Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ)

Training Cancelled Sat 2nd June

Hi guys.

Training will be cancelled at BJJ Herts this Saturday 2nd June due to the London Open competition being held at the Seni exhibition at the Excel.

I will ask and see how many people want to train on Bank Holiday Monday 4th June before deciding if we are going to run a class or not.

Cheers

Stuart.

Professor Arlans and stripe night

Last night Professor Arlans visited BJJ Herts to teach the class.

He taught some open gaurd techniques which the guys picked up very well.

At the end of the class there was around 45 mins sparring in which Professor Arlans rolled with most of the class.

Also at the end we had some stipes given to the following students.

Cyril

Simon

Martin

Joe

Arlans commented how impressed he was with the progress everyone is making.

Continue the good work guys and there will soon be more stripes on the way.

Keep rolling :-)

Mestre De La Riva

Hi guys. Just to let you all know that this TUESDAY 29th MAY Mestre De La Riva will be at the Edmonton academy to take the training. This session will be £10 per person to attend. Everyone from all the Arlans Siqueira academies is welcome to attend. If you can make it please do as the opportunity to train with Mestre De La Riva is not to be missed. Also please make sure you arrive on time so we can start at 8.

Cheers

spanspanStuart

Professor Arlans taking Monday class.

Hi guys.

Just to let you all know Professor Arlans will be teaching the class at BJJ Herts this Monday 28th May.

Please make it down if you can.

Cheers, see you all Monday night.

Stuart

British Open

You may or may not have heard but some of the Arlans Siqueira BJJ team went to Birmingham this past weekend to compete in the British Open.

Of the 6 that competed they returned with the following results.

Dave Oakes - SILVER

Tadeusz - SILVER

Johnathon Mallaburn - SILVER

Duncan Mallaburn - SILVER

Anthony Harvey - SILVER

Hafiz was very unfortunate in his fight and lost narrowly to the eventual GOLD medal winner.

Well done Dave for his 1st medal at purple belt in only his 2nd time competing at purple.

5 medals from 6 competitors is an excellent return. Well done to all the guys that competed.

Arlans was very pleased with the performance of the team.

Once again, well done everyone.

Sat 19th May Training Cancelled

Hi guys.

I know I have already mentioned this to quite a few of you but just to confirm there will be NO training this Saturday 19th May at BJJ Herts.

Class as normal this Thursday 17th May (Wrestling) 8-10.

Then next session will be Mon 21st May (BJJ) 8-10.

Cheers

Stuart

No Training BH Mon

Hi everyone.

Just to let you all know BJJ Herts will be closed this Mon 7th May 2012 due to the Bank Holiday.

Normal training Saturday 5th May 0900-1200.

Normal classes resume on Thursday 10th May from 8-10. Don’t forget this is the wrestling class.

Have a good weekend.

Cheers

Stuart

Class Times

Hi Everyone.

I have decided after some thought that the class times as of now will be 8-10 on Mondays and Thursdays and usual time of 9-12 on a Saturday.

This will be reviewed when Enzo returns.

If anyone has any queries regarding this please feel free to raise them.

Cheers

Stuart

Welsh Open Results

This past weekend 11 of the team went to Cardiff to compete in the Welsh Open.

Out of the 11 the team returned with 5 medals which were won by the following:

Jonathon Mallaburn : GOLD

Paul McCauley : SILVER

Hafiz-ul Islam : SILVER

Duncan Mallaburn : BRONZE

Kasun Herath : BRONZE

The rest of the team, Dave Oakes (1st time competing at purple belt), Nishan Khednah, Richard Miranda (1st time competing at blue belt), Daniel Ekechi (1st time competing), Dominique Mondesir (2nd comp after only 7 months training) and Stu Anderson all fought well but unfortunately did not medal on this occassion.

There were some fantastic fights from the guys so well done everyone, especially the medal winners.

Also big thanks to Proffesor Arlans for the coaching and James Mallaburn for his assistance with the guys throughout the day.

Roll on the next competition where hopefully we can take an even bigger number of competitors.

Wrestling class

Just to let you all know this Monday 16th April it will be a wrestling class at BJJ Herts (7.30-9.30).

BJJ class will be on Thursday 19th April (7.45-9.45).

This is just for this week as our wrestling coach Ian cannot make it on Thursday.

Also good luck to all the guys competing this weekend at the Welsh Open. I’m sure everyone will fight well and fight hard. Hopefully there will be some medals to show for everyones efforts.

Have a good weekend.