Melbourne Cup Day & Other Stuff

Please be aware that there will be no classes this Tuesday 3rd November owing to the Public Holiday. Also on Thursday 26th November we will be taking a bus trip to train at the Ringwood academy. We will leave at 5.30pm from Mornington and return by 9.00pm. Please let me know if your interested in coming so I know what numbers to expect. There will be no classes at the Mornington club that evening due to a VCAL event. Finally on Saturday 12th December we will be holding a combined MMA training session with members of the Ringwood academy. This will take the place of normal training. There will be a round robin competitive format consisting of 2 3min rounds and will follow C class Shooto rules. Everyone will be matched as closely as possible by weight and experience. I encourage everyone to participate as it as great chance to put together all your stand up, wrestling and ground skills. The emphasis will be on training and learning not winning.

Robson Moura No Gi Half Guard

No Gi Worlds Preview

Gui Mendes No-Gi Technique

Glovers Travels Episode 4 Pt 2 Cobra Kai

Erik Paulson Takedowns and Throws

Robson Moura No Gi

Dave Camarillo Blog

Here is the link to the latest blog post from Dave Camarillo and his observations of the "Bullpen" or warm up area before a competition. Anyone who has competed over a few years knows these feelings very well.

Old School Rickson Footage

Here Rickson rolls with student Pedro Sauer. Cool back take from North South at 50sec mark.

Pan Pacs 2009

Well done to the athletes from Mornington who competed this weekend. A comparatively small group this year of five (3 whites/2 blues) competitors represented us well again. Johan did the best with a gold and silver medal in his first competition. Great work. This reflects the culmination of months of hard work by Johan, who has put in lots of quality mat time and extra training (early mornings) which paid off handsomely. Slym took silver in a tough blue belt no-gi division losing in a close match to a more experienced fellow team mate from Chadstone. Slym is also putting in the hard yards on the mat and starting to develop a very solid comp game, this result is well deserved also. Trent said goodbye in style with a good run in his no gi but ultimately failing to place in another large novice division. I look forward to getting some of the injured guys back on the mat soon and getting a strong team together for next years circuit. Combining some of the newer guys, who are getting valuable experience, with some of our more experienced guys has the potential to create a strong team indeed. The trick will be turning potential energy into kinetic energy if you get my drift. Full results are on the AFBJJ website now and some photos and more reports are on the Extreme homepage. I'm sure some footage will be uploaded to youtube over the following days.

Glovers Travels Episode 4 Pt 1 Cobra Kai

Lyoto Machida HL

No Classes this Saturday

Please note there will be no classes this Saturday due to the 2009 Pan Pacific BJJ Championship to be held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Please come along and support your fellow teammates. This is a big tournament and a good chance to watch high level competition first hand.

Ryan Hall HL

Don "The Predator" Frye HL

The best mustache in MMA. Some old school footage here.

UfC 104 & No Gi Timetable

Slym has kindly offered to air UFC 104 at his place on Sunday 25th October from 1pm. Please let me know if your interested in attending and I will give you the necessary details. Also after the Pan Pacs this weekend, we will revert to our Summer timetable changing to predominantly no gi training. The only class that will remain a gi class is 12-1pm on Saturday. Peace, out.

Renzo Gracie

With all the garbage on the net these days it is a true pleasure to watch these clips of Renzo teaching. Lots of great stuff here on managing those all important transitions to allow us to finish a move.

How to Triangle a Big Guy.

Breaking down armbar defence

Nate Diaz HL

Wrestling Single Leg Takedown

GSP HL Clip

UFC 104 Preview

Glovers Travels Episode 3 Pt 2

Dream 11 Preview

Leo Viera & Fabio Gurgel Rollin circa 1997

Gunnar Nelson

Gunnar Nelson was awarded his black belt by Renzo Gracie after a successful showing at ADCC. Here is the final of the Pan Ams at brown belt.

Mendes v Cobrinha u66kg ADCC Final

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