Exeter BJJ | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu | MMA

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We sent 9 athletes up to Spartan Grapple Challenge 9 at Nailsea on Saturday 2^nd February. They came back with 3 Gold, 4 Silver and 1 Bronze medal. This included Gold at absolute and two division finals where our students fought each other.

It was great to see the hours of training pay off, especially for those competing for the first time in a no gi competition.

The last formal Exeter BJJ class of the year will be on Thursday 20th December due to the Riverside closing early over Xmas. Our sister club Fightworx in Torquay has open mats on Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd December for those of you that want to minimize your time off. Our first session back in the New Year is Wednesday’s no-gi class on the 2nd January at 8:15pm.  Keep an eye on the Exeter BJJ facebook page to see the timings of any extra sessions over the holidays.

Just when we thought all the competitions were over for the year, the 10-11th December saw Exeter BJJ students’ successfully competing in interclub competitions hosted by Gracie Barra Cornwall and Gracie Barra Bristol. On Saturday a small group headed down to Newquay’s Koncept Gym where Martin picked up Gold in his division in the gi and Geoff won Bronze no-gi. On Sunday, Genki headed up to Bristol for the submission only competition where he managed to win Gold after an epic 40 minute fight that was one of the longest of the day and Tanya who after clearing out the woman’s division decided to enter the mens and lost after a 60 minute battle.

Also at the weekend, Exeter BJJ’s no-gi coach Chris ‘Cabelo’ Jones was awarded his brown belt by Raphael Dos Santos last weekend. This was a well deserved promotion and caps off a year of competition success for Cabelo.

Both of the clubs assistant coaches won medals at the UMA VI British Open ‘No Gi’ Grappling Championships last weekend. No-gi coach Cabelo solidified his credentials as one of the countries up an coming grapplers, winning Gold at UMA VI, the Welsh No-gi Open, British No Gi Open and a Bronze medal in the NAGA European Championship in recent months and hoping for more to come in 2013, also with Alaric Moore winning a hard fought Bronze medal in the -75 division. The following day medal action for the club with Claire winning Silver at the 15^th Hereford Open Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships.

http://umauk.co.uk/Results.htm

http://www.thecombatacademy.com/HO15Results.html

 The fruits of 8 weeks extra No Gi training were picked over the weekend with the majority of the club that competed medalling ( 3 medals including 2 Gold’s) at the prestigious 2012 No Gi British Open. Those that didn’t medal represented the club well with all winning their first fight.

http://nogibritishopen.com/index.php/results

Exeter BJJ prides itself on being a diverse, inclusive and friendly club with students from all over the world.  We also compete all over the world with Claire recently competing in the Abu Dhabi Pro Gi trials in Sweden and assistant coach Chris ‘Cabelo’ Jones winning a hard fought Bronze medal in Paris on the 10^th November

http://nagafighter.com/index.php?module=eventdetailpage/276#

Exeter BJJ’s junior students grabbed a bag of medals at the Dorset & Hants BJJ Open 2012. This included 3 gold medals which helped our wider team ‘GB Cornwall’ place 3^rd in the competition

http://www.dorsetandhantsbjj.co.uk/index_dh.html

ATTENTION Team Members, training partners & medal hunters. Operation No-Gi British Open commences Monday 24th Sept for the next 8 weeks until the 26th November. Monday nights class will be No-Gi, we will also add a regular Saturday class 15:30-1700 No-Gi. Tues, Weds and Thurs classes will remain the same. Bring a towel and plenty of water, everyone welcome!