Book your calendar for this great event. to register, please contact the facebook group.   Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/761103087252085/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&source=1 Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kiwigirls/ Write up on last year event: http://www.aucklandbjj.com/2013/07/new-zealang-girl-grappling-group-winter.html They are looking for expressions of interest from trainers who would like to run a seminar at our NZGG Camp. There is no payment, but they do try and offer a Koha (not very much) Unfortunately they can't take all trainers so please don't be offended as they only have a few seminar spots available. Look forward to hearing from you.   July 11 at 9:00pm until July 13 at 1:00pm Open to all women from all clubs! Where: Oliver MMA (Steve Oliver has once again come to the party and hooked us up with awesome accommodation) When: 11th July - 13th July. Cost: $150 Early Bird paid ...

It is hot of the press. Some more dates for NZ BJJ competitors. The new NZBJJL rankings serve as a means to rank competitors based on placement in NZBJJL events. Description The NZBJJL held its first edition of its All Belts League series in April 19th. The purpose of the event is to take the highest ranked NZBJJL White, Blue, Purple, Brown and Black belt competitors and match them against each other in 3 different Events and 5 different weight categories. The NZBJJL dates are: - April....................19th - July......................19th - October...............4th Also will count with a Referee Rules Seminar every Friday prior to the event. - April.....................18th - July.......................18th - October.................3rd First 3 places receive Medals in every NZBJJL event and at the end of the year the top ranked competitor will receive a big trophy and prizes. Rules are IBJJF Rules 2014. More info it will be available soon on https:/...

It is finally on. We all have been discussing their first match which Eddie submitted Royler via a triangle for the past 10 years. Eddie retired from competition and went on to open his 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu and preach his no gi gospel. For the new generation that train BJJ, they need to understand that back in the days preaching nogi training instead of gi training was never a popular topic (especially with the old school mentallity). Well, It is all good. Eddie Bravo just received his third degree Black Belt from his instructor Jean Jack Machado. The rumours in the internet is that Royler Gracie is in top shape and ready for action. What about Eddie Bravo? Is 3 months notice enough to get back into top physical shape? The metamoris match lenght is 20 minutes. It is a long time for the two seniors competitors Royler is 48 years old. He runs his academy (Gracie Humaita) out of San Diego. His latest MMA fight was in 2011. Eddie is 43 year old. he has not competed si...

The brackets have been revealed for the upcoming Copa Podio heavyweight (98kg/189.6 lbs.) jiu-jitsu tournament, scheduled for Feb. 1, 2014 inside the Botafogo Gymnasium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As expected, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) middleweight contender Alan Belcher will throw his name into the hat, drawing a first-round match-up against Abu Dhabi standout Faisal Alkitbe. And it doesn't get any easier from there. Here is the complete Copa Podio heavyweight grand prix tournament bracket and start times (via Guilherme Cruz ): Special "City Challenge" (3 p.m. ET): Magid Hage (San Diego) vs. Franco Marini (Buenos Aires) Opening Round (4 p.m. ET): (Green) Luiz Panza vs. Tim Spriggs (Green) Rico Bastos vs. Travis Stevens (Yellow) Rodolfo Vieira vs. Alexandre Souza (Yellow) Alan Belcher vs. Faisal Alkitbe Second Round (4:40 p.m. ET): (Green) Rico Bastos vs. Luiz Panza (Green) Leo Nogueira vs. Tim Spriggs (Yellow) Rodolfo Vieira vs. Faisal ...

The topic of the day was turtle. The warm up consisted of guard re composition and reversal from the turtle position. The technique of the day was back take of your opponent is on the turtle position. The training concluded with 30 minutes of sparring. Thursday will be gi training. The topic will be questions and answers.

I just finished watching the wolf of Wall Street. It was a good movie. It got me thinking about Jiu Jitsu and the people involved in the sport. BJJ is becoming popular and lot of schools are opening all around the world. Last year, a scandal erupted with a famous gym owner in the USA that made the headlines due to his student’s indiscretions. While you cannot blame him for what his students did, the public suddenly gave the revelations of his shady past. What intrigued me the most was he manipulated people around him to become famous and popular.  His strategy was very similar to the person in the movie; he treats students as marks and just wants their money. He hides behind the nice image of a martial artist but really he wants their hard earned cash. Some of the strategies were to get them in the gym and use hard sales strategies to close the deal. It starts with nice website with special promotions and then offers a cheaper deal to f...

That video has been a hit on the net and youtube. Personally, I thought it was a little bit better than expected. Latetely, I have seen a new trend in BJJ advertising where women seems to have their pants. The below link is the great write up on the sexualisaton of women in the BJJ world. http://jiujiubjj.com/brazilian-jiu-jitsu/bjj-and-women-psa-trousers-thief-on-the-loose/ The below video is good but I do not think I would want my students going drinking alone and choking people in the bar like that to be honest. But I guess every videos has a message which is to train BJJ and they use a different angle to get a reaction from the person watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HFsyBG95rg Some other videos on youtube for women BJJ which are pretty cool and use different angles to promote the message.