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It is prime to see how the gentle art continues to connect people from all over the world while more gyms and BJJ events keep open their doors everywhere.

The camaraderie movement is no different in the old continent. Last Saturday, on September 27^th, GMA Icon Jiu-Jitsu team from Genève in Switzerland lead by black belt Anderson Pereira ran a in-house tournament, the Icon JJ Internal European Cup that brought together 90 competitors from various affiliated schools in Europe and its surroundings, which included Switzerland, France, England and Algeria.

The competition standouts were Bienne Paulo de Oliveira and Filipe Maia. Both athletes from Icon JJ Genève closed out the brown and black belt open weight division.

Learn more about Icon JJ team and their victories here.

At the 2014 Ericeira Jiu-Jitsu Camp, you can surf, train Jiu-Jitsu and Judo, as well as explore the coast of Portugal.

The camp will be taught and led from Sept. 18-21 by Ze Marcello, Sergio Vita, Vineicius Constantino, and GMA member Anderson Pereira of Icon BJJ Swiss.

The training will consist of both BJJ and judo for two hours a day. There will also be two surfing lessons with the wetsuit and surfboard included.

You can reserve your spot for this adventure 220 euros via bank transfer.

Contact zemarcello@mac.com for more information and to register.

Icon Jiu-Jitsu Team group picture. Photo: personal archive

The GMA Icon Jiu-Jitsu Team from Genève, Switzerland hosted a belt ceremony last week where 95 students, including adults and children, got promoted to a new belt rank by the black belt professor Anderson Pereira. In the Spotlight, there were 3 new black belts: Ilke Bulut, who is a brown belt adult Europeans champion; his brother Okan Bulut, and another student named Jean Marie. All the affiliated schools were present in this event.

Icon JJ team
Anderson Pereira
81 Av. Lois Casai
Shinbudo Geneve – 1216
www.iconjjbgeneve.ch

Icon JJ Team celebrating at the podium in Zurich

GMA member Anderson Pereira is very pleased with his team in Switzerland.

His students did a great job at the recent Zurich International Open, the first ever IBJJF event in that country.

After sweeping medals all around, Icon BJJ ended the teams competition in first place, with 295 pts.

Pereira would like to highlight the results of his white belt and blue belt girls and also his male white belts for their great effort and outstanding results.

Individually, purple belt Danny Feliz was the open class champion.

For more info on Icon BJJ, go to  iconjjbgeneve.ch

GMA member Anderson Pereira, leader of Icon JJ Geneve, sends some good news.

Last weekend his students competed in the 5th Neuchatel Cup and the results couldn’t be better.

At the end  of the day, Icon JJ was on top of the overall teams competition, followed by Kimura and Team As.

“I want to thank all my students for their hard work that led to this amazing result,” said Anderson.

For more info, go to iconjjbgeneve.ch

After a thrilling European 2014, GMA member Anderson Pereira had a nice surprise for his students.

On February 1, he welcomed Professor Cicero Costha to a seminar at Icon JJ Geneve.

The class was a success with over 40 people on the mats.

Cicero Costha is the leader of a very successful team in Brazil.

He helped in the development of huge talents such as Leandro Lo and the Miyao Bros.

For more info on Icon JJ Geneve, go to www.iconjjbgeneve.ch.

Black belt Anderson Pereira welomed fellow GMA member Sergio Vita for an Icon JJ Team tournament, recently.

Professors Berilo Júnior, from Barcelona; Zé Marcello, from England and Xandinho Izidro, from France, were also present.

The event had also a seminar by Master Crézio de Souza, a Carlson Gracie black belt.

He taught gi and nogi techniques.

Vita talked about the purpose of the event: “We want to unite the team to make a lot of noise at the upcoming 2012 European Open, in January”.

GMA member Anderson Pereira, from Geneve, put on a great competition recently in Switzerland.

The Coupe Suisse No-Gi gathered 200 athletes in Geneve.

Another GMA member played the role of referee director.

Servio Vita flew from Portugal to give a hand.

Here are the results of the Teams competition:

Tiko finalizou no mata-leão, ainda no primeiro assalto.

Nosso GMA Anderson Pereira manda notícias da Suíça, onde no fim de semana rolou uma marcante edição do evento de MMA Strength and Honor.

“Meu aluno, o brasileiro e faixa-marrom Claudemir de Souza, o Tiko, lutou bem aqui Genebra nesse sábado, quando venceu o francês Mourad Benseguir com um mata-leão no primeiro round”, conta o professor.

Na luta principal da noite, Jeff Monson venceu o duro judoca croata Maro Perak por decisão dos jurados. Outro destaque foi o tunisiano Karim Ait Khalifa, um especialista em finalizações que faz parte da equipe Alliance, que encaixou uma kimura no primeiro assalto. Confira os resultados:

Após a kimura, o tunisiano celebrou com o kimono da academia. Fotos: Roland Peter Shaer.

Strength and Honor 4
Genebra, Suíça
30 de abril de 2011

Karla Benitez Sanja Sucevic venceu por interrupção médica após o 1R
Sasa Mitrovic derrotou Cesar Augusto por interrupção médica a 1min do 1R
Claudemir Souza finalizou Murad Benseghir no mata-leão a 3min41s do 1R
Karim Ait Khalifa finalizou Alen Dolicanin na kimura a 1min19s do 1R
Nelson Carvalho finalizou Paddy Doherty na guilhotina aos 37s do 1R
Ivan Mussardo e Hristomir Hristov empataram
Olavo Belo venceu Greg Loughran na kimura a 2min25s do 2R
Olivier Pastor venceu Leandro Gontijo por decisão unânime dos jurados
Mats Nilsson finalizou Nikos Sokol no triângulo a 1min41s do 1R
Michelle Verginelli empatou com Norman Paraisy
Francis Kelly finalizou Anundson Carmont no braço a 2min06s do 1R
Jeff Monson derrotou Maro Perak por decisão unânime após 3R

O sueco Mats Nilsson venceu com um triângulo espetacular.

Tiko won via first-round rear naked choke

Our GMA Anderson Pereira sent in news from Switzerland, where last weekend a landmark installment of the MMA Strength and Honor event took place.

“My student Claudemir “Tiko” de Souza, a Brazilian brown belt, fought well here in Geneva this Saturday, beating France’s Mourad Benseguir with a rear naked choke in the first round,” says the teacher.

In the evening’s main event, Jeff Monson overcame tough Croatian judoka Maro Perak via judges’ decision. Another standout was Tunisia’s Karim Ait Khalifa, a submission specialist from team Alliance. He won by kimura in the first round. Check out the results:

Following his kimura win, The Tunisian celebrated by displaying his academy's gi. Photos: Roland Peter Shaer.

Strength and Honor 4
Geneva, Switzerland
April 30, 2011

Karla Benitez Sanja Sucevic won by doctor’s intervention in R1
Sasa Mitrovic defeated Cesar Augusto by doctor’s intervention in R1
Claudemir Souza subbed Murad Benseghir via rear naked choke at 3:41 min of R1
Karim Ait Khalifa subbed Alen Dolicanin via kimura at 1:19 min of R1
Nelson Carvalho finalizou Paddy Doherty na guilhotina aos 37s do 1R
Ivan Mussardo and Hristomir Hristov fought to a draw
Olavo Belo defeated Greg Loughran via kimura at 2:25 min of R2
Olivier Pastor defeated Leandro Gontijo via unanimous decision
Mats Nilsson subbed Nikos Sokol via triangle at 1:41s of R1
Michelle Verginelli and Norman Paraisy fought to a drawFrancis Kelly subbed Anundson Carmont via
armbar at 2:06 min of R1
Jeff Monson defeated Maro Perak via unanimous decision after R3