Although this is not a BJJ/Grappling event, there will be a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu demonstration put on by Kylin Jiu-Jitsu‘s own Thomas Fan at the Hong Kong International Kung Fu Festival. For thos interested in tickets, please contact Thomas at kylinbjj@gmail.com.

DATE: July 25, 2009
LOCATION: HK International Trade & Exhibition Centre

Kian Pham will be traveling from Australia to put on an MMA seminar at Fightworks Asia this coming July 4th. Check out: WWW.KARNAGE.TV

Fabio Leopoldo, a Renzo Gracie Fighter, a 3-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, and an IFL professional MMA fighter, will be coming to Evolve to train Muay Thai under the Sityodtong team. Fabio holds a 2nd Degree Black Belt under Carlos Gracie Jr.

Where: Evolve Mixed Martial Arts
Date: Saturday July 18
Time: 1230pm to 330pm
Fee: $40 for Evolve members and $80 for non-Evolve members.(SGD)

A big shout-out to Taki-san from Kowloon Jiu-Jitsu who recently took gold in the brown-belt medio category at the Rickson Cup this past weekend at the Hamamatsu Arena in Shizuoka, JP. Also be sure to check out SAMULIME.BLOGSPOT from this past weekend by Kei.

Sad news. I got injured in training and got my knee bent sideways. Felt and heard it pop and snap. The short story is that after being bounced between different walk-in clinics and doctors and being referred to ERs, I found out that while I didn’t tear the ligamanets (thankfully), I did damaged the cartilage. I haven’t been able to train and I’m only now getting to where I can walk OK. Unfortunately this means my big trip to Europe is cancelled and I won’t teaching at the Estonian BJJ…

The most recent Grapplers Quest tournament brought out the usual crowd of tough competitors and resulted in some hard-fought matches. Results below…

Saturday: No-Gi
Anthony Cincotta looked sharp in the Advanced Lightweight division, submitting 3 opponents in rapid fashion to make the final and close out the bracket with Ryan Hall who beat his first opponent [...]

Today we worked a couple of submissions from knee in the belly. The first was an armbar:

Nerfydunk tagged me on her blog a few days ago, so, since I’m It, I guess I have to answer a few nosy questions. 
 
What is your current obsession? Swimming and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
 
What is your weirdest obsession?  I think BJJ counts as weirder than swimming. Swimming has it’s moments of weird, don’t get me wrong [...]

Quick Post.
In my Psychology of Success Blog I shared one of my Jiujitsu tales. Here’s the link: http://psychologyofsuccess.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/success-as-an-unconscious-process-level-2-and-revisiting-blink/
Thanks,
Bakari

Like most people addicted to bjj, I have a ton of material to learn from.  Stacks of dvds, a shelf of books and this is not to mention the mountain of YouTube videos out there.  After a while it becomes obvious to most players that you just c…

I had a great roll with Scott yesterday– great for me because I was just playing around, wasn’t really trying to win, trying to get in good positions and observe what he did… improved my halfguard passing, saw two armbars, survived some choke attempts, and he was extravagantly complimentary, which was nice to hear even though I believed about half of it.

Last night had some jits friends show up for salsa, and of course, they picked up so quickly! There are neural pathways they’ve polished so the new movements seem to get into the brain more easily.

My weight is going in the right direction again, which is to say DOWN, hooray! I need to be a little more resistant to the late night snack (last night after salsa, my hungry husband fried some eggs, made rice, and cooked up little sausages, so I was compelled to eat at least 8 of the sausages. Woe.)

The garden is doing nicely– lots of happy roses, agapanthus, hummingbird bush, butterfly bush, and even some ripening tomatoes. But my gardenia lost about 5 buds to some kind of strange black speckles-turned-to-rot. So I sprayed with some organic insecticide/fungicide/miticide and we’ll see what happens. I needed to spray the roses for rust and the zinnias for powdery mildew anyway.

Today is a very exciting day– I hope my best friend has her baby today (she’s not in labor yet to my knowledge) and I am going to an event tonight that I will discuss tomorrow… but it’s a happy event Anyway, off to jits soon. Phew.