Check out the promo video of the 2010 AZ BJJ State Championship produced by Many Weapons.
Announcements
AZ State Promo Video
June 11th, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
2010 AZ State Competitor’s T-Shirt
June 9th, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
T-SHIRTS DESIGNED BY MANY WEAPONS
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When you look good, you feel good and when you feel good, you perform good. Many Weapons is helping the 2010 AZ BJJ STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Competitors do all three. A great event deserves a great T-Shirt and once again Many Weapons delivers. Please check out our site often as we release tons of new stuff for the summer @ manyweapons.com
GD Jiu-Jitsu Events will be offering FREE tournament T-Shirts to ALL competitors who Pre-Register for the tournament by the PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE on June 18th @ 11:59 PM. Competitors registered AFTER this time will NOT receive a T-Shirt.
Nova Uniao Set for the Worlds
June 1st, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
From: www.graciemag.com
Nova União’s training camp for the 2010 Worlds has ended. The activities took place in Dallas, Texas. The two-week training period counted black belts of the caliber of Robson Moura, Rodrigo Feijão, Marcelino Freitas and Bruno Bastos. Marcelino left early to finish up his training at NU Arizona with Gustavo Dantas, in the company of promising competitor Steven Rosenberg, who is raring to butt heads with the favorites in the lightweight division, as well as another promising fighter, Chris Westfall. The team has been going strong in other weight groups, like the roosterweight division, with the always-competitive Bernardo Pitel and the return of 1998’s world champion Marcelo Pereira. At featherweight the aforementioned Marcelino wants to rain on the parades of favorites Rubens Charles Cobrinha and Rafael Mendes. At middleweight, the team is banking on rookie Daniel Garcia and Diogo Almeida and Roberto Nery carry the team’s hopes at medium heavyweight. Now in the super heavyweight division the seasoned Bruno Bastos and rising star Ricardo Demente round out the team’s black belt roster. The duo promise to give Roger Gracie and Xande Ribeiro a run for their money and want nothing more than to shatter the dreams of winning a third absolute title. Rodrigo Feijão, who headed the training sessions in Dallas, comments on their expectations: “We expect the very best and we’re going in pursuit of medals in all belt groups. There’s no way for us to win the championship yet, but I believe next year we’ll have the means to go for it. A few revelations are cropping up and more athletes will come up from Brazil next year, too.”
5th AZ Open Featured in Gracie Mag #158
May 5th, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
Gracie Mag #158
The 5th Arizona International Open was featured in this month’s Gracie Magazine. The issue # 158 features a four page article about the tournament. Check out the gracie mag website to find out how to get your issue.
GD Interview Following the 5th AZ International Open of BJJ
April 26th, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
Gustavo breaks down the 5th AZ International Open of BJJ and talks about BJJ in AZ.
New GD Jiu-Jitsu Affiliate in Chandler, AZ
April 21st, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
Gary and GD at the 2008 Pan Jiu-Jitsu
GD Jiu-Jitsu is glad to announce that Gustavo’s Black Belt, Gary Matsch, has been teaching classes at the Phoenix Quest Center, located at 3016 N. Dobson Rd. #14, in Chandler, AZ (Dobson/Elliot). Gary has been with GD for 10 years, and he has been teaching the early class (6:30 am) at GD Jiu-Jitsu for the past few years. Please visit the Phoenix Quest Center’s Website for more info.
Belt Promotion at GD Jiu-Jitsu
April 16th, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
GD and Bob Merriman
Last night, Wednesday April 14th, was a big night for Team GD Jiu-Jitsu. Gustavo promoted his 6th Black Belt, Bob Merriman, along with 4 new Purple Belts and 5 new Blue Belts. Bob has been a student of Gustavo’s for the past 9 years and is also the BJJ instructor at East West MMA. Also, Paul Nava (Gustavo’s Brown Belt and Head BJJ Instructor at Kajukenbo AZ/Nava BJJ) had his very 1st Belt Promotion, promoting 2 of his students to Blue Belt, one of which being Kelly Corder (Head instructor of Kajukenbo AZ). Keep up the good work! Here is the full list of promotions:
5th AZ International Open on Phoenix Cable TV
April 3rd, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
30 minutes show on Channel 7
The 5th AZ International Open of BJJ will be on TV for the first time in Arizona! On Saturday, April 24th, from 4:00 to 4:30 pm, the tournament will be featured on Cox Cable Channel 7, which can reach 929,186 Households in Phoenix and Tucson. The TV Show is being produced by our head sponsor Many Weapons, and it will feature interviews, Highlights of the competition, and more. Don’t forget to set your DVR!
5th AZ Open Sold Out!
March 11th, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
560 Competitors!
At 9:37pm on March 10, 2010, the registration for the 5th AZ Int’l Open of BJJ reached its maximum amount of competitors before its original 11:59pm deadline. With 180 in the Kids Division and 380 in the Adult Division, the 5th AZ Int’l Open is the largest BJJ tournament in Arizona history with a total of 560 competitors. Both the brackets and updated tournament schedule are available now, at the tournament website. Surprisingly, the sold out competition is not the only attraction of the 5th AZ Int’l Open. These attractions include:
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Aaron Simpson takedown seminar
March 3rd, 2010 | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu by Email | Subscribe to GD Jiu-Jitsu RSS Feed
UFC Middle Weight Contender, Aaron Simpson, will be teaching a takedown seminar in East Mesa. The seminar will take place on April 3rd from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at East West MMA, located at 2910 N. Power Road in Mesa,AZ. More info at 480-310-5483 or gustavo@gdjiujitsu.com
* $50 Pre-Registration until Wednesday, March 31st (T-Shirt Included)
* $60 Registration on Friday or Saturday (T-Shirt Not-Included)
The seminar has limited space.
The seminar will focus in takedown set ups and counters for Grappling Competitions (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Submission Wrestling) and/or MMA Competitions. Proper way to apply the double and sigle legs, and how to defend properly.
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