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 title fights on Dec. 6th. For a full recap and pics of the event, check out the new SBG Portland headquarters blog at www.straightblastgym.com/wordpress (or click on the link at the bottom of this article).

SBG in the UFC

Best of luck to Tom “the Tank” Egan of SBG Dublin / Irish Top Team on his debut a UFC 93, which will be held in his home town.

Team Ronin / SBG NY Grappling Results

Team Ronin Athletics had another great showing at the local grappling tournament this time around it was the NAGC (North American Grappling Championship) on Nov. 8th Essex County College in Newark, NJ:

Liz Milizio – 1st place (Women’s beginner No-Gi flyweight)

Zak Koonce – 1st place (Men’s Master’s Intermediate No-Gi Lightweight)

Justin Choi – 2nd place (Men’s Novice No-Gi Flyweight)

Adrian Czmielewski – 2nd place (Men’s Beginner No-Gi Middleweight)

Mike Letang – 2nd place (Men’s Intermediate No-Gi Featherweight)

Samir Mrabet – 3rd place (Men’s Blue Belt Gi Welterweight)

Liz Milizio – 3rd place (Women’s white belt flyweight)

Also major props to: Dave Aakhus, George Stafford, and James Han … even though they didn’t place this time around, they all came in, put it on the line, had tough matches and will most definitely be back.

Coach Christian Montes went 0-2 for the day in the No-Gi Expert division 2-0, but came back two weeks later to win a bronze in the Master’s Expert middleweight division of the Chicago NAGA comp.

Team Beaupit/SBG Canada: Tops in Niagara

“I want to inform everyone that after looking at all of the results for this year from every tournament we have entered, and comparing them to the rest of the teams in the Niagara Region, Team Beaupit/SBG Canada is the most traveled and winningest Competition Team for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu/Submission Wrestling for 2008.

I am very proud of my guys, not just for their accomplishments on the mat, but for the way they conduct themselves off the mats as well. And for always being the team that has the MOST FUN!”

-Rich Beaupit

West Coast Fight Club “Fight Night Round 1” Results

“We had an amazing weekend in Bellingham, WA.  WCFC pulled off it’s first “Fight Night” amateur mma event in a series of many to come!!  And all that I can say is WOW!! My expectations were exceeded.   We had a sell out crowd of 1250 and the WCFC team put on one of the best amateur MMA shows that I have ever been to and I have been to alot.  A couple of highlights include Ryan Couture’s MMA debut, the main event with WCFC’s Elisey Yarovoy, the fight of the night with WCFC’s Frank Pefferman (took the fight on one days notice), and several other great matches.  NWfightscene was there and wrote an outstanding review as well a took some amazing pictures.”

-Cody Houston

SBG Toronto at Canada’s Biggest Tourney

We had 3 athletes at this event, all No Gi, over 30yrs old, and of them first timers.
Of the three, we came home with 2 medals and a belt! (2 silver,1 gold)

Big congrats to Shawn Lawlor (Masters Advanced 175-199 Champion…incidently he weighed in at 176.5), Katrin Taylor (Beginner +145 Silver Medalist) and Wegen Chow(Masters Beginner -154.9 Silver Medalist)

-Jason Lancucki

New SBG Portland News Blog, Click Here

 

New Boxing for MMA DVD Set

For the first time ever SBGi competition team boxing coach Brian Walsh brings his unique, innovative, and incredibly effective stand up training methods to the public at large. Find out for yourself why so many MMA fighters are turning to Brian’s creative drilling techniques in order to develop high level striking in an MMA environment.

This series starts by focusing on how to bridge the gap between technical boxing and the MMA game. Brian works with athletes of varying skill levels: from the veteran MMA cage fighter to an athlete attending their very first stand-up fighting class, in order to show you how to bring your own game up, regardless of where you are at now in terms of ability. Brian also shows you how to make stand up drills alive, and how to modify them on the real-time performance results of the athletes. Brian’s focus is on movement and power. To quote Brian “great striking is about lay ups, not free throws”. Learn why Matt Thornton calls Brian Walsh “The most creative stand up coach I have ever met.”

DVD 1: Boxing for MMA: Stand-Up Fundamentals. Proper stance, the importance of posture, how to wrap the hands properly, functional boxing warmup exercises, how to generating extreme power in your punches, different agility drills to develop reaction time, proper use of angles and positioning, and various creative drills for developing all of the above.
Run time = 70 minutes

DVD 2: Boxing for MMA: The lead hand.  The fundamentals of the jab, jab agility and footwork drills, use of the lead hand for both offense and defense, jab drills and sparring drills galore, the use of the jab for MMA: bridging boxing to MMA, using the lead hand out of the clinch, countering the jab in MMA, using kicks with the jab.          Run time = 80 minutes

DVD 3: Boxing for MMA: The rear hand, power and combos. Mechanics of the power cross, recovery when you miss, offense, defense, and counterpunching. Using the lead hook to the body, using your punching to counter kicks. Tons of drills.
Run time =  70 minutes

DVD 4: Boxing for MMA: MMA striking in stand up, clinch & ground. The art of level changing, slipping and agility drills, boxing to clinch/takedown drills, striking defense against necktie drills, taking the back drills. Fundamentals of striking from top position ground drills: Guard, Half-guard, and Mount.
Run time =   65 minutes

DVD 5: Boxing for MMA: MMA Kicking Offense.  Brian Walsh and SBGi Coach Eric Hemphill demonstrate many MMA kicking drills, as well as everything you need for kicking offense fundamentals.
Run time = 60 minutes

Look for it in the SBG Online store at the link below (available within the next 24 hours).

SBGi Online Store, Click Here

 

NEW “Submission Underground” Superior BJJ DVDs

Eric Hemphill started boxing as a child, and has been training in BJJ for the last 14 years. As one of Oregon’s first BJJ black belts Eric has a reputation for solid fundamentals as well as very quick and sneaky submissions. Eric’s game is highly unique! As an SBGi BJJ black belt his basics are all sound, but in addition to that Eric is known for having an extremely unique style. We guarantee that no matter how many SBGi products (or other companies DVD sets) you currently have, the material on this DVD set will be brand new. This set will bring a whole new approach, and a whole new set of attacks to your groundgame! Each DVD flows into the next, offering you a complete look at Eric’s creative and effective BJJ style, from passing, to control, to finish, it’s all there.

DVD 1: Passing the Guard Explosively.  Eric Hemphill, SBGi Coach and BJJ black belt shows you how to immediately up your guard passing game. Eric shares critical details that will allow you to survive and pass anyone’s guard and dominate!  Passing guard fundamentals, posture and pressures, opening the closed guard, . The sneaky S Pass. The double underhook pass (this is one of Eric’s specialties and you will find a ton of detail here), the in and out pass, stepping away and stepping in passes, standing passes, Plus lots more!
Run time = APPROX 60 min

DVD 2: Side saddle versus turtle & the attacking top game: Fundamentals of the posture & controlling 1/4 top, chokes, leg traps versus near arm, turning it to cross sides, cross sides attack progressions including taking mount, lapel chokes, shoulder locks, armbars, and triangles, taking the back from crossides.
Run Time APPROX 60 min

DVD 3: Deadly Back Attacks: Learn how to manage and control the back using Eric’s own unique methods. Material includes Eric’s version of harness, grip and pressures, rear lapel chokes multiple sneaky chokes, plus an entire section on drilling and teaching, including footage of Eric working with BJJ students of various levels from white to purple belts.
Run time APPROX 55 min

Price:  1 or 2 DVDs $45.00 each. Entire three DVD series only 99.00!

Look for it in the SBG Online store at the link below.

 

SBGi Online Store, Click Here