – the mats were on fire!

If you missed the Advanced class tonight, you missed out BIG TIME.  If you are not training with us yet and want to get serious with your BJJ, MMA, or Muay Thai training, give us a call now (443) 283-1450.

UGC XI Adrenaline Results

Crazy 88 keeps pushing as Baltimore’s most active BJJ school. While one group of our competitors were in Portugal at the European Open BJJ Championships, another team drove to Hamburg, PA.

Here is a short description from one of our White Belts…

“Ashby 1st no-gi, 3rd gi

Shrum: 3rd gi beginner

Can’t remember Evan or Eric but they won theirs.

I was confused as to the division I was in because Shrum and I should have been in the same division but we weren’t. Shrum said he saw on his bracket that it was beginner and that mine was “regular”? This was very “Bush League”, as I’ve heard you say before. Either way I went against two wrestlers with 3 and 13 years experience wrestling respectively in no-gi.”

2010 European Jiu-Jitsu Championships Results – Day Two

Roberto Torralbas (Third Law BJJ) defeated Daniel Holm (Checkmat BJJ) 6-0 with a takedown and back take.

Roberto Torralbas won his 2nd match 2-0.

In the quarterfinals, Roberto faced off against Bruno Goncalves (Gracie Barra).  Goncalves scored first with a quarter-guard sweep and Roberto came back with a sweep of his own, tying the score at 2-2.  The match ended with Roberto having folded Goncalves legs.  We were confident in the referee’s decision but the official raised the other competitor’s hand.  Unfortunately, that is the way it goes if the match goes to a referee’s decision.

Jon “Devastator” Delbrugge won his first match 12-0 vs. Tulle Edman (Nacka Dojo).  Jon was able to control from the top position and repeatedly pass for the victory.

Jon Delbrugge squared off against his first opponent

Jon’s next opponent was the returning champion from last year, Janne Autio (Alliance Europe).  Most of the match was in Jon’s half-guard with Janne stabilizing the position.  Halfway through the match, Jon fell privy to a tight Kimura which forced the tapout.

Tomorrow is the Brown Belts and Black Belt Open!

2010 European Jiu-Jitsu Championships Results – Day One

Alfonso Washington lost 0-0 (-1 to -1) to Markus Plieninger (Saulo Ribeiro)

Keith Cebula 2-0 over Vitor Cardoso (Vita JJ Team) before losing 6-2 to Yann Filippi (Alliance Europe)

Tye Ryan Murphy defeated Rui Oliveira (Gracie Barra Paço de Arcos) 10-0.

Tye Ryan Murphy defeated Sergio Sanchez (Gracie Barra Sevilla) 10-0.

Tye Ryan Murphy triangled Lefeuvre Simon (Gracie Barra Rennes)

Cedric Certenais (Gracie Humaita) defeated Tye 5-0.

Tye Gripping So Fast became a Blur

US Grappling – Mid-Atlantic Grappling Championship 2 Results

Today was the third straight weekend of grappling competitions for Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. This time, we sent a few of our grapplers to US Grappling’s event in Boothwyn, PA.

Russell Atkinson won his first tournament match ever via triangle choke before losing in the following round.  Great job by Russ who has made tremendous improvement in his Jiu-Jitsu.  When he first started, he struggled through the warmup and now he is doing multiple classes a day and competing!

Scott Heindl rebounded from a first round loss in his weight class to win the Beginner Open division: 12-0, 9-2, and  7-0.  This was Scott’s first tournament!

A Hat Trick for David Zwanetz as he won his third blue belt division in as many weeks.  Dave received a bye in the 1st round, flash-triangled his 2nd opponent, and then defeated the 2009 Blue Belt Galo World Silver medalist in the Finals.  Great job by Dave who weighed in at 123 for the 123-135.5 lb weight class.

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** = Split division with teammate; no losses

Mike Easton Runs Successful Baltimore Mixed Martial Arts Seminar

Mike Easton & Frank Camacho

Mike Demonstrates How to Properly Hold Someone's Hand as They Cross The Street

Mike Sees Some Cupcakes in the Corner

Mike Explains Intricacies of Fighting Off the Cage

Mike Easton and Frank “The Crank” Camacho visited our Baltimore MMA school to give a seminar on Mixed Martial Arts.  Even with short notice and a grappling competition on the same day, we had good turnout for the event.  The seminar covered everything from the feet to the ground, from wrestling to ground and pound.

Mike is professional fighter and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt with victories in multiple promotions.  Frank Camacho is a young fighter (under 20 years old) from Guam who moved to Maryland just to train at Lloyd Irvin MMA academy.  Between the two of them, they have close to 20 professional MMA fights so it was great to have them in the room, sharing their knowledge.

Mike has an upcoming fight in Tennessee in February and is also considering doing the Abu Dhabi Gi next weekend.  Frank, despite dominantly winning his last fight, plans to focus on his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training (he already has great standup) this year before getting back into the cage.  They are true Mixed Martial Artists!

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More Night Martial Arts Classes Added

Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has expanded its schedule to include additional late evening martial arts classes. For all you night owls, we will now have Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes at 10 PM, Monday through Thursday!

If you have been reading our blog, you’ll know that one of our goals for 2010 is to expand to a 24 hours schedule so our clients can train at their convenience.  The BJJ classes are the first step toward that goal; we hope to add Muay Thai Kickboxing classes as well as Mixed Martial Arts classes to the late evenings and then to the early mornings to give the full spectrum of realistic martial arts training at any time.

Please give us call at (443) 283-1450 if you need to expand your training plan to include the additional classes.

Results: Baltimore BJJ Championships by The Good Fight

Today we sent a few of our Adult Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Columbia Childrens Martial Arts competitors to the local Baltimore grappling tournament run by The Good Fight.  It has been a while since a promoter tried to run a grappling-only competition in the Baltimore area (actually, I don’t know if one has ever tried) but it would certainly be convenient if the tournaments become profitable enough for promoters to consistently run tournaments here.

Seth Fillers, and his sister, Vanessa Fillers, started the day off for Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.  Seth is one of our best kid grapplers and it showed as he mounted and armbarred his two opponents to take Gold in No Gi and followed it with an Americana and Rear Naked Choke for Gold in Gi.  Today was Vanessa’s first tournament and she fought great but the staff at the event messed up; they allowed Vanessa’s opponent to do submissions and he caught her in an armbar to end the bout – BUT- Vanessa was competing in the Beginner No-Submissions division.  Hopefully the staff at The Good Fight can be more aware of this kind of oversight in the future!

Jon “Devastator” Delbrugge had 4 matches total – all by submission to win Gold in his Purple Belt weight class and Purple Belt Open.

Matthew “Little” Burr won his matches 13-0, DQ (9-0 for Burr before slam), and 11-0 to win his division!

Jermaine “Big Burr” Mathis had two submissions and a points victory for his weight class championship.  He then went on to win the White Belt Open.

Clarence Melton and Kwami Mensah each won a match to close out their division.

“Rodeo” Brian Neal won Gold!  His first match was 14-0, not sure on 2nd.

Lawyer Dave scored 9 points on his first opponent before tapping him with a breadcutter choke and then trounced his finals opponent 12-2.

** = Split division with teammate; no losses

Team Lloyd Irvin Voted “Best Grappling Team of the Decade”

Congratulations to all the competitors from our Baltimore area school and all the competitors that represented Team Lloyd Irvin during the past 10 years.  Its a great accomplishment to win consistently over the course of a decade and we will continue to push to do it again!

The OFFICIAL Top Ten Teams of the Decade (1999-2009) at Grapplers Quest are:

TIE-10. Royler Gracie/Dave Adiv/Lou Vintaloro/Mike Mrkulic/Chris Savarese

TIE-10. Saulo & Alexandre Ribeiro/Rafael Lovato, Jr.

9. Carlson Gracie/Ricardo Calvacanti

8. Yamasaki Jiu Jitsu/Mario and Fernando Yamasaki/Francisco Neto/David Jacobs

7. Alliance/Paragon Jiu Jitsu/Franjinha Miller/Jeff Glover/Bill Cooper

6. Machado/Amilcar “Mica” Cippili and Walter Vital

5. Relson Gracie/Team Balance Studios/Phil and Ricardo Migliarese

4. American Top Team/Ricardo Liborio/Best Way/Andre Almeida “Dedeco”/Luigi Mondelli

3. Cobra Kai/Marc Laimon

2. Gracie Barra/Renzo Gracie/Ricardo Almeida

1. Team Lloyd Irvin/Leo Dalla/Jared Weiner/Brad Court/Mike Moses

You can read the full writeup here…

http://www.grapplersquest.com/blogs/briancimins/best-grappling-team-decade

On the Mat Northeast Regional Championships

Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu exploded into 2010 with the competition team being divided and sent to two tournaments. The Northbound squad headed to the OTM Northeast Regional Championship in the Philadelphia area while the Southbound squad drove to the Copa Nova competition to combine forces with Team Lloyd Irvin Camp Springs.

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Evan Gideon continued his string of victories with 4 submissions (3 chokes from the back and 1 mounted cross-choke) and then a 4-2 war in the finals of the Blue Belt Open division.

Clarence Melton won three hard-fought matches to win his first Blue Belt division.  He won his first match in OT, submitted his second opponent with a breadcutter, and won his final match 4-2 also in OT.  To celebrate his victory, he immediately settled himself off the mat where he vomited repeatedly into his gi (he is very mindful of the maintenance staff).  Clarence has repeatedly placed but always fell short of the top podium spot so this victory was the proverbial “monkey off his back.”

Travis Outten took double silver in his two divisions.  In the weight class, Travis took his first opponent down and passed his guard for a 5-0 win.  In the finals of that division, he went out of his comfort zone and wrestled the match on the feet where he came up short in a 0-4 loss.  In the White Belt Open, Travis got back to business, submitting his first opponent with an inverted triangle from top and finishing his second adversary with an armbar.  This was a ‘nice’ Open division where everyone was within 20 lbs of Travis until the Finals.  Travis fell behind on the scoreboard early but had some strong submission attempts on the big man to close out the time.  Solid performance.

David Zwanetz was able to get two matches actually in his weight class… unfortunately, they were against the same opponent.  Lawyer Dave caught the triangle 30 seconds into the first bout and then locked on another late into the second bout to win the two-out-of-three series.

Crazy 88 also had Eric Palmer and Tom Shrum make their first competition appearances as members of our Baltimore Jujutsu Team.  Both guys fought hard and we are glad to have them getting to work so early in 2010!