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It was another exciting and very successful weekend for Team Lloyd Irvin. Master Lloyd and several of the competitors headed out to Boston to compete in the Grappler’s Quest event that was held during the UFC/MMA Fan Expo.
On Friday the event ran all of the No Gi matches, and 2 superfights. On Saturday they continued with the Gi matches and 2 more super fights. Upstairs from the Grappler’s Quest Event was the Expo with all of the UFC Fighters signing autographs at their stands and giving away prizes.
Tracey Goodell fought Penny Thomas Friday in a super fight match. A tough match for Tracey Goodell and a great learning experience as well, she lost on points, 2-0. A barn burning match. On Saturday Willie Leonard and Andris Brunovskis closed out the purple belt absolute division taking home the prize money. Sijara Eubanks made her purple belt debut taking third in the womens NO GI advanced and winning the women’s absolute division in the gi! Jimmy Harbison also won the brown belt absolute division in the gi. Anene Wynn won her abosolute division in the gi as well!
Great weekend and Great results!
Tonight Anene was promoted to the rank of blue belt! Congrats to her, she has been working hard.
Today we had another great morning session in Camp Springs, MD. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt Dustin “Clean” Denes is here at the Lloyd Irvin Headquarters and he was in charge of the 10 AM no-gi submission wrestling class. The class was mixed with beginners, wrestlers, MMA fighters, and advanced Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners, so Clean had his hands full. He split us up into whichever category we belonged and began working on techniques. Team Lloyd Irvin purple belt Andris Brunovskis and I drilled a triangle set-up from butterfly guard. Professional mixed martial artists J.C. Cuffee and Frank “The Crank” Camacho along with the novice Brazilian Jiu Jitsu students were working a guillotine series from the top. We continued to drill the positions until it was time for our workout.
The Team Lloyd Irvin strength and conditioning coach is none other than D’Angelo Kinard, owner of Advanced Sports Performance. D’Angelo is at our Camp Springs, MD location 3 times a week pushing all the competitors to their physical limits. If you want to get in shape Advanced Sports Performance is the way to go. Most of the team is getting ready for the Grapplers Quest in Boston; so today the workout was an all around cardio booster. Without the use of any weights or devices the crew threw down hard for an hour straight employing squats, crunches, push-ups, lunges, and a various assortment of pulse pounding exercises.
The conditioning class isn’t limited just to fighters and competitors. Alyshia Branson, leader and drill sergeant of Lloyd Irvin’s Super Woman Fitness Boot Camp, gives it her all every workout. Now it’s time to rest up a little bit before the rest of the training sessions today consisting of wrestling at 5:30, a 6:30 teen Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class, and finally the Combat Gold Club program at 8:30.
Last Friday Master Lloyd Irvin had an MMA Millionaire event that went great!! Instructors and school owners came from all over to see him in action! Check it out below!
This weekend was the Chicago Open and Team Lloyd Irvin did great!
Crazy 88 Brazilian Jiu jitsu, located in Elkridge Maryland took out a group from the team to compete. Everyone did a great job, Congrats!
Brad Pearson gets a choke from side mount and is Chicago open purple belt champion.
Timmy Spriggs is Chicago open blue belt open champion.
Cathy and Kim meet in the finals of their division, Kim goes on to become the Open Weight Champion.
And Big Sal takes silver in his division.
Jon and Brad close out the purple belt division.
