Advanced Sports Performance Comes to Elkridge

Team Lloyd Irvin Camp Springs’ D’Angelo Kinard came to Crazy 88 BJJ this Saturday to hold a Strength & Conditioning seminar. D’Angelo runs Advanced Sports Performance and handles the physical training for the professional fighters and grapplers. His presentation involved a short talk on his philosophies (“goals, plans, sacrifice”), and fixed up the participants’ forms on three fundamental exercises: the pushup, the squat, and the crunch. He then engaged the class with a short “warmup” and opened it up to a rather lengthy Q&A. D’Angelo will be planning out the 12-month routine for the Competition Team so everyone will be in tip-top shape for the 2011 World Championships!

Could this be the return of Devon "Demonstrator" Delbrugge?

National Zoo – Hot but Fun for the Kids

This week’s field trip for the Kids Summer Program participants was to the National Zoo in DC.  The weather reports indicated that it might rain and there were some drizzles on the way there but the weather was clear once we arrived at the Zoo.  Because of the (nonexistent) rain, the Zoo was pretty empty which allowed us to see all the major exhibits pretty quickly; the big winners with the kids were the Pandas and the Small Mammal house.  Tomorrow the little animals will be back in training at the Crazy 88 Zoo.

First Kids Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Belt is…

Chris “Short Round” Tran!

Chris has been training from 9 AM – 10 PM during the summer and exemplifies the attitude that we are looking for at Crazy 88.  For his first tournament (2010 Grapplers Quest US Nationals), the coaches wanted him to do Intermediate and despite some personal and familial misgivings, he entered the tournament, and won all his matches by submission.

A few weeks later, Chris was asked to move up to the Advanced division, despite falling at least 2 years below the training time recommendation, and he again challenged himself, winning a Gold and Silver.

When not winning tournaments and training, Chris can be found aggravating David Zwanetz re: the Process.

Great White Belt In House Tournament

Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu held another In House Competition for Team Lloyd Irvin White Belts – this one was with the Gi.  Over sixty grapplers from Ivey League MMA, Top Flight MMA, and Lloyd Irvin Martial Arts Academy (and about forty spectators) all made the trip to the mats of Elkridge, MD in order to get competition experience.  As a team, we make an effort to plan out our training and competition schedule to peak in June, the month of the World Championships so this was the opening ceremonies.   The tournament was run in a double-elimination format and seeded in order to give as many matches as possible to each grappler regardless of skill or size.  Everyone had a lot of fun and hopefully, gained some feedback about what they need to work on!

Special thanks to Stephanie Reitmeyer for the photos.  You can find more photos on the Crazy 88 BJJ Fanpage.

NOVICE RESULTS

Womens (novice) : Monica Barlow

Light (novice) : Tay Virgin

Ultra Heavy (novice) : Kevin Sellers

STANDARD RESULTS

Feather : Danny Johnson

Light : Travis Outten

Middle : Nick LaSalle

Medium Heavy : Danny Heath

Heavy : Josh Kuykendall

Ultra Heavy : Brian Clifton

Open : Brian Clifton

Womens AA : Heather Allen

Womens AAA : Avene Wynn

Short Round Continues "the Process" in the Open

Brian Clifton AKA "Jacare" won 2 Golds

Travis Outten Won the Lightweight Division

Jon Takes a Break from Reffing to Share Techniques with the White Belts

Heather, Erin, and Helen Battled It Out in the Womens Division

Baltimore Aquarium – First Destination for Kids Summer Program

The Kids Summer Program participants took their first field trip today – this one to the Baltimore National Aquarium.  We were able to park the school van relatively easily and get into the facility no problem.  The dolphin show and big stingray pit were the big hit attractions and, surprisingly, the kids just blew past the shark portion of the trip.  We also had a Crazy 88 student Scott Heindl, an employee of the aquarium, go out of his way and feed some of the animals for the kids.

Evan Gideon Promoted to Purple Belt

Evan Gideon Beaten Without Gi

Evan “Oz” Gideon became the 7th Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt tonight.  Evan has been one of our most consistent competitors, winning Gold at the 2010 BJJ World Championships and taking Silver in the Open Division at the same tournament.   He is also tied with the legendary “Hawaiian Punch” in coach-aggravation ability.

Evan had this to say about his promotion, “I just want everyone to know that I am extremely thankful for all their help and patience with me.  And I’m going to train hard everyday to live up to Team Lloyd Irvin and Crazy 88′s expectations.”

Ouch!

Mike Atkin, Evan Gideon, Jon Delbrugge, David Zwanetz

Crazy 88 Purple Belt Count Gets to 6

New Purple Belt David Z with World Silver Medalist, Brad Pearson, and 2X PanAm Bronze Medalist, Jon Delbrugge

David Zwanetz AKA “Lawyer Dave” was promoted to BJJ Purple Belt tonight.  Dave has been an integral part of the team since November 2007.  Since that time, he has coached the White Belt Competition Team, convinced his wife Cathy to begin training, and just recently took Silver at the 2010 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Championships.  Despite working full-time as a Howard County attorney, Dave trains 5-6 days a week without fail.  Crazy 88 has only promoted 5 Purple Belts in it’s history – Roberto Torralbas, Amie Turton, Mike Atkin, Malcolm Vaughan, Jon Delbrugge – and now the school is happy to have another join this elite group. 

Congratulations to David Zwanetz!

Surprise Visit by Sylvio Behring Black Belt Richard Nancoo

Richard Nancoo Demonstrates Moves on AungLa

Crazy 88 BJJ hosted a surprise visitor this weekend in Canadian BJJ Black Belt and Mixed Martial Arts Fighter, Richard Nancoo. Richard was in town for the weekend and stopped by our school for our Saturday Mixed level BJJ class and Sunday Basics class. We were happy to have him on the mats for some good training. He was very generous with his time and stayed after class on Sunday to share his techniques with others. If you are ever in the Ontario, make sure to check out his school – East York Martial Arts!

No Gi Grappling – Avellan Brothers Style

Crazy 88 BJJ was happy to bring Marcos and David Avellan to Baltimore for a three-hour No-Gi Grappling Seminar.  Marcos and David bring impeccable No Gi credentials to the mat including a recent Bronze medal at the Abu Dhabi Submission Wrestling Championship by David where he defeated Rafael Lovato (Gracie Humaita), Tarsis Humphries (Alliance), and “Cyborg” Abreu (BJJ Revolution) among others.

The session was very fast-paced due to the high technical level of the attending students and they were able to cover their favorite takedowns along with their home-grown guard passing style.  We will be posting video clips from this seminar so make sure you “LIKE” our Baltimore Martial Arts fanpage.

If you are a Martial Arts School Owner and are interested in hosting the Avellan brothers for a seminar, I would highly recommend it.  You can reach them at Marcos’ fanpage here…

Elkridge, Maryland Hosts Team Lloyd Irvin Worlds Training

Training for the BJJ Worlds is heating up! Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was hosting the Competition Team practice for Team Lloyd Irvin this Saturday and the mats were packed with talented grapplers. Even with recent Brazilian Nationals Champion, Tracey Goodell, Jim Harbison, Mike Fowler, and JT Torres in Brazil, Camp Springs brought a great Brazilian Jujitsu Team up.  NY Open Champions – DJ Jackson and Frank Camacho were on the mats.  New Purple Belt, Brazilian Nationals Champion, and Pan Am Champion, Willie Leonard was there crushing people with his top pressure.  We also had veteran purple belt Lenny Maggio and new flexi-guard addition, Andris Brunovskis training. 

Evolve Academy sent Pan-American Silver Medalist, Kenny Brown, and NY Open Womens Champion, Rachel Demara.  The Womens BJJ squad was joined by Nyjah Easton and Rita Floyd (Nyjah will be starting a Washington DC Childrens Program in the Summer).   From Leo Dalla’s, we had Kevin and Levi Sadr make the trip up. 

The training was simple – non-stop matches for 2 hours.  Everyone got good work in with a variety of training partners.  One of the benefits of having a strong team right in the area is the availability of high-level training partners who can all push each other to the next level.  Look for a strong performance from Team Lloyd Irvin at the Worlds in a few weeks!