Hey everybody!! Yesterday was the last day of Caio Terra’s training camp for lightweight athletes and it was a killer camp that I am really glad to have been able to participate in. Because of my schedule I was only able to attend the afternoon portion of the camp on mondays and wednesdays […]
Hey Everybody!! This past weekend I had the opportunity to fight with one of my biggest inspirations in Kron Gracie at the San Diego Abu Dhabi Pro Trials. I remember as a young orange belt watching a purple belt match between Kron Gracie and Bill Cooper at Cleber’s Copa Pacific (a fight you […]
Hey everybody! This Saturday is the Abu Dhabi Pro Trials in San Diego and It looks like my division is shaping up to be the toughest and most exciting of the entire event!! I’m competing in the 163 and below Brown and Black Belt division among some of the best competitors in the […]
Hey everybody!! If you haven’t seen this yet, check out the three part documentary on youtube about World Champion Rodolfo Vieira: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytFRICyuC2Y&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roy042H-oQM&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T96utp3GM3M&feature=relmfu I have had the privelage of getting to know Rodolfo personally and he is one of the toughest and most humble people I know. When I met him […]
Hey everybody! The SF Open this past Sunday was a killer event and I’m really glad to have been a part of it even though I didn’t quite achieve the results I had been expecting to. I ended up having five matches total and at the end of the day I went home […]
Hey everybody! The brackets came out for tomorrow’s IBJJF SF Open and it looks like there’s gonna be some sick matchups!! There are a number of high level black belts signed up including Augusto Queixinho and Samir Chantre of Gracie Fighter, Marcel Fortuna of Ralph Gracie, and Tyson Kamp of Coalition 95. In […]
Hey everybody! Yesterday I got the chance to get a tune up before this weekend’s tournament with multiple time black belt world champion Caio Terra. Also in attendance were tough black belts and good friends Augusto Queixinho, Samir Chantre, and Flavio Meier. The training session was killer and I’ve already felt my game get […]
Hey everybody!! I had the pleasure this past weekend of traveling down to Los Angeles to watch the Pan Kids tournament at Cal State Dominguez Hills. The level of Jiu-Jitsu displayed by these children always amazes me. I didn’t even start Jiu-Jitsu until I was ten years old and some of these kids are […]
Hey everybody!! This is Nathan Mendelsohn, third degree brown belt from Claudio Franca BJJ and I’d like to invite you to follow me along for what should be a really exciting 2012 Competition Season!! I’m back and really excited for this year and I’ll be posting here all year long with stories, techniques and […]
The 2011 US Open this past weekend was an awesome event, even though I wasn’t able to secure the result I had hoped for. I ended up winning my first fight 5 to 0 and losing my second fight 4 to 2 for a bronze medal. I then went on to fight the open […]
