Monday, May 12, 2008 Congrats to new SBGi brown, purp & blue belt! Big congratulations due to a new SBGi BJJ brown belt. This Friday (May 9th) I had the great privilage of handing out what is only the third ever brown belt to come out of the Portland Gym. Longtime Portland student and Instructor [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Chris Haueter seminar at Portland Gym! Chris Haueter will be returning to SBGi's Portland Gym for a two day seminar on BJJ. Chris was one of the USA's first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blackbelts, and a longtime Coach and friend to SBGi. The seminar will cover both gi, and no gi. Time: 12 [...]
Monday, March 03, 2008 New SBGi Portland blues & Camp preparation: We had three new blue belt promotions this week at the Portland headquarters. Congrats to Mike and Tim pictured below from day class. And also Chris from ICC, who received his blue after a grueling Friday night iron man session. There won’t be any [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Congrats to new SBGi Instructors! This last Saturday night the Portland Gym held it's annual Christmas party and ICC graduation ceremony. The ICC is the official & only Instructor/Coach course for SBGi, and this class was part of the 13th Year for the ICC! ICC graduates were Dallas Van Winkle, and [...]
Saturday, November 24, 2007 Congrats to new BJJ black & brown belts! Congrats due to SBGi Regional Directors Mike and Rebecca Sweeney! Mike just received his BJJ black belt, and Rebecca received her brown. Both very well deserved. Mike and Rebecca have been training for many Years under Wendell Alexander & Wagnney Fabiano. Those of [...]
Gorilla Press - Fall Camp Review & More, October/November 2007 "Sol y Playa" - SBGi Fall Camp Review SBGi Puerto Vallarta Camp Success!The 10th annual SBGi Fall Camp, which took place this year at a deluxe resort in Puerto Vallarta Mexico was by all accounts fantastic. The camp included three BJJ black belts, five SBGi [...]
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Welcome our first South American SBGi, in Chile! I am happy to announce we have added our very first South American SBGi location! Please welcome: Gimnasio Espartako Contact: Pável Sáenz Av. Pajaritos 5571, Paradero 8, Maipu. Santiago, Chile. Tel: (562) 324-9567 Email: gimnasioespartako@yahoo.com Web: www.gimnasioespartako.blogspot.com Some of you may remember Pável [...]
Monday, July 23, 2007 This last Friday I had the privilege of awarding two great Coaches their new BJJ belts. From left to right, Karl, Kress, Tom and Travis this last Friday at the fights. First up was Karl Tanswell. I have known Karl for about Eight Years now, and those of you that have [...]
Friday, May 18, 2007 We have two new Canadian SBGi ATG's! I am very happy to announce that we have two new ATG's in Canada. Both groups have already trained quite a bit with SBGi, and will probably be known to you. Andrew Carr Locke, who attended the Camp in Niagara falls, the seminars at [...]
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Spring Camp Review Special! First of all, many thanks to Alan and Lily Pagle for being such great hosts, and for carting a bunch of us around all weekend. Modern Combatives was a very cool place to hold this camp. And it was a pretty amazing camp! I would have to [...]
