Thursday, April 08, 2010 New Black Belt! New purple, and a great camp! On March 27th at the SBGi Spring Camp Matt Thornton awarded his fourth BJJ black belt to longtime student, and SBG Portland Coach Rick Davison. Rick has been with SBG for almost twelve years, and has one of the tightest technical Jits [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010 Spring Camp 2010 is almost here! Fri, Sat, Sun March 26th – 28th At SBGi NV Team Reno! Contact: Ray Price Tel: (775) 530-8518Reno, NV Email: rxjits@sbcglobal.net Web: www.teamrenobjj.com The Instructors roster is still growing, but so far we have John Kavanagh, yes the Irish legend himself will be back, this [...]
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 [...]
