Prizes go up to 150,000usd GP FOR FEMALES for the first time in history The team in Jordan has been hard at work organizing an event to shock the BJJ world. With Jiu-Jitsu super stars like Andre Galvao, Cobrinha, Braulio Estima, Rominho Barral, Sergio Moraes, Gabriel Vella and Marcelo Garcia and many more now its […]
Acontecera no dia 23 de Outubro em Brasilia um grande evento organizado e patrocinado pela Federacao Jordaniana de Jiu jitsu.Este evento tem como objetivo promover o Jiu Jitsu na capital federal e paralelamente um desafio internacional envolvendo a selacao militar Jordaniana que estara fazendo um camp de treinamento nesse periodo em Brasilia e um time […]
Amman, Jordan- Headed by Zaid Mirza, Pedro Galiza and Jonatas Gurgel, Jordan Team is sending 36 Jiu-Jitsu athletes to participate in the 1st Super Asian Cup, which takes place next Friday the 14th in the prestigious Abu Dhabi Combat Club. Under the patronage of Sheikh Zayed Bin Mohamad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the two day […]
For the first time in history, Jordan is sending five of it’s finestJiu-Jitsu athletes to participate in the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship,commonly known as the Mundials. It will be the first participatin ofan Arab country in the championship. The competitors/ team memberswill include, Zaid Mirza (Founder of the Brazilian Jiu-JitsuFederation of Jordan,) Jonatas Gurgel, Zaid Abu […]
Amman, Jordan- Part of His Majesty King Abdullah II Private Royal Guards training session Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In the picture Zaid Mirza (Consultant for Jordan Armed Forces), and trainers Pedro Galiza from Brazil, and Mo Armouti from Jordan.
Five New Blue Belts for Jordan Team Amman, Jordan- The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation of Jordan graduated 5 new Blue Belts yesterday. The fighters were promoted for achieving a higher technical, physical and mental understanding of the game. The fighters are: – HRH Prince Hashim Bin Al Hussein- Jahid Said- Yousef Zoumot- Azam Masri- Zaid Shuqman […]
AMMAN—Ordered by His Majesty King Abdullah II, the Jordanian Army will now start training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The Jordanian army has previous skills and certifications in Tae Kwon Do, Judo, and Sijal (a Jordanian self-defense style similar to Krav Maga); However, since the emergence of BJJ in Jordan andthe superiority of this martial art, it has […]
Amman, Jordan- After signing with KADDB last year, it was the turn of King Abdullah Investment Fund (KAIF) to sign with Zaid Mirza a sponsorship agreement for the 2007 year. The Jordanian Jiu-Jitsu Team new Sponsor shows alot of excitment and incentive in the new partnership. “This kind of sponsorship helps us achieve our goals […]
Introducing a new sport into a country is quite difficult in its own right; imagine also having the task of educating and proving the effectiveness of a martial art against one as established internationally as Judo. Although we all know that this has been done time and time again on the mat, my struggle took […]
H.H. Principe Hussein Mirza e Zaid Mirza montam Federacao de Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) na Jordania. Primeira Federacao de Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu na Asia foi estabelecida essa semana. A Federacao de Jiu-Jitsu se tornou reconhecida pelo Comite Olimpico e orgaos oficiais do governo. Este foi um grande passo para levar o Jiu-Jitsu para as Olimpidas. Essa iniciativa comecou […]
