Thursday, September 24, 2009 SBGi winter camp! coming soon! Fri, Sat, Sun December 4th-6th At ModCom Berkeley SBGi 1713 University Avenue Berkeley, CA 94703 Tel: 510-540-828 We have the following instructors scheduled: John Kavanagh, SBGi Ireland’s best and brightest BJJ giant on defeating the BSG (big strong guys) Karl Tanswell – SBGi UK’s Coach genius on (Jits [...]
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Congrats Pan Am winners! Congrats to Gunnar Nelson (AKA: Gunni) for his gold medal win at the Pan Am championships. Five wins in a row, with multiple submissions, Gunni represents the talent of the second generation SBG athletes. It's always been a bit humorous when some critics mention that although SBGi [...]
Monday, March 30, 2009 Ireland seminar & congrats to SBGi Sweden! Matt Thornton recently completed his annual seminar tour in Ireland and Sweden. Here is a short write up: The moving walkway from concourse C in Chicago International, I have been here way too much. As always the Ireland trip was a great deal of [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009 Matt’s 40th B day Party! When: Saturday March 21st Spring Camp Weekend (post roseland fight 9ish) Where: Republic Café 222 NW 4th ave (downtown/chinatown) Who: All SBGr’s and their family
Congratulations Matt & Salome! SBGI members, family and friends came from all over to be part of the celebration that was Matt & Salome's wedding. It was a beautiful time... congrats to a great couple! Competition Team Results SBG Portland MMA Fight Results Hamilton Ask, Kress Matijacik and his brother Tom all had hard-fought [...]
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Huge news for SBGi headquarters in Oregon! Huge announcement for SBGi headquarters! Were Upgrading! Having begun well over fifteen years ago, the Portland gym is known throughout the world for its first class coaching. We are the home of Oregon’s first BJJ black belts, as well as Oregon’s first MMA gym. [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008 Team SBG competition results! + more It's been a busy few weeks for Team SBGi. First off, huge congratulations to Rosi Sexton for winning her fight against Debi Purcell in the Elite XC show, broadcast on Showtime. Way to go Rosi! Shortly thereafter Gunnar Nelson soundly defeated his Brazilian BJJ black [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Congrats to new blues! I recently returned from a weekend seminar at WCFC, the Bellingham WA SBGi run by Cody Houston. Just got back from a weekend of teaching up at Cody's WCFC. First off it's obvious Cody is doing great up there, all the students had solid games, moved really [...]
Gorilla Press - July 2008 SBG Fall Camp 2008 When: Friday, Oct 24th - Sunday, Oct 26th Where: SBG International East Coast Regional Headquarters Nexus Martial Arts 14 Kendrick Road, Wareham, MA 02571 Tel: 508.295.5427 Fly-in suggestions: Fly into T.F. Greene in Providence, RI (PVD) or Logan in Boston (BOS). Providence is small and easy, [...]
Gorilla Press - June 2008 Play As The Way on ESPN (Sorry about the delay in getting out the newsletter... due to a technical error with the service - ed.) Cool news from Luis: "ESPN just spent all of Saturday morning until 5PM fiming our PAW program and interviewing kids and parents. They interviewed me [...]
