Team Lloyd Irvin – America’s Jiu Jitsu Team traveled to Lisbon Portugal to compete in the 2012 European Open this past week.

The Hunt for Gold

There’s only one thing on any of these competitors minds… that’s to strike gold.

But then again, that’s what any serious competitor wants… only wants.

The First Gold Medal For Team Lloyd Irvin At This Year’s European Open

Cathy Tran-Zwanetz of Team Lloyd Irvin- Crazy 88 BJJ wins the Female Blue Belt Light-Feather division.

Cathy Being Crowned Champion

In her first two matches she passed the guard, mounted, and finished with Ezekiel choke. The next two matches would be 7-0.

Katy Torralbas of Team Lloyd Irvin- Third Law BJJ took Silver at Female Blue Belt

Doubling It Up In The Purple Belt Division

Keenan's Ultra-Artsy photo of his Double-Gold Medals

Keenan “The Cobra” Cornelius of Team Lloyd Irvin Camp Springs had an incredible showing. His slick jiu jitsu was able to earn him coveted “double-shwubble” or the Double-Gold, winning both his Purple belt middle weight division and the Purple belt Absolute!

The Cobra On The Attack!

Sijara “Sarj in Charge” from Camp Springs was able to double up with two silvers in the female purple belt division.

The Brown Belts Rack It UP!

Willie Leonard of Camp Springs wins the 2012 European Brown Belt Ultra Heavyweight Champion winning all of his matches by submission, closing the finals out with a Clock Choke. In the open division he ends up with the bronze after defeating 4 of his opponents.

Roberto Torralbas of Team Lloyd Irvin- Third Law BJJ finished with double bronze.

Teammates Roberto Torralbas and Willie Leonard take Bronze in the Brown Belt Absolute

Nyjah Easton of Team Lloyd Irvin- Camp Springs, to no surprise, has an impressive showing winning the the 2012 European Womens Brown Belt Pluma Division and taking home the bronze medal in the absolute.

At The Black Belt Level

JT “The Spiderman” Torres takes home the silver medal in the lightweight division.

Overall the women of Team Lloyd Irvin placed 2nd with only 4 competitors.

The American Blue belts win the Team Contest

The Lloyd Irvin representatives included: Joey Ruggiero from Third Law, Al Washington and Devon Delbrugge from Crazy 88, and Eric Desmaris from Paramont BJJ. They were joined by a grappler from Rafael Lovato’s school named Dallas.

In a team of 5 Americans, 4 were from Team Lloyd Irvin, fight to see which country brought the best blue belts to do battle. The Americans fought four rounds and won the gold in the Team Event.

Devon Delbrugge After Winning His Match For Team USA

Next up in the grand slam for America’s Jiu Jitsu Team… Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championships

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When it comes to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, there is not another gym in the ENTIRE COUNTRY that has a track record like Team Lloyd Irvin.

Since 1996 Lloyd Irvin’s PG County BJJ Academy has produced multiple:

• World Champions (Gi & No-Gi)
• Pan-American Champions (Gi & No-Gi)
• Brazilian National Champions
• American National Champions
• European Open Champions
• Asian Open Champions
• Judo National Champions
• Judo Olympians
• ….plus dozens of other Team Titles and Championships

What this enormous array of accolades ensures for you, the prospective student, is that by joining Lloyd Irvin’s PG County BJJ Academy, you’ll receive the VERY BEST instruction. Even if you have no desire to compete, you will have a benefit of knowing that the techniques taught are working at the absolute highest level. You will also have the opportunity to train with some of the best BJJ practitioners in the world.

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Team Lloyd Irvin is rewriting the record books for American BJJ, accumulating accolades in the highest levels of competition.

Our systems have been proven time and time again, as they continue to take the technical ability of many a grappler to the next level.

On the mats in Camp Springs, Maryland at any given time you’ll find:

• BJJ World Champions
• NO-GI Submission Wrestling World Champions
• Judo Olympians
• Sombo National Champions
• NCAA Wrestlers
• BJJ American National Champions
• BJJ Brazilian National Champions
• BJJ European Champions
• BJJ Pan-American Champions

At our academy you’ll not only find the best competitors, you’ll find the best instructors. The results don’t lie. Even if you’ve never grappled a day in your life the techniques will be broken down to their basic, easy-to-understand elements so that you can learn this awesome art as fast as possible.

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TLI at the UFC and 2011 Pan Jiu Jitsu Championship

This past weekend, we had our hands full here at Team Lloyd Irvin.

It all started off on Thursday with the  2011 Pan Jiu Jitsu Champions in Irvine, California.

Team Lloyd Irvin made IBJJF History by being the first American Academy to place in the Adult Team Standings at the Pan BJJ Championships. Out of all the academies in attendance, the Lloyd Irvin Network took second place overall and third in the female category.

Check Out The Team Lloyd Irvin 2011 Pan Jiu Jitsu Results:

• White Belt Adult Female
  • Christine Castro
    • 1st place Light Feather
  • Monica Barlow
    • 3rd place Feather
  • Cassandra Boswell
    • 2nd place Middle
• Blue Belt Juvenile 2
  • Devon Delbrugge
    • 2nd place Medium Heavy
    • 2nd place Absolute
• Blue Belt Adult
  • Jeremiah West
    • 2nd place Feather
  • Alfonso Washington
    • 3rd place Ultra Heavy
    • 3rd place Absolute
• Purple Belt Adult
  • De’Alonzio “DJ” Jackson
    • 2nd place Middle
    • 2nd place Absolute
  • Evan Gideon
    • 3rd place Heavy
  • Kenneth Brown
    • 2nd place Ultra Heavy
  • Willie Leonard
    • 1st place Ultra Heavy
    • 1st place Absolute
• Purple Belt Female
  • Rachel Demara
    • 1st place Middle
    • 2nd place Absolute
  • Sijara Eubanks
    • 1st place Absolute
    • 2nd place Medium Heavy
  • Nicole Decker
    • 3rd place Medium Heavy
• Purple belt Senior 2
  • Floyd Naughton
    • 3rd place Heavy
• Brown Belt Adult
  • Jimmy Harbison
    • 1st place Middle
    • 3rd place Absolute
  • Roberto Torralbas
    • 3rd place Medium Heavy
• Brown Belt Senior 1
  • Chad Washburn
    • 1st place Light Feather
  • Michael Harris
    • 3rd place Ultra Heavy
    • 3rd place Absolute
• Brown Belt Senior 3
  • Michael Atkin
    • 1st place Heavy
• Black Belt Adult
  • Jonathan “JT” Torres
    • 3rd place Light
• Black Belt Senior 1
  • Shawn Hammonds
    • 2nd place Middle

UFC ULTIMATE FIGHT NIGHT 24

On Saturday night, Master Lloyd was in Seattle, Washington to corner Phil Davis, in his headline bout against MMA Legend “Minotouro” Antonio Rogerio Nogueira. Mr. Wonderful was more than ready for the challenge.

Phil was able to work almost every aspect of his mixed martial arts game. In the first round Minotouro was able to defend Davis’ takedown attempts. Phil stayed focused on the task at hand and continued to showcase the improvements in his striking.

The second round saw a slight adjustment in strategy that opened the flood gates for Phil’s attack. In the first round Phil Davis worked for double leg take downs, but in the second he switched to a single leg and exposed a hole in Lil Nog’s game.

When the fight hit the mats, Phil worked his ferocious ground and pound on the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt. Mr. Wonderful also demonstrated his tremendous pressure from top, not giving any space for his opponent to work. Davis continued his dominant performance into the final round, winning with a unanimous decision.

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Wilson Wins at  the Bellator Mixed Martial Arts Event!

Wilson Reis was victorious in the quarterfinals of Bellator’s featherweight tournament, with a dominant performance over Team Quest’s Zac George.

45 seconds into the first round Wilson erupted on his opponent with a series of strikes. Reis remained relentless in his attack. As George defended, the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt closed the distance, and snatched up a single leg. Wilson wasted no time “running the pipe“, slamming his opponent’s back onto the canvas.

After stabilizing his position on top, Reis rained down punches and hammerfists, forcing Zac George to expose his back. In an instant Wilson sank his hooks in, and continued pressuring his adversary with strikes to the head.

Two minutes in, the Sao Paulo native lassoed his fore-arm around George’s neck, cinching in a super-tight rear naked choke variation, finishing the fight.

Wilson trains out of Philadelphia with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belts Jared Weiner of BJJ United and Brad Daddis, owner of Daddis Fight Camps. Wilson is also a full-time instructor in Philly and a truly great asset to Team Lloyd Irvin.

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Team Lloyd Irvin’s Competition Preparation

The 2011 Pan’s are within two weeks. A week after that a number of Medal Chasers are flying out to the Middle East for the Abu Dhabi World Pro. Fast Forward two weeks and we’ll be in Brazil for their National Tournament. All of these tournaments are building up to the Grand Finale at the World Championships in June.

Preparing for a string of tournaments such as the one outlined above is an extremely delicate process, where one wrong move can ruin an entire year’s worth of goals and aspirations.

For the Medal Chasers, ML created a “mastermind” group of experts to maximize the potential of each individual on the team. With the likes of Strength Coach D’angelo Kinard and  ”the Recovery Doc” Rick Rosa, Master Lloyd is able to concentrate on  technical improvement, mental strength, and game-planning.

In today’s morning class, Master Lloyd had everyone rolling live competition rounds, only A-game moves.

If you’ve ever competed, you know that it’s usually much different than sparring in class. In order to replicate a more competitive setting, ML calls two people out to square off. Usually he’ll order for a stare-down, increasing the intensity of the situation. When the bell sounds, the two go at it. While the battle ensues, everyone else is screaming and cheering to emulate how it will be when you step out to compete.

Master Lloyd is always stressing the significance of mental training, and this exercise definitely does the trick. You have to deal with the same nervousness and anxiety to perform as you would when you enter any big tournament.

When it comes to competition preparation remember the 12 P’s:

“Piss Poor Preparation Promotes Piss Poor Performance, Piss Poor Performance Promotes Pain“

If you want to do well in competition you need to prepare properly, period-point-blank. You need to be honest with yourself, and realistic with the goals you set. You need to leave no stone unturned, whether it be the technical, mental or physical side of your game. If you’re lacking in any one of the three, you’re performance will suffer and you will surely endure pain.

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DESTROY JT TORRES DRILL

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning there is one mission that the Camp Springs Medal Chasers need to accomplish:

BEAT DOWN JT TORRES!

JT has one thing on his mind. A GOLD medal in the Lightweight Black Belt division atthe Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Championships.

It’s no easy task, and the only way to get on top of that podium in June is through HARD WORK!

In order to prepare JT Torres for the World’s, Master Lloyd Irvin put him in an intensive training regimen that pushes the 21 year old Black Belt to his physical and mental limits.

Today it started off with a warm-up and a light guard passing drill.

Once everyone loosened up, it was on.

This is how the Drill is set up:

• JT starts from his back
  • His goal is to get his grips, lock down a position, advance with a sweep, or submit.
• Master Lloyd sets up a passing crew made up of:
  • Black Belt and Beta Academy Instructor Nakapan Phungephorn
  • Head of the Team Lloyd Irvin Youth Program Master Donnie Achnick
  • Brown Belt Jimmy Harbison
  • Purple Belt Hammer, DJ Jackson
• The passers have 30 seconds to blast JT, Non-Stop Movement, Constant Pressure.
• After the 30 seconds is over, a fresh person jumps in for their half-minute.
• If someone gets to side control, they have to get up in front of JT Torres and pass again.

Each Round consists of 3 full rotations through the passing crew. Master Lloyd puts us in the mindset that JT Torres is a hostile enemy. With this in place it gets pretty violent.

JT Torres went through 3 Rounds of smashing, passing, and bad intentions, with a 2:30 minute break in between.

After the last person was finished, the Spiderman had to roll live for another five minutes.

While this was going on, the rest of the class did live 8 minute A-game competition rounds.

When it was all said and done, Master Lloyd pointed out some of the mistakes made during the class and had a few of the soldiers explain what happened in their rolls.

That was just the beginning, there is still a 4:30 Drilling session and another 8:30 practice.

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SERIOUS Saturday for BJJ Training in PG County

Saturday is always a SUPER busy day in Camp Springs, Maryland at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy.

The day kicks off DARK and early, as the Professional Competition Team meets up before 6 AM to prepare for the Strength and Conditioning session with Coach D’Angelo Kinard. Hanging from the ceiling, you’ll see a sign stating:

“If you’re early, your on time. If you’re on time, your late!”

When the clock strikes six, the class begins and if you’re not on the floor ready to work, you’re out of luck.

The Camp Springs Crew starts off running laps around the main grappling mat, warming up the body.

From there we blast right into the workout, which incorporates an array of fully body exercises including push-ups, mountain climbers, “Speed Skaters”, shadow boxing, pummeling with a partner….the list goes on.

D’Angelo is a true master of motivation, with a unprecedented style of strength and conditioning that’s completely unique.

He makes the work out unpredictable, which keeps an individual’s body guessing. This also simulates a combat situation where you never really know what will happen next.

After an hour of intensive, HARD WORK, D’Angelo wraps it up with a team stretch.

The Judo class is scheduled for 11 AM, so most of the Medal Chasers take the 4 -hour break to rest up or eat.

The Lloyd Irvin Judo Program is taught by Suldbayar Damdin, a 2004 Olympian hailing from Mongolia.

“Sugi” is a wizard on his feet, with an immense knowledge of effective techniques, tricks, and throws.

Directly following Judo is the Combat Gold Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Class. This class is a long haul, lasting from noon to around 3 o’clock PM.

Master Lloyd Irvin was traveling, so Team Lloyd Irvin Black Belt JT “Spiderman” Torres was in charge. After a thorough warm-up, JT gave the orders.

1-hour of back attack drilling, with partners switching every 5 minutes.

Before we started, JT Torres broke down the specific details of his back taking process to bring everyone up to speed.

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The hour was over in a flash and everyone increased their back taking potential drastically. Now it was time for sparring.

8 – 8 minute rounds, back-to-back.

Everyone kept up an awesome pace, and finished strong.

It was a LONG, arduous week of training in preparation for an extremely busy competition schedule.

The Camp Springs Medal Chasers will be traversing the globe, with the 2011 Pan Am’s at the end of March, Abu Dhabi World Pro in April, Brazilian National’s in May, and the World Championships capping it off in June.

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If you’re looking for MMA in Maryland, look no further. Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts is with out a doubt the best Academy for MMA in Maryland.

All we do is win

MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts. This usually refers  to taking the most effective martial arts such as Muay Thai, Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and merging them to have a complete understanding of a combat engagement no matter where the fight takes you. the striking arts of Muay Thai and Boxing train you to deliver devastating kick knees punches and elbows. Training Judo and Wrestling to dominate and control whether the fight stays on the feet or goes to the ground, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu the “magic” art form which will allow you to defeat adversary’s that may be bigger, stronger or faster, by using leverage and technique to apply chokes and joint locks to end a fight quickly and efficiently.  In an art form where knowledge is key, it’s crucial that you have a qualified instructor who has put in the time on the mats to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the science behind the sport. Master Lloyd Irvin’s has been broken down the most effective techniques and formulated systems to increase learning and effectiveness. These techniques have been tested in battle! Just ask any one of Lloyd Irvin’s roster of mma stars. UFC fighters Phil Davis, Brandon Vera or UFC Bantam weight champion Dominick Cruz. You just cant argue with those results. Master Lloyd Irvin dominates MMA in Maryland!

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Abu Dhabi World Pro Montreal Trial Results

On  Saturday February 26th, 2011 hungry competitors amassed in Montreal, Quebec to shoot their shot at an all-expense paid trip to the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu Jitsu Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

With the Big Show approaching in early April, Team Lloyd Irvin would not miss out on a chance to add a few more medal chasers into the mix in Abu Dhabi.

Here’s how it went down:

• Jeremiah West won his weight class in the blue belt category.
• De’Alonzio “DJ” Jackson was on fire, after an astounding Double Gold purple belt performance, winning his weight class and the absolute, and taking the ticket to Abu Dhabi
• Rachel Demara took second in the under 138 lbs female purple/brown/black belt
• Sijara Eubanks picked up a Silver medal in the over 138 lb purple/brown/black female division.
• Brown Belt Jimmy Harbison took the 83 kg Black/Brown Division, securing his plane ticket to the United Arab Emirates.

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