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July 29, 2009
2009 Brazil Camp
1:38 pm
July 13, 2009
2009 Florida BJJ Championship Results
 Our team did very good this weekend. That was the first time I sent students
to the Florida Championship since I started, for good, teaching BJJ in Florida in July 2007. The results are a tiny fraction
of our true potential as you can see that 60% of the athletes that signed up got a medal and 3 students got 1st Place, which
corresponds to 25% of the team that represented us. No excuses but I must say that we would probably get 2 or 3 more Golds
if the BJJ in Florida were big enough to cover some divisions as 3 of our students had to move up to other divisions.
- Kane Takacs dug the Gold on the 15 years old heavy weight division and is now undefeated for 10 straight fights.
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Joel Bellemare did his homework bringing the Gold winning 2 difficult fights by points. Showed self-control during all the
fights. No mistakes = 1st place!
- Ol-Lu Torres, the first girl to fight in the tournament got the Gold with an incredible
score of 18 x 0 and an armbar in the end! (WBJJA Orlando)
- Gage Takacs that is 13 years old (5 months of training) had
to fight with a yellow and an orange belt 15 years old. That was one of the best fights of the tournament as he still attempted
a Fly Armbar on the orange belt on the fist 10 seconds of the fight. Very good skills, courage but more than that: trust and
dedication.
- Thomas Bloomfield, had to fight in the heavier division as did not make weight. Dominated in the final
match but let it go in the end letting the big guy mount him. Lesson learned and still took a 2nd place.
- Mario Roa
dug the 2nd place very well. I think the guilotine was the fastest submission of the day. The kid in the final match was much
bigger and there was nothing that could be done. Mario is training for 4 months only.
- Martha Castleberry were bumped
to a 20 lbs heavier female division and she fought brave, that was a real battle.
- Joe Dinardi managed to make 3rd
place even though he was clearly tired after the first fight. Did a great job!
- Andrew Sorichetti did a great fight.
I though he had the guy on the guillotine. Sometimes you need to let it go and move on to a better position. That was a regular
white belt match. Learn from that and better results will come.
- Dylan Roa did very good but lost by 1 advantage
a boring fight where the opponent was keeping the guard closed and 3/4 minutes is really fast. Next time we will open this
guard somehow!
- Robert Lowenstein never competed and asked to go anyways. Did very good winning one fight.
- Ryan
Lee had a bad day getting the strongest guy in his division on the first match. Need to cut weight and go down 2 weight divisions
to take advantage of his style.
I think the Florida Ranking we implemented this year was of great help
in order to better prepare our athletes. Everyone did a great job and corresponded to my expectations - You sweat and bled
to defend and honor our name - There was not a single fight of our students that I wasn't proud. I think this result will
help us to be stronger and bigger for the next one. Again, except for Ryan and Thomas all the other students train under 5
months only and twice a week!!!!
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OFFICIAL CALENDAR SEMINARS & TOURNAMENTS 2010
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JANUARY 28,
29, 30 & 31 European Open Jiu-Jitsu Championship Lisboa, Portugal FEBRUARY 27 Pan American Kids Championship Los Angeles, CA MARCH 6 Sarasota BJJ Open Sarasota, FL APRIL 8, 9, 10 & 11 Pan American
Jiu-Jitsu Championship Los Angeles, CA MAY 1 New York International Open New York City, NY Sarasota BJJ Open Sarasota, FL 8, 9 , 15 & 16 Brazilian Nationals Championship Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 21 WBJJA Instructor's Clinic (All day) Sarasota, FL 22 Florida State Championship Kissimmee, FL 30 Internal
Tournament Puerto Rico JUNE 3, 4, 5 & 6 World Jiu-Jitsu
Championship Long Beach, CA - USA JULY 22, 23, 24 & 25 International
of Masters & Seniors Rio de Janeiro - Brasil AUGUST 14 American National Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Long Beach, CA 28 Internal Tournament Brandon, MS 29 Internal Tournament Puerto
Rico SEPTEMBER 4 Sarasota BJJ Open Sarasota,
FL ? American National Championship Los Angeles, CA OCTOBER 2 Pan American No-Gi Championship New York City, NY - USA 23 Miami International Open Miami, FL NOVEMBER ? World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship Long Beach, CA DECEMBER 3 WBJJA Instructor's Clinic (All day) Sarasota, FL 4 Sarasota BJJ Open - Finals Sarasota, FL 5 Internal
Tournament Puerto Rico
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