BJJ 2010 AGENDA:

Set your 2010 Jiu-Jitsu agenda
by Marcelo Dunlop — December 29, 2009.
January
European Jiu-Jitsu Championship
28th-31st
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.ibjjf.org/
World Pro JJ Cup West Coast Trials
24th
Santa Cruz, California, USA
http://www.abudhabibjj.com/
World Pro JJ Cup East Coast Trials
31st
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
http://www.nafafighters.com/

February
Pan Kids Jiu-Jitsu Championship
27th and 28th
Carson, California, USA
http://www.ibjjf.org/

March

Emirates team bjj cup

5 march

http://www.emiratesone.com/
Long Island Pride BJJ
7th
Flushing, Nova York, USA
http://www.lipridebjj.com/
Arizona Open BJJ
13th and 14th
Mesa, Arizona, USA
http://www.azsbjjf.com/
World Pro JJ Cup Brazil Trials
14th to 20th
Brazil

April
Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship
8th to 11th
Irvine, California, USA
http://www.ibjjf.org/
World Pro JJ Cup
15th – 17th
Abu Dhabi, Arab Emirates

http://www.fijja.org/
Southern Brazil Jiu-Jitsu Championship
24th and 25th
Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/

May
America Cup
1st and 2nd
Los Gatos, California, USA
http://www.usopenbjj.com/
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Nationals
8th, 9th, 15th and 16th
Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/

June
Jiu-Jitsu World Championship
3rd – 6th
Long Beach, California, USA
http://www.ibjjf.org/
Long Island Pride No-Gi BJJ
13th
Long Island, New York, USA
http://www.lipridebjj.com/

July
Southeastern Brazil Jiu-Jitsu Championship
3rd and 4th
Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/
Master & Senior Jiu-Jitsu Championship
22nd to 25th
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/
Rio Open
22nd to 25th
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/

August
No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu American Nationals
14th
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.ibjjf.org/

RAMADAN AFOC abu dhabi cup

http://www.emiratesone.com/

September
Asiatic Jiu-Jitsu Championship
11th and 12th
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.ibjjf.org/
Long Island Pride BJJ
12th
Long Island, Nova York, EUA
http://www.lipridebjj.com/
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Team Nationals
25th
Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/

October
US Open
15th – 17t
Santa Cruz, California, USA
http://www.usopenbjj.com/
Miami International Open
23rd
Miami, Florida
http://www.ibjjf.org/
Brazilian No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu Nationals
30th
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/

November
South American Jiu-Jitsu Championship
20th and 21st
Santa Catarina, Brazil
http://www.ibjjf.org/

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W PRO USA TRIALS:

World Pro BJJ Trials USA
The biggest and best pro BJJ event in the World is just around the corner and the best way to go is by winning one of the trial events held around the World. The USA will host its own qualifiers. Two qualifiers will be held this year. One on the East Coast, with the help of Professor Helio Soneca, and on the West Coast, where we have the experienced Cláudio França, who is responsible for the US Open and American Cup, in the organizing committee.

The East Coast event will take place in Boca Raton, Florida, at the FAU gymnasium, on January 31. And the one in California will be held at the Santa Cruz Civic Center on January 24.
The six champions of the adult purple/brown/black belt weight divisions will join the female champions and light and heavyweight white/blue belt absolute champions. The athletes will receive an all-expense-paid trip to compete in Abu Dhabi in April.
Anyone interested can sign up on the websites:
East Coast: www.nafafighters.com
West Coast: www.abudhabibjj.com

We would like to remind everyone that in the main event, to compete for places in the Arab Emirates, only athletes from the United States, Canada or who have green cards will be allowed to participate.
In the AMATUER, juvenile, master & senior divisions, however, the event is open to everybody.

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H.H. SHEIKH ZAYED BIN MANSOOR BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN AND CARLOS SANTOS in

ASIAN JIU-JITSU SUPER CUP, DECEMBER 2009

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WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JU-JITSU AND BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU ?

JU-JITSU
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morganti_ju-jitsu
http://www.gatame.com.br/brasil/gatame/?pagina=mjj

BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu
http://www.cbjj.com.br/hjj.htm

FIJJA -1

1 JANUARY START THE NEW WORLD JIU-JITSU FEDERATION
TO PROMOTE THE WORLD PROFESSIONAL JIU-JITSU CIRCUIT AND TRY MAKE BJJ OLYMPIC SPORT IN THE FUTURE.
THANKS TO: UAE, BRASIL, USA, CANADA, SPAIN, JAPAN, NEW ZELANDIA, AUSTRALIA, UK, BELGIUM, SOUTH AFRICA, JORDAN, BAHRAIN, SAUDI ARAB AND CHINA.
www.fijja.org

COPA NOVA BJJ:

http://www.copanovabjj.com/

next ufcs:

ADCC Israel open 2010 ADCC Returning to Israel for the Second Year in a Row
In February 27The Event will be held in The City of Holon , Givat Hatakmoshet 27 in the Stadium HaPaies, Kiryat Sheret.
Doors open at 09:00am.
For any other information regarding the event, please contact the tournament organizer Haim Gozali at adcc_israel@walla.com

LV:

Date: January, 18-22nd, 2010
Time: 8-9:30pm daily
Location: Fight Zone USA
1860 Obispo Ave. #E, Signal Hill, CA 90755

Rate: $100 if enrolled by the end of December 2009 and a member of either Fight Zone, Check-Mat, or VB Team. $150 for all non members in December. $150 for team members and $200 for all non members in January.
For more information, go to: http://www.fightzoneusa.com/ or e-mail us at fightzoneusa@gmail.com "

ZONE CUP 2010

NEW DIVISION FOR THE SCHOOL JIU-JITSU
ZONE CUP PROGRAM 2010:
01 MARCH ABU DHABI ZONE JIU-JITSU CUP
03 MARCH AL AIN ZONE JIU-JITSU CUP
08 MARCH WEST ZONE JIU-JITSU CUP

SCHOOL-JITSU DIVISION:
-30KG, -34KG, -38KG, -42KG, -47KG, -52KG, -57KG, -62KG, +62KG

GWC:

Grappling World Championships
December 11-13, 2009
Ft. Lauderdale FL
MARCOS OLIVEIRA, EMIRATES TEAM COACH,

TAKE GOLD MEDAL IN GI DIVISION

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The Greatest MMA Photos of 2009

The final resting place of BJJ godfather Helio Gracie

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Al Faroouq School Liwa West Region
jiu-jitsu cup 2009

WEST COAST

Sunday, January 24, 2010 - Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA

Nine lucky winners will receive an all expense paid trip to Abu Dhabi in April for the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu Jitsu Cup where they will vie for more than $150,000 in prize money.
Registration is now open at www.abudhabibjj.com

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ASIAN SUPER CUP 2009 IN

NEWSPAPERS

euro-uk trial

Europeans over, now it’s time for North Americans to try out for Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Pro – European Trails

The first European Trial for The Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiujitsu Cup 2010 – second edition, happened last Saturday 12th December in UK. The Event was held on Dartford Judo Club where the British Olympic Judo Team trains.
The competition had 180 athletics from the different parts of Europe like England, France, Spain, Portugal, Polonia, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Irland, Scotland… and around 380 spectators who filled the entire place to see the best European jiu-jitsu fighters fighting for a place on the World Abu Dhabi Pro 2010.

The event started at 8:30 am with weigh in and at 9:45 the competition started with white belts first. Followed by blue belts, female absolute, then purple, brown and black belt.
And in the end, the very disputed white belt absolute had as a big fighter Daniel Agard, who won 2 categories. Blue 73 kg and absolute 73 kg.

The athetics who will be fighting on the Second Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiujitsu Cup 2010 are:
Division A Purple/Brown/Black Belt -65 kg
1- Jedrzej Loska - RGA Vie

Division A Purple/Brown/Black Belt -74 kg
1- Thibaut Oliver - Gokudo

Division A Purple/Brown/Black Belt -83 kg
1- Henrique Santana - Gracie Barra

Division A Purple/Brown/Black Belt -92 kg
1- Nicholas Gregoriades - RGA

Division A Purple/Brown/Black Belt +92 kg
1- Julian Genin - Fight Club Cassis

Division B Absolute - 73kg
1- Daniel Agard - BJJ School

Division B Absolute + 73kg
1- Vasile Panfil - RGA

Division C Females -63kg
1- Talvard Océane - Behiring Cercle Tissier

Division C Females +63kg
1- Monica V. da Silva - Sandro Bala e Julio

The results can be seen on the web site http://www.abudhabi-pro.co.uk/
More than an event well organized by Brazil’s Zé Marcello and England’s Jude Samuel, the European tryout for the World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Cup was proof how Jiu-Jitsu is conquering ever-more peoples, cultures and nationalities.
Around the world, the other tryouts continue. If the World Cup Pro already has its qualified athletes from Australia, New Zealand, England and South Africa, the one responsible for the qualifiers in the United States is Renato Tavares, our GMA and leader of ATT in Vero Beach.

“Two qualifiers will be held this year. One on the East Coast, with the help of Professor Helio Soneca, and on the West Cuast, where we have the experienced Cláudio França, who is responsible for the US Open and American Cup, in the organizing committee,” says Renato.

The East Coast event will take place in Boca Raton, Florida, at the FAU gymnasium, on January 31. And the one in California will be held at the Santa Cruz Civic Center on January 24.

The six champions of the adult purple/brown/black belt weight divisions will join the female champions and light and heavyweight white/blue belt absolute champions. The athletes will receive an all-expense-paid trip to compete in Abu Dhabi in April.

Anyone interested can sign up on the websites:
East Coast: http://www.nafafighters.com/
West Coast: http://www.abudhabibjj.com/
“We would like to remind everyone that in the main event, to compete for places in the Arab Emirates, only athletes from the United States, Canada or who have green cards will be allowed to participate. In the amateur, juvenile, master & senior divisions, however, the event is open to everybody,” explains Renato

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AFRICAN TRIALS:

The African Trials gathered 102 athletes, coming from Angola, Madagascar, Congo, Swaziland and major cities in South Africa (Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg). Regarded as the biggest bjj comp to happen in African soil, the tournament had an excellent level, with exciting fights throughout the day. There were many white belts that should be already fighting in the blue belt. The complete results are published in this blog, and soon a highlights video will be added. See the BIG 5 that qualified to fight in Abu Dhabi next April:
Advanced: Wiekus Swart (RGC Tapout/Johannesburg – RSA)
Women: Jessica Hill (RGC Quantum Tribe/Johannesburg – RSA)
Blue Belts:
under 73 kgs: Jared Halliday (Cape Town – RSA)
under 88 kgs: Wesley George (Renzo Gracie/Cape Town – RSA)
over 88 kgs: Derrick Van Kelsen (Carlson Gracie/ Port Elizabeth – RSA)

African Trials - Abu Dhabi BJJ World Pro Cup
In 2007 I made my first visit to South Africa, part of my mission to spread BJJ all over the World. I had no idea what to expect in terms of level and number of practitioners, and to be honest I did not expect much. Then I met some people involved with BJJ, Grappling and MMA in three of the major cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
The numbers were not big, but the level was not different from what I have seen previously in North America and Europe, the problem is that the Africans did not have BJJ comps and so even the best grapplers were not familiar with rules, competition strategies and this was their major gap. Without competing, we cannot develop our best techniques and grow to the highest level. Putting it simply, someone that drives a car on the streets will never have the same reflexes and experience of a Michal Schumacher or Ayrton Senna. If you want to be the best, the only way to prove yourself, fix your mistakes and reach the highest level is by competing. So Africa needed more BJJ competitions to help the sport grow and allow its athletes to perform their games under pressure.
In 2008, Carlos Santos asked me if Africa was ready to receive trials for Abu Dhabi. Fearing that numbers would be very small, I asked him to wait another year to give me time to prepare the ground for this important task. Then last August, with help of my students in Johannesburg, we held a small tournament and saw that conditions were ripe for a bigger comp.
When we confirmed the Trials and its format, we started to try and contact all the countries around, to make the trials an international event. We know that BJJ is growing in Egypt and Morocco, but those countries are closer to Abu Dhabi than to South Africa, so they would not come due to the distances. We managed to find gyms in Angola and Madagascar, but it seems that most countries on Sub Saharan Africa do not have BJJ clubs yet or at least we could not find it. We put a lot of effort to convince people that our competition was for real and that it would qualify 5 people to fight the most important BJJ comp in the World, with huge money prizes. Blogs, Facebook, e-mails and posters sent, but we still did not know if people would come and fight.
We expected between 50 and 70 competitors, but when we closed the entries one week before, we had over 100 people, coming from Angola, Madagascar, all parts of South Africa and even from Congo and Swaziland. This comp would be a mark for the sport in Africa, and it was. For the first time so many fighters had the chance to fight and meet each other, and the excitement could be felt in the air.
The competition run smoothly and after 9 hours of intense battles, we had results in 25 divisions, and 5 people qualified to fly to Abu Dhabi in April, 2010.
Level was higher than expected, numbers were great, people came from all corners of South Africa and beyond, and the competition established a record as the biggest BJJ comp ever to happen in South Africa. Looking for the road works behind schedule in Johannesburg, I am not sure if the country will be ready for the football World Cup, but it is definitely ready to claim a place in the BJJ family, with Johannesburg being the place to be next December for the Second Abu Dhabi African Trials.
When people come to Africa for safaris, most want to see and take pictures of the “Big 5”, the biggest animals to roam the savannas and forests of the continent (Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Lion and Leopard). For us involved in the Trials, the Big 5 are the five winners of the Qualifiers, which will go to Abu Dhabi sponsored by FIJJA.
Wiekus Swart, Jessica Hill, Wesley George, Jared Halliday and Derrick Van Kelsen won their respective Absolute Divisions and now must train hard to fight people from around the World next April, with lot bigger chances than the SA football team in the World Cup.
http://africabjjtrials.wordpress.com

SUPER CUP 2009 RESULTS:

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
H.H. SHEIKH ZAYED BIN MOHAMMAD BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN
ASIAN JIU-JITSU SUPER CUP 2009 - ABU DHABI

White (-5 months) Under 66Kg:
1st Place - Hazem Issa - Jordan
2nd Place - Fadi Ahmad - Jordan
3rd Place - Ahmed Gharib Humaid Nasser Saeed - UAE
3rd Place - Abedalrahman Eid - Jordan

White (-5 months) Above 66Kg:
1st Place - Abdi Al Ghafar - Jordan
2nd Place - Ari Basti - Australia
3rd Place - Mohamad Naser - Jordan
3rd Place - Suliman Abdrahim - Jordan

Black Belts Under 73Kg:
1st Place - Michel Maia - Brazil
2nd Place - Samuel Hertzog - Brazil
3rd Place - Oscar Alfredo - Brazil
3rd Place - Marcelo Motta - Brazil

Black Belts Above 73Kg:
1st Place - Rafael Haubert - Brazil
2nd Place - Zumbi Larara - Brazil
3rd Place - Carlos Alexandre de Carvalho - Brazil
3rd Place - José Ferreira Junior - Brazil

White and Blue Belts Under 65Kg:
1st Place - Ali Monfaradi - Bahrain
2nd Place - Sadam Ayed - Jordan
3rd Place - Zelim Khan Kharsiev - Russian
3rd Place - Ahmed Ghlooum - UAE

White and Blue Belts Under 74Kg:
1st Place - Mohamed Naser Mohamed Saif Al Qubaisi - UAE
2nd Place - Jaber Hammad Said Hammad Al Darai - UAE
3rd Place - Tablib Saleh Mohammed Alkirbi - UAE
3rd Place - Ricky Rout - Indian

White and Blue Belts Under 83Kg:
1st Place - Mahdi Alqubisi - UAE
2nd Place - Majid Abdalla Saeed Majid Al Naqbi - UAE
3rd Place - Wesam Alahmad - Jordan
3rd Place - Salmeen Obaid Musabbeh Ghannam - UAE

White and Blue Belts Under 92Kg:
1st Place - Tammer Sameer - Jordan
2nd Place - Sami Salim - Jordan
3rd Place - Najib Al Nassar - Jordan
3rd Place - Yasan Janib - Jordan

White and Blue Belts Above 92Kg:
1st Place - Tarek Matter - Egypt
2nd Place - Faisal Fahad Ahmed Sultan Al Ketbi - UAE
3rd Place - Fouzan Alsabij - Kuwait
3rd Place - Abdul Rahman Hamad Nasser - UAE

White and Blue Belts OPEN WEIGHT:
1st Place - Tarek Matter - Egypt
2nd Place - Ali Salam Ali - UAE
3rd Place - Mohamed Nasser - UAE
3rd Place - Ahmed Alkutbi - UAE
team result:
1- EMIRATES TEAM
2- JORDAN TEAM
3- BAHRAIN TEAM

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