Jiu Jitsu Women's Fighting Final -62kg World Combat Games - Winner Carina Neupert (GER)

Fight Like a Girl directed by Jill Morley - Movietrailer

Told from a first person perspective, "Fight Like A Girl" is about women overcoming their demons through boxing, while telling a larger story about abuse, trauma, mental illness and healing.

Gabi Garcia: “ADCC Invited Me To Compete In The Men’s Absolute Division.”

Originaltext:

Gabi Garcia once again dominated the women’s division in the ADCC. With a combination of strength and talent, she shines in all the championships. In the ADCC this year, which was held in China, the Alliance athlete confirmed her favorite status and won the tournament. Her recurring dominance over the other fighters made the ADCC give Gabi a unusual invitation, as she revealed in an interview with tatame.

“I wish there were new categories for women in ADCC, so that there would be more of a challenge. Incidentally, this year, I was invited to compete in the absolute male. It was a sheik, event organizer, who invited me. Obviously I did not accept. I do not want to get injured. I know that competing with men is something else. I have to focus on women, and I would not do such a crazy thing, ” She said.

Without giving much attention to the strange invitation, the black belt under Fabio Gurgel talked about her happiness for another gold at ADCC and emotion to live with the side of his master athlete.

“I ended the year with a very big achievement. It is a competition that gives me an adrenaline rush unlike other leagues, because it’s a style (no gi) that I do not do much. My victory was great, but what gave me more pleasure was to have lived with Fabio Gurgel as a fighter. I can tell future generations that I lived with the General as an athlete ” She concluded.

http://www.bjjee.com/bjj-news/gabi-garcia-adcc-invited-me-to-compete-in-the-mens-absolute-division/ 

Copa Podio MW GP Highlight - BJJ Hacks

Dana White, Gary Cook: UFC-Deutschland 2014 garantiert . MMA . GroundandPound

Dana White, Gary Cook: UFC-Deutschland 2014 garantiert . MMA . GroundandPound

ADCC Beijing 2013 - Michelle Nicolini Vs Seiko Yamamoto -60Kg

Grapplers Paradise No. 3 - Must Watch

Wir halten mit 3 Ausgaben schon länger durch als die meisten Schwergewichte in einem 15 Minuten Kampf. Für unser drittes Magazin haben wir das Thema Krafttraining im Grappling gewählt und euch alle nach euren Trainingsgewohnheiten befragt. Zu unserer Coverstory haben wir wieder eine Menge News, Berichte und Technik-Tutorials für euch.

Das Magazin könnt ihr wie gewohnt auf unserer Seite lesen oder als pdf für euer Tablet oder Handy herunterladen
http://grapplersparadise.de/grapplers-paradise-Magazin

REMINDER - UFC Fight Night 30 prelims will stream LIVE today at 12pm ET here:

http://msn.foxsports.com/ufc/story/machida-vs-munoz-prelims-stream-102513

JUDO - THE ORCHESTRA OF THROWS

Budo meets Friends 2013 - 02 Laser- und Introshow

Jiu Jitsu Blog and womens BJJ - Think before you post

Originaltext:
 
Jiu Jiu’s Note: While this post was written with men in mind, it applies to women, as well as admins of any gender behind online groups and forums.

Think before you post.

Specifically, think before you post about BJJ women.
This weekend a Facebook group posted a picture of Gabi Garcia vs Yuri Nakakura from this past weekend’s ADCC. The administrators left instructions to Caption This! ”Caption This” is an easy way to get user engagement, get some funny comments, and get lots of “likes” and shares.

Unfortunately, when it comes to women in BJJ, Caption This very often leads to inviting people to leave sexual and rude comments. This proved no exception. Several of the comments left were obvious pot shots at Gabi’s size (David vs Goliath), or references to Gabi being some sort of non-human monster. Many alluded to these women being referred to as men, often very crudely “Her penis is bigger than mine” or “Why is that little boy fighting that big man.” And a few got uncomfortably sexual: “just the tip.”

http://jiujiubjj.com/women/bjj-and-women-think-before-you-post/

IBJJF Masters & Seniors Worlds Lola Purple Light Weight Semi Final - 2nd

LIVE World Combat Games 2013 - Day 2 - 19.10.2013

The World Combat Games are an international multi-sport event featuring combat sports and martial arts. The second edition of the World Combat Games held in Saint Petersburg RUSSIA is streamed LIVE on our channel. We will start the streaming on Day 2, the day after the opening ceremony, the schedule is: Sumo (highlights from the 18th) 11:00 (GMT) Judo 12:00 (GMT) Sambo (highlights from the 18th) 14:30 (GMT) Sumo 16:00 (GMT) Daily Highlights 18:00 (GMT)

Neue Einteilung IBJJF nach Alter - es gibt keine Senioren mehr - jetzt Master

http://ibjjf.org/championship/european-open-jiu-jitsu-championship/

Female:
Year of Birth	Age division	Belt
1998	Juvenile 1	White, Blue, Purple
1997	Juvenile 2	White, Blue, Purple
1996 and before	Adult	White, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black
1984 and before	Master 1	Blue, Purple, Brown, Black

BJJ & MMA Workouts: Cycle 2 (Cardio) - Week 2, Day 3 | Breaking Muscle

BJJ & MMA Workouts: Cycle 2 (Cardio) - Week 2, Day 3 | Breaking Muscle

The Power of Jiu-Jitsu - Why it´s important to have womens-only-class

Blonde Ninjas - Just a performance

The First Lady of BJJ? - blog by meerkatsu

Originaltext:
http://meerkat69.blogspot.de/2010/05/first-woman-bjj-black-belt.html


I began researching this post ages ago with one simple question: who was the first woman to achieve the rank of black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?

No one I asked seemed to know the precise answer. Wouldn't you think the first female black belt would be a landmark moment, a stupendous achievement against great odds?
Something that would be recorded in the annuls of BJJ history?

Obviously not. My quest was to take me across the globe (figuratively speaking) to quiz some of the leading authorities and female icons in BJJ today. Along the way, I learned a lot of new things...



The first female black belt question came to me when I was researching my Ana Maria India article. Google did not offer much help and Ana herself did not know. I asked my previous interviewee, Penny Thomas. She didn't know, so she asked her mate and fellow world champion Leiticia Ribieiro, who seemed to recall that there were a few black belts at the time she was learning, so we're talking at least late 1990's, but again, no firm names or dates. I also asked top grapplers Hillary Williams and Felicia Oh, who are both active teaching women-only seminars, and they both mention Alessandra 'Leka' Vieira to me.

The Lion Killer
Leka Vieira is a pioneer because she was the first black belt womens world champion.

The very excellent Global Training Report website does state that she is the first female BB:

"Aloisio Silva taught on special occasions. He devoted a lot of his time to his star pupil, or one of them. She was Alessandra Leka Vieira. Leka was not Aloisio's most outstanding student, but she was his most personal. Leka started learning jiu-jitsu from Aloisio when she was a pudgy high school girl. Now she is the first female black belt in Brazil, champion of many tournaments, and has an 8 percent body fat ratio that most men would envy. Leka is small (55 kilos) but buffed. She is soft-spoken, shy (seldom smiles), almost prim, wears glasses and looks like a librarian-one with a crew cut and bulging biceps. This is her way of saying she is serious about jiu-jitsu. Watching her roll leaves no doubts about that. Once a couple of big tough female fighters came to Dojo to see what Leka had. They became good friends after she trounced them."

A full and gushing interview can be read here.
End of story right? Well, maybe. When I posed this question out there, some say she is, and some say there were other black belts before her. Leka, is hard to track down, I cannot find her academy anywhere and definitely not her email or Facebook address for me to contact. I think I saw something online about her turning up at Royler's academy for a one-off session. But it seems the demands of motherhood have taken over her once illustrious BJJ career.

The Gracie Way
Moving on, I thought if anyone would know, Mestre Rorion Gracie, first son of the late Grandmaster Helio Gracie, would know. Being the eldest, and keen historian, Rorion would have witnessed first hand how the combat art that his father and uncles helped to develop from small beginnings into the world wide sport we know today. Surely he would have seen women or girls training in classes way back in the early 1970's at least?

The Gracie University website, which offers belt by belt online tuition in Gracie style jiu-jitsu, also has a forum where Rorion or his sons will personally answer your questions. This is pretty cool. As long as you keep it brief, you get to chat, well at least ask a question, to the great man himself. The forum even has a History section where Rorion will answer questions about Gracie history. Alas, my query to him was answered with a simple: "I don't know."

Hmm, what about another well known BJJ historian? Who better than the author of practically every BJJ book on the planet, Kid Peligro. His book, The Gracie Way, is a potted history of the Gracie family and the rise of BJJ. But there is nothing in the book about women (apart from a brief para by Helio's youngest daughter Ricci.) But quite handily, Kid has a blog where you can post comments which seem to get answered pretty quickly. But Kid replied to me saying it was a tough question and he would have to make some enquiries. Read, probably code for, stop asking me stoopid questions.


Keyboard warriors
Undeterred, I decided to open it out to a wider audience. On each internet forum, there is usually one guru who seems to have the statistics on everything jitsu related on the planet. In the UK, we have the poster known as JSho, in the States (actually he is from Brazil), there is Donkey Kong. Ask any of these guys a question and you will get an informed answer. So I did. JSho admitted, it was a question even his BJJ geekery could not find the answer to. And Donkey...well I guess Mario got him cos he never replied.

Another forum regular, Banana, thinks the first women black belt was a Japanese girl, but did not know the name. The blogger Slidey thinks Banana might be referring to Cindy Omatsu who was the first non-Brazilian (Cindy is Japanese-American) to be promoted to black belt. A pioneer certainly, but not THE first.

Conclusion so far
I can't imagine the early days of training BJJ were easy for women. Perhaps, when the first academies opened up in the late 1930's and 1940's, social convention dictated that there was no such thing as women who trained combat sports. Maybe women only took up the sport post-war, maybe even as late as the 1970's or 1980's.

If the world of early judo was any comparison, women did train and were encouraged to do so by Jigoro Kano and his intructors.

I would like to think that out there, sitting on her rocking chair in the lazy Brazilian afternoon sun, smiling at her dozens of grandchildren, is an old lady with stories to tell. Stories about great warriors who would defend the family tradition using a martial art that was effective against vagabonds and ruffians who were much larger. A martial art where the smaller, weaker individual could defeat the larger, stronger but less skilled.
 
Lady, if you are out there, I salute you. Oh, and please tell me your name :)

Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful - Trailer

SportAccord World Combat Games 2013 - 2 days left

Nicola Adams is ready for the World Combat Games. Are you?

BJJB schließt Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Judo Bund

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Termine - Infoblatt

http://www.bjjb.de/

Tricking battles and extreme Taekwondo - Red Bull Kick It 2013

32. Tokio-Hirano-Gedenk–Lehrgang - 23/24.11 Urberach (Hessen)

http://www.judo-blog.de/wordpress/judo/32-tokio-hirano-gedenk-lehrgang/

Referenten

Frank Thiele 9. Dan Judo
Tom Herold 8. Dan Judo

Trainingszeiten:
Samstag, 23. November 9:00 – 19.30
Sonntag, 24. November 9:00 – 13:00

Lehrgangsthemen

Grundlagen der Bewegungen im Stand

• Grundlagen der Ashi-Waza
• Drills

Ne-Waza

• Chess-Drill, “Monkey-Drill”
• Wiederholung der Basis-Elemente des Prasara Yoga und der “Animal Moves”
• Escapes
• Framing
• Guardpass

Würgen

• Cross Choke
• Bow-and-Arrow Choke
• Side Choke
• North-South-Choke
• Guillotine Choke

Lombard, Marquardt, Boetsch u.v.m. in Houston . Allgemein . GroundandPound

Lombard, Marquardt, Boetsch u.v.m. in Houston . Allgemein . GroundandPound

UFC 166: Velasquez vs. dos Santos III
Samstag, 19. Oktober 2013
Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, USA

Schwergewichtstitelkampf (ufc.tv)
Cain Velasquez (c) vs. Junior dos Santos

Hauptprogramm (ufc.tv)
Daniel Cormier vs. Roy Nelson
Gilbert Melendez vs. Diego Sanchez
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Shawn Jordan
John Dodson vs. Darrell Montague

Vorprogramm (ufc.tv)
Tim Boetsch vs. C.B. Dollaway
Nate Marquardt vs. Hector Lombard
Sarah Kaufman vs. Jessica Eye
George Sotiropoulos vs. KJ Noons

Vorprogramm (Facebook)
TJ Waldburger vs. Adlan Amagov
Tony Ferguson vs. Mike Rio
Jeremy Larsen vs. Andre Fili
Dustin Pague vs. Kyoji Horiguchi

Roundhouse: Tanja Hoffmann vs Audrey "Sorel" Kerouche - MMA Kampf Frauen

UFC 2014 in Berlin, Lodz, Dublin, Glasgow, London und Istanbul - Groundandpound

Die Ultimate Fighting Championship wird im kommenden Jahr sechs Veranstaltungen in Europa abhalten. Im Rahmen einer Gesprächsrunde beim Leaders Sports Summit verkündete UFC-Europa-Chef Garry Cook die geplanten Austragungsorte der Europa-Tour: Berlin, Lodz, Dublin, Glasgow, London und Istanbul. Dass es die UFC 2014 nach Berlin verschlagen könnte, kam bereits vor einigen Wochen ans Licht (GnP berichtete). Auch heute scheinen diese Pläne noch aktuell zu sein.

Ein offizielles Datum gibt es noch nicht. Wie Groundandpound.de jedoch aus vertraulichen Quellen erfahren konnte, ist eine Veranstaltung in Deutschlands Bundeshauptstadt für das zweite Quartal 2014 angedacht. Der Startschuss für die Europa-Tour fällt im März, genauer gesagt am ersten Wochenende des Monats. Dabei wird die UFC zum siebenten Mal in London gastieren, aller Voraussicht nach mit einer UFC Fight Night. In welcher Arena die UFC diesmal veranstalten wird, ist nicht bekannt.

Ein weiteres interessantes Ziel der UFC ist Lodz. Die Stadt liegt genau im Zentrum Polens und hat mit der Atlas Arena eine große und moderne Arena zu bieten. Die polnische Vorzeigeorganisation KSW konnte hier im vergangen Monat über 12.000 Tickets für KSW 24 verkaufen. Des Weiteren nannte Cook Dublin, Istanbul und – mit dem Zusatz „vielleicht“ - Glasgow als geplante Austragungsorte für UFC-Veranstaltungen im kommenden Jahr. Die Termine der Events werden in den kommenden Wochen verkündet.

Roundhouse: Tanja Hoffmann feiert schnellen Submission-Sieg über Audrey Kerouche - Groundandpound Interview

Die Deutsche Tanja Hoffmann konnte eine beim Debüt-Event von Roundhouse Berlin einen blitzschnellen Submission-Sieg gegen Audrey Kerouche einfahren. Groundandpound-TV hat anschließend mit ihr gesprochen.

The Girl Declaration

Girls have the power to stop poverty before it starts. The Girl Declaration was created to make sure their needs are prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. http://www.girleffect.org/2015. We want to thank the organizations and experts who have helped us put girls front and centre to fuel the girl effect and join us in the fight against poverty. The Girl Declaration Film would not be possible without the assistance of Wondros, TEDxFactory798 China, TEDxSoweto, The Ponheary Ly Foundation, ACEE - The Third Eye.

Demand for Pro Female MMA Fighters will Increase in 2014 by Wombat Sports

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If you are a female and ever wanted to be a fighter, now would be a great time to start.
Multiple promotions will be expanding into the female divisions and signing more talent in 2014. With the announcement of the World Series of Fighting adding multiple women’s divisions a few weeks ago (so much in fact that they dedicated a portion of their site to them), and organizations like XFC, UFC, and LegacyFC signing female talent to long term deals, there won’t be a lack of opportunities. The impact can also be seen worldwide as Cage Warriors is signing European WMMA talent, and multiple Australian and Asian promotions are adding female bouts on their cards on a regular basis.

Caught up in the mix is InvictaFC, who seems to be a victim of their own success. Although they have been out of the loop for a bit, they are looking to expand to 8-10 shows next year.
Although being signed to a promotion as a pro is something a lot of fighters strive for, it could be a mixed blessing. Being active has been a problem, with promotions only carrying a certain amount of slots per card for so many fighters. Many promotions sign fighters to exclusive deals, so fighters could be fighting only once or twice a year. This was a big problem with Bellator’s contracts. Both XFC and Invicta expressed they will be doing near monthly cards to make sure more women have more opportunities to fight. WSOF may also be expanding their cards in 2014.

A solid benefit is exposure to a wide audience. XFC (AXS TV), and WSOF (NBC Sports Net) have tv deals; and Invicta, with its huge internet stream presence, has a possible tv deal in the works. The exposure means more sponsors and a bigger fan base.

With the current opportunities, we can expect a lot of amateur talent to turn pro in 2014. Demand for ammy fighters will increase as well, so those wanting to jump into MMA will have plenty of opportunities to fight next year as well.
If you always dreamed about being the next female MMA star and haven’t started training MMA, now is a great time to start.

Diese Frauen grappeln besser als du – Die slicke Armbartriangle [Submission Sunday] by Grapplersparadise

Es ist Sonntag, die Woche neigt sich dem Ende. Ihr wisst was das heißt. Entspannen, zurücklehnen und wir versorgen Euch mit einer sweeten Submission. Heute mal was ganz besonderes und mit Premiere, denn anscheindend hatten wir bisher noch keinen Submission Sunday an dem 2 Frauen beteiligt waren. Asche über unser Haupt, aber bei solch einem Kampf zwischen Marina Soares und Michele Nicolini hätten wir mit diesem Missgeschick schon vor langer Zeit brechen müssen, denn auch Frauen habens drauf. In diesem Sinne, genießt das kurze Zwischenspiel, gerade mal 2:55 Minuten lang, bei den brasilianischen ADCC Trials aus dem Jahr 2011. Marina Soares x Michele Nicollini

Jiu-Jitsu for the Zombie Apocalypse - Take the titel not so seriously ;)

Roundhouse: Siege für Andrade, Hoffmann und Pastor . Veranstaltungsberichte . GroundandPound

Roundhouse: Siege für Andrade, Hoffmann und Pastor . Veranstaltungsberichte . GroundandPound

Budo meets Friends 2013 - Trailer

Budo meets Friends - Die große Showgala des Sports 2013 im KUKO Rosenheim. Ein ganz besonderes Showhighlight. Kampfkunst Akrobatik Turnen Tanz Ballett Jazz Hip Hop Parkour Freestyle

MUNDIAL CBJJE 2013 - Mayssa Bastos x Juliana Andrade by x-combat

BJJ Ladies Camp 1.11-03.11.13 Alicante by Liló Asensi

https://www.facebook.com/events/438378006270896/
 
Originaltext:
Hey girls, i'am Maria Dolores " LILO " Asensi, black belt of Agustiin Climent.

I'm organizaed a BJJ girls camp the next 1,2,3 of november in Alicante in my academia CLIMENTCLUB.

10 years I've been practicing BJJ, I've been competing since 2005.
This year I had the opportunity to attend the World Championship Abudhabi.

It would be very good for all of us together, where we can learn new techniques and resolve questions about the gentle art.

My concern is that we know all among us to improve and gain experience and wisdom

Accommodation will be at the dojo where we have microwave and fridge with some food for gaining strength after training.

The price of the camp is 55 euros.

I await your confirmation by sending an email to lilomado@hotmail.com with:

Your full name
Age
Academy and team
Belt
Will you need to sleep at our dojo?

Once we have received your email, you will get an email with directions on how to pay via pay-pal. Once we have received your payment, your registration is complete. You are not registered to the camp before we have received the payment. Payment is non-refundable.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.

 

1. Internationales Frauen Kampfsport-Camp in Deutschland / Kassel 10.-12.01.14 (Judo, BJJ, Grappling, Boxen, Muay Thai, Ringen, Jiu Jitsu, Wendo, MMA...) - jetzt auch ohne Übernachtung buchbar

Schon 20 Plätze sind belegt und noch ein knapper Monat bis zum Anmeldeschluss.

Ganz neu - auch ohne Übernachtung buchbar: 50€ fürs Camp sowie 5€ Tagesgebühr für den Sensenstein, also 65€ für das Camp ohne Übernachtung.

65€ inkl. Mittagessen Samstag und Sonntag.

https://www.facebook.com/events/156848757847678/

Bitte denkt daran: Nur Anmeldungen mit Anmeldeformular und überwiesener Teilnahmegebühr - gelten als gebucht.

See you on the mat!

Video profile of Rosi 'The Surgeon' as she prepares for the October UFC Mixed Martial Arts fight in Manchester, UK - First women UFC in Europe