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Posts Tagged ‘Brazilian JiuJitsu’
Recently, several Black Belts from Team Lloyd Irvin traveled hours to Lisbon, Portugal to compete in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu European Championships. Jim Harbison, one of Team Lloyd Irvin’s newest members placed 3rd! Mike Fowler and JT “Spider Man” Torres both won their first matches and lost in the 2nd round.
For those of you who follow Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, you all know who Michael Langhi is. He is BJJ Black Belt under multiple time World Champion, Cobrinha. He started BJJ in 2001, at the age of 19 winning his first Mundial’s as a Blue Belt. In 2006, he won as a purple, 2007, as brown belt, and in 2009, he took the victory of Gilbert Durinho Burns, winning as a Black Belt. In 2009, every tournament that Langhi entered, he won!
With that being said, JT “Spider Man” Torres was set to fight Michael Langhi in the 2nd round of the Europeans. They had a great match, JT lost by advantage. I spoke with JT and he said it was a great experience, and now he knows what he needs to work on for the biggest tournament of all, Worlds. That match really gave him a boost of confidence and he is excited for the Worlds. He know he will face him again, and the results will be different. With only 5 months left until the World Championships, that was a warm up round for JT, he is training harder than ever.
Pan Ams is coming up in the beginning of April, JT and Jimmy will be here training with us for the whole month of March! There will be some good training, and great videos up as well. Check out the video below, this is JT hanging at my house. We just got done training, and he decides to give a speech about penguins! I am sure I will be hearing a lot more penguin talk when he gets here in a few weeks! Jiu-Jitsu NERDS!
Tomorrow we will be heading up to Crazy 88 to get some jiu-jitsu in! It’s going to be a good time! If you are going to be near Crazy 88 up in Elkridge, stop by and get some great training!
I am about to take the Brazilian JiuJitsu class here in Camp Springs and I am looking forward to it. Competition is a few days away and I am more than excited. In the morning class, we worked on guard passing and I got a good sweat in.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are some of the busiest days here at Lloyd Irvin‘s Mixed Martial Arts. Between the after school and classes, there are people coming and going constantly, which is a good thing. Our kids program is awesome! On Tues./Thurs., we have the 6-6:30 class for the 3-4 yr. old, and there are so many little kids in that class. Which can only mean more potential stars. If you or your child is interested in Mixed Martial Arts, come over here to Camp Springs Maryland and check out our facility. For more information about our program, you can check out www.lloydirvin.com
Mike Fowler leaves for Lisbon tomorrow with some of the other guys. If you don’ t know who Mike Fowler is, he is a BJJ black belt under Master Lloyd and has recently located back here to Maryland after being gone for 2 years.
When Mike Fowler first started competing he had asked Master Lloyd how he got into Gracie Mag. Master Lloyd explained that you basically need to be unique, stand out! That’s exactly what Mike Fowler wanted as far as his BJJ career. He started experimenting with hair dye, after much practice, he found something that stuck, leopard spots. Now, he colors his hair for most of the Brazilian JiuJitsu Tournaments. So, tonight after the evening practice, I will dye his hair and I will post pictures later!
Stay tuned to hear how the guys do in Europeans, and I will keep you posted with updates for The Abu Dhabi Trials. Keep up the good training!
I have this website bookmarked on my computer and it is called stumble. Every time you click the button a new website pops up. You also have the option to choose which topics you want the browser to search. As I was on it today, there were some photos that I came across that were from Shibuya, Japan. It reminded me of when I went to Japan in 2008 with the team from Guam to compete in the Asian Open.
The Asian Open was the first big tournament that I had ever competed in. JT Torres came out a few days before we left and he stayed with us. We got some good training in and he got acclimated to the weather/time before we headed out to Japan. We brought a fairly big team with us that year, and I know this year, 2009 they had at least 30+ guys. It’s nice to have such a large group going to international tournaments and competing. Now only if we could get a group that big to make it down to Brazil. In about 2 weeks, there is a large group of guys from Team Lloyd Irvin heading out to Europeans! That will be exciting, I can’t wait to see what happens!
I was only 1 of 2 females who went along on the trip to compete. This year 3 of the Purebred/Lloyd Irvin girls went and competed. The day before the tournament, we got to train at Purebred Omiya which was really neat. When we arrived at the Purebred Academy in Omiya, it was nice to see that they had a Team Lloyd Irvin sticker right there on the front door. They welcomed us with open arms, and let us train as long as we wanted.
We stayed at an awesome hostel Asakusa, and being that we had so many teammates, we took up the whole floor. The food was great and so was the sight seeing. We went to this bathhouse that was awesome, I am wishing I was in it right now to soak my back in. They had these vending machines that sold hot coffee, cocoa, and this corn soup in a can! These vending machines were also about 15 ft. away from one another, they were everywhere, oh and not to mention all of the crepe stands!
All together the trip was great! I won my division and lost my second match in the absolute. Mike Fowler won the absolute division, fighting Marcos de Souza in the finals. The team took 3rd place overall. This year the team won 1st place overall! It was an honor to train and compete in the Land of the Rising Sun. Also, to see where the martial art originated from. If you have never been there, I would recommend taking a trip, and also try to fit in some Brazilian JiuJitsu training as well.
Budokan, Where the Asian Open was held
Copa Nova is right around the corner and this morning I get hurt! 
Really, it was just a tweak in my lower back, but I am in pain! It’s more scary than anything, I don’t ever want to injure it again and end up in the same situation I was in before. So my question is now, do I take the night off and rest my body? Or, should I be EXTRAORDINARY and train tonight?
On the other hand, I have been wanting more girls to come in and train and last night there was a total of 5 girls on the mat for the Brazilian JiuJitsu advanced class. Not a great number, but I know that people are getting back into the swing of things and getting situated for the New Year.
Elyse Goldberg is one of our purple belts who teaches and trains under Nakapan(BETA Martial Arts), she came out to train. She also mentioned that she will be trying to make it every Monday which is really nice! Rolling with different people from different schools is great, you get a chance to test your techniques against them.
Keep your eye out for Lutadoras de Elite in 2010. Team Lloyd Irvin females are going to be the next big hit. Watch Out!
For 2010, I plan to rebuild the women’s team here at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts. So if you are a female and interested in MMA, BJJ, Muay Thai Kickboxing, we are open to anyone who wants to train.
Being that MMA is becoming more accepted in the world, more Women will continue to do it also, and the same goes for Brazilian JiuJitsu. Any female who has an interest in fighting or mixed martial arts should get into it now! The sport is growing and soon enough, it will probably be the biggest sport worldwide.
Kelsey Desanti was Team Lloyd Irvin‘s first female to fight in MMA. Kelsey started mixed martial arts at the age of 16 and she has also started brazilian jiujitsu here at the academy. She had a goal to fight MMA, she stuck to her plan, made her debut and showed what Team Lloyd Irvin has to offer. If you want to check out where Kelsey trained, click here.
We also have Kerry Vera who is Brandon Vera’s wife. She recently fought Kim Couture making her debut in Strikeforce, knocking her out in the first round. I was actually fortunate enough to go out and train with Kerry and work on her ground and pound for that fight. She is a very talented martial artist and you should definitely keep your eye for this upcoming female. Kerry is a humble and down to earth person who is really set on her goals and a strong person. She is a great example for women in MMA.
Make sure to check out these video’s on Kelsey and Kerry.
