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.

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

GMA member Sergio Vita has some great news about the recent European Open.

Icon JJ Team, formed by Vita JJ and other schools, had a great showing in Lisbon.

The team finished first for the second year in a row at the white belt division and also won the Master and Seniors division.

Vita talked about the accomplishment: “That shows that our organization is evolving nad getting better. Our goal for next year is to win again.”

Individually, Vita also excelled, as he tells us: “I finished third at the lightweight and was the runner up at the absolute, fighting Saulo Ribeiro at the final.”