Tuesday, February 27, 2007 New SBGi BJJ Black Belt! I just returned from a trip to Ireland today, and while I was there I awarded a black belt to SBGi Ireland's John Kavanagh.This is only the second BJJ black belt I have awarded to date, the first being to Luis Gutierrez. Anyone that has rolled [...]
Friday, January 26, 2007 Spring Camp update, new ICC + more! Camp Theme: Feed Your Game "One sensei makes you larger And one sifu makes you small And the ones that master gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask the SBGi when you're ready to roll." This year's Spring Camp is being hosted [...]
Saturday, December 16, 2006 Two new SBGi Instructors and ICC 2006 grads! SBGi world headquarters in Portland OR just held it's annual Christmas party and ICC graduation last night. As usual it was a great time with fantastic people. Regards ICC, it sounds cliche but it is true that this last group, which was the [...]
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 SBGi Fall Camp in Niagara Falls rocked! Despite a freak snow storm that had the Buffalo NY airport closed for the first few days prior to Camp, the annual SBGi Fall Camp in Niagara Falls Canada rocked! Huge thanks to Rich Beaupit for hosting this Years camp. Rich's gym looked fantastic, [...]
Thursday, September 28, 2006 Two new SBGi locations is Sweden! We are proud to welcome two new SBGi locations in Sweden! Matt recently returned from a seminar tour in Sweden. He visited four cities, and ended with a seminar in Stockholm. The first club to join SBGi in Sweden is located in Norrkoping Sweden, and [...]
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Back from the UK, off to Sweden! Just returned back from a great trip to the UK. I took long time Portland SBGi headquarters Coach Rick Davison with me. We taught a packed house in the UK. Much thanks to Karl for doing a lot of work in getting it organized. [...]
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Lots of things have gone on in the last few weeks. Some sad events, and some happy ones. On a sad note we are sorry to report that old school SBG Instructor Greg Piper passed away this June. Here is a note from Matt regarding that: "Some of you old time [...]
Monday, June 12, 2006 Back from Canada & Singapore It's been a busy Month. I had a great time in Trenton Canada working with Jay and his crew. It was also great to see Mike, Rebecca, Rich, Paul and the rest of the Canadian crew. It was good to see everyone. I left the next [...]
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 SBGi go 1-1 at CageWarriors Straight Blast Gym International fighters Paul McVeigh and Arni Isaksson both appeared on the UK MMA promotion CageWarriors last weekend (27th May). McVeigh dishing out some love McVeigh, who fights out of Scotland's most prolific MMA team the "Dinky Ninjas", defended his bantamweight title belt against [...]
Friday, April 28, 2006 Rebecca wins the first ever King of the Cage female fight! Rebecca has her hand raised in victory. April 22, 2006 - What a war! Rebecca won her debut MMA fight via split decision against a very tough Thricia Poovey. In her post-fight interview Rebecca commented that her opponent hits very [...]
