By Lisa Sabatini After making her debut at the Pan-Ams this year as a brown belt, Mackenzie Dern has already racked up some serious gold on the competitive grappling circuit. Dern is a 5x World Champion. Training Jiu Jitsu since the age of 3, Dern is the prodigy of her father and leader of Team Continue Reading
On April 21st at the Barrie Northern Collegiate School, the 2nd JCC Northern Regional Championships in 2012 took place. The event was really amazing, Packed with lots of talents and skilled kids from ages 5 to 17, were displaying their grappling and jiu jitsu throughout the whole day. We can only say good things about Continue Reading
This Week, we Interviewed the winner of the “find the technique of the day” contest on our Facebook Page. He is a really cool guy, Danny Stolfi and it was absolutely an honor and cool to share this time with him. Here is a bit about him, who he is, where he is from Continue Reading
By Lisa Sabatini The BJJ Expo in California this weekend was a big hit, but half of the highly anticipated main event was missing. Nick Diaz was a no show to fight against Braulio Estima. Estima flew to Long Beach from the U.K. to meet Diaz touting that he would be the first to submit Continue Reading
That’s it Grappling People, the annual Ontario Open is finally here! After a long year of waiting, this May 12th (Gi day) and May 13th (No-Gi day) is going to be awesome. It is going to be an event full of very exciting fights and the divisions are just STACKED. You can see the registrations Continue Reading
By Lisa Sabatini Saturday, March 31 was the third official day of the 2012 IBJJF Pan Ams and the first day for the black belts to step on the mats to compete. Masters, seniors and adult male and female black belt absolutes foreshadowed Sunday’s black belt finals and weight divisons. Marcus Almeida “Buchecha” (Checkmat) took Continue Reading
This past weekend in Ottawa on April 14th, was a very exciting event. An In house tournament hosted by Robert Drysdale Himself and Nabil Khatib followed by His seminar at Team Bushido. Let’s start with the morning tournament. Well, it was relatively small, but the amount of skills and style packed in the gym was Continue Reading
By Sen-Foong Lim “Combate!” - The referee’s signal to start the match So, you wanna be a fighter? Excellent! But wait – you say you’ve never competed against anyone in a combat sport before, other than your classmates and the bully in 5th grade? Dealing with a self-defense situation is somewhat different compared to competition Continue Reading
Fellow BJJ’ers and Grapplers, This weekend, the 28th of April is going to be one of the BIGGEST competition happening in Quebec, Montreal. This is an event you do NOT want to miss. If you ask yourself why, well, the answer would be straight forward and simply because not only can you compete more on Continue Reading
