Thanks to Mike Fowler for a Great Seminar!

Lloyd Irvin Black Belt, Mike Fowler gave a seminar at Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu today.  Mike is one of America’s best competing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belts and has been one of mainstays for the team since he started training.  Mike covered his favorite guard positions including 3 variations of the bump sweep and lots of counters to counters to his “unstoppable sweep”.

The seminar was very well-organized with basic movements and concepts blending into more complex movements and concepts.   For example, Fowler would teach a simple mount escape at the start of the seminar and then by the end of the seminar, the simple mount escape motion would be used to finish a Brabo choke from the bottom of the half-guard.  Another great seminar at Crazy 88!

PS – We will be adding some techniques from the seminar to our facebook fanpage, so if you are not already a fan, please register!

Mike Fowler watches and corrects Evan's mount techniques

Seth Competes at the PGC as Warm-Up for Kids Pan Jiu Jitsu Championships

With the Kids Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championships coming up next weekend, the Fillers family drove to the Philadelphia Grappling Championships in order to get Seth some more experience. Seth is one of our first students at our Baltimore Kids Mixed Martial Arts program and is one of our top Kids competitors.

At the tournament, Seth had three matches, winning two (video below).  Seth used his solid takedowns and defense from on top to get the victories.

Due to the smaller size of the competition, the children’s weight classes were a bit more spread than usual so Seth also had a chance to wrestle a 110+ lb’er.  Even though Seth did not win that one, it turned out to be good experience for future Adult Open divisions!  Next week, Seth and Brendan “Spike-a-Doodle” will fly to Los Angeles for the first Kids Pan Ams so make sure you keep an eye on the site to keep up to date with the results!

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Team Lloyd Irvin Goes 11-2 at the Gameness Fighting Championships

Team Lloyd Irvin made a splash at the Sixth Gameness Fighting Championships in Nashville, TN. We had thirteen fighters on the card (including many fighters making their MMA debut) and won eleven bouts (KO, Rear naked choke, Kimura, armbar, TKO due to strikes, triangle choke, tapout due to GnP, Unanimous decision, KO due to GnP, KO, and KO). It was a dominating performance by the team and also allowed showed the depth of the MMA skills being developed with fighters winning on the feet, on the ground, by strikes, and by submissions.

If you watch the highlight video above, you’ll get a chance to see some of the Camp Springs MMA guys in action.  Watch DJ Jackson mount and punish his opponent and Ron Stallings get the TKO with some vicious GnP following a flash knockdown.  Ron runs the Team Lloyd Irvin affiliate in Aberdeen, MD so if you are in Northern Maryland, make sure you check him out!