March 20th, 2012
Claudio Silva Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Seminar
Date: 08/04/2012
Location: Carlson Gracie Chelmsford (Fitness First, CM1 1TA)
Time: 14:00-16:00
Price: £20
A great opportunity to learn from a BJJ, Submission Grappling and MMA Champion. Claudio will be showing some of his favourite techniques, so don’t miss out.
Read about some of Claudio’s achievements below:
www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-fighters/claudio-henrique-facts-and-bio
www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/1/13/2702872/claudio-henrique-da-silva-mma-world-mma-middleweight-scouting-report
Email chelmsford@carlsongracieessex.co.uk to book.
www.carlsongracieessex.co.uk/Chelmsford.html
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March 1st, 2012
In addition to the current classes, Carlson Gracie Essex are excitied to launch new classes in Chelmsford commencing 5th March.
The classes will be located in Chelmsford Fitness First:
Fitness First
Globe House
New Street,
Chelmsford
CM1 1TA
Fitness First membership is NOT required to attend these classes.
Class times:
Monday 20:30 - 22:00
Wednesday 20:30 - 22:00
Friday 18:45 - 20:00
Additional classes will be added in coming months.
Price:
Adults
£8 pay as you go.
Monthly 1 x class £26, 2 x class £45, unlimited classes £65.
Students and Juniors
£6 pay as you go.
Monthly 1 x class £21, 2 x class £40, unlimited £55
Parking avaliable on site. Please supply reception with your car registration.
For more details email: chelmsford@carlsongracieessex.co.uk
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September 29th, 2011
Carlson Gracie Essex and SDMMA’s Paul Harper will be making this first U.C.F Featherweight title defense this October 8th at Charter Hall, Colchester.
Harper’s opponent is Chris Bullion - fighting out Razor’s MMA in London. Bullion is the current Sunday Brawl MMA title holder.
Paul will be looking for his third straight finish, and this is sure to be another exciting fight.
Tickets are £30. Please purchase in advance from Paul.
Doors open at 17:00. There is a fully licensed bar.
TEAM HARPER OOOOSSS!!
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September 5th, 2011
Saturday night saw Carlson Gracie Essex fighter Kerry Masarati win via unanimous decision in her highly entertaining two-round amateur bout at the KAYO-MMA event in Watford.
In front of a huge crowd Kerry showed her striking dominance in the cage, as well as scoring takedowns and managing to fend off any submission attempts by her opponent on the ground.
Kerry has worked hard with the team these past few months to improve her grappling in preparation for this fight, and has expressed thanks to everyone who helped contribute to this win.
We look forward to seeing more wins in the future. Oooossss Carlson Gracie!
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August 10th, 2011
Alain will now be teaching BJJ classes on Saturday mornings at Ipswich Kickboxing Academy (home of Blue Wave Martial Arts in Ipswich) from 20th August 2011.
Price:
£6
Class times:
Juniors: 10:30-11:30
Adults: 11:30-12:45
Address:
Unit 2 Tudor Works,22 Turret Lane
Ipswich , IP4 1DL.
http://www.ipswichkickboxingacademy.co.uk/
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August 5th, 2011
A selection of upcoming BJJ and no-gi tournaments:
September 11 2011
Groundcontrol Grappling (Manchester)
http://www.gcgrappling.com/
October 01-02 2011
London International Open IBJJF Championship (Crystal Palace, London)
http://www.ibjjf.org/london2011home.htm
October 23 2011
GoToTheGround - Round 04 (Ipswich)
http://gototheground.com/
October 23 2011
No Gi British Open (Birmingham)
http://nogibritishopen.com/
November 05 2011
NAGA 2nd Grappling / BJJ Tournament (Paris, France)
www.nagafighter.com
November 12-13
Swedish Open (Stenungsund, Sweden)
www.swopbjj.se
November 26-27 2011
The English Open BJJ Championships (Dartford)
http://www.englishbjjopen.co.uk/
There will be HUGE medals!
There will be a repechage
There will be Acai
There will be an accurate timetable
There will be comfortable seats for spectators
There will be prizes for some divisions
There will be superfights
More updates to follow soon!
Please speak to Alain or send a message if you are interested in competiting in any of the upcoming events.
Please be aware that Brazilian Jiujitsu is a full contact grappling art. In the interests of safety the instructor will make the final decision on the students eligibility to compete.
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July 11th, 2011
On Sunday several members of Carlson Gracie Essex travelled up to Felixstowe to attend the farewell seminar hosted by Demetrius Ramos. Demetrius is returning to the USA and to his academy in Arizona - Tucson Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Also in attendance to instruct were Eduardo Gonçalves and Checkmat Blackbelt Claudio Silva - who had less than 24hrs before won the WFC Middleweight Title Belt. Demetrius will be handing his classes in Norwich over to Claudio and Edu will be taking over the BJJ instruction at Dynamo. The seminar gave the students an opportunity to meet their new instructors and sample the high level of BJJ instruction they will continue to receive. Our own Alain Pozo was on hand to aid the demonstrations and support the students.
For the most part the seminar focussed on half guard techniques, with Demetrius and Edu both showing positions and techniques from the bottom, demonstrating how to react to the opponent and transition to sweep or take the back. Edu explained that these were unapologetically Black Belt level techniques, but that he was keen to expose the students to this level of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
Claudio followed Edu and Dema’s techniques with a half -guard pass which had been highly popular at this year’s Mundials, as well as showing the setup for the kneebar he used to win the finals of the recent Submission 1000 event, with several calf-crush, leg and ankle lock variations to use from the same position. Claudio’s instruction came with a huge amount of detail with application beyond the moves being shown.
Demetrius ended the seminar with several belt promotions and an emotive speech about his time in the UK, thanking his students and friends and outlining the bright future he sees for BJJ in the area with Alain, Edu and Claudio leading the way. Edu, Claudio and Alain also gave a few words to thank Dema, talk of the mutual respect that exists between them and outline some of their expectations.
Carlson Gracie Essex would like to wish Demetrius well for the future. He is a fantastic instructor with true BJJ spirit – an example to us all. We hope some of our students will take the opportunity to visit and train with Demetrius at his academy in Arizona in the future.
All of the students at these clubs will always be very welcome to visit and train with us in Essex.
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July 6th, 2011
On Monday and Tuesday we had some new belt promotions at Carlson Gracie Essex.
Nikolas Maschas - Blue Belt
Daniel Rainbird - Blue Belt
Dom Harris - Orange Belt (Junior grade)
All three are committed BJJ practitioners and team members who have worked hard to achieve this level. We are proud to have them represent Carlson Gracie Essex on and off the mats. Congratulations.
Gradings were followed by the customary belt whippings.
Carlson Gracie Oooooossssssss
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July 5th, 2011
Results:
-84kg Novice Gold - Daniel Rainbird
+60kg Juvenile Gold - Dom Harris
-60kg Juvenile Gold - Kieren Hopgood
Female Mixed Silver - Kerry Masarati
-84kg Novice Silver - Dom Harris
-70kg Intermediate Bronze - Shane Ruffell
-92kg Novice Bronze - Nikolas Maschas
-77kg Novice Bronze - Tom Baillie
-65kg Novice Bronze - Kieren Hopgood
A huge congratulations to all the guys who competed at the weekend. Despite their young ages Kieren, Dom and Harry Ryan made the difficult step-up into the adult divisions for the first time in an open competition and conducted themselves fantastically, all winning fights. They have a bright future in the sport. Frank Sandersan demonstrated a dangerous submission game in the intermediate division before having to withdraw due to injury. Ryan Carter won two fights via a smooth triangle to armbar combination. After 3 hard fights James Costa ceded the bronze to his teammate via the most amusing fight of the day (http://tinyurl.com/3tohap5) Kerry proved her potential and will to fight in her first grappling competition against a more experienced opponent- this is only the beginning. Daniel, Shane, Tom and Nik the Greek put on great displays of BJJ to win their medals. All competitors displayed true Carlson Gracie spirit and made their coach very proud.
Carlson Gracie Essex also brought along a junior grappling team from Colchester, eager to put their skills to the test in tournament. They put on some great matches and clearly enjoyed themselves. Special mention to Anthony Ozer – who, at only five years old, may be one of the youngest no-gi competitors in the UK.
A massive THANK YOU to the organisers for putting on another great competition, and all the supporters from Carlson Gracie Essex who came along to help and cheer along your team mates.
Injured Paul Harper making himself useful working the table.
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June 20th, 2011
The third Go to the Ground no-gi submission grappling competition will take place on 3rd July 2011.
This is a well organised event which we highly recomend attending. Carlson Gracie Essex has always had a good showing at these competitions. We hope to take another large team and bring back plenty of medals.
Adults, please get your entries in on the website. Registration closes midnight Thursday 30th June 2011.
http://gototheground.com/about/
Any juniors and juveniles wanting to compete, please register your interest will Alain as soon as possible.
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