Xande Ribeiro encara Keenan Cornelius no Metamoris 6. Foto: Ivan Trindade/GRACIEMAG

O Metamoris anunciou seu plantel para a sexta edição do torneio. O evento está programado para 9 de maio. O local do campeonato ainda não foi confirmado.

Campeão absoluto do ADCC 2013, Roberto “Cyborg” Abreu mede forças contra o finalizador e ex-campeão do UFC Josh Barnett, na luta principal da noite.

Ex-atleta do UFC também, o faixa-preta de Jiu-Jitsu cascudo Renato “Babalu” Sobral encara o polêmico Chael Sonnen no co-evento principal.

Outra atração no torneio de lutas casadas será o duelo entre Xande Ribeiro (Ribeiro) e Keenan Cornelius (Atos).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2E9jI8ke0

Confira o card completo:

Metamoris 6

9 de maio de 2015

Roberto Cyborg x Josh Barnett

Renato Babalu x Chael Sonnen

Xande Ribeiro x Keenan Cornelius

Clark Gracie x Roberto Satoshi

Jeff Monson x campeão do reality show do Metamoris

Bruno Fernandes open class champion Photo: Andrei Tanasescu

The IBJJF has announced the Madrid International Open has reached 95% capacity for its tournament set for Saturday, Nov. 22 in Madrid, Spain.

Alternatively, for the North Americans, the Montreal International Open is still open for registration and will be held on the same day.

In Madrid, black belts have gathered from all over Europe. Jorge Elias, who recently competed and won in Moscow will be in the light-feather division. Sergio Calderon and Simone Franceschini will face off in the feather division as the lone fighters so far. Luca Anacoreta makes his way for the middle division. Black belt females will have a match in the lightweight division between Michelle Nicolini and Maria Gonzalez.

You can register for the event but hurry as there is a chance it could close any time. Go here: https://www.ibjjfdb.com/CampeonatoInscricao/Edit?CampeonatoId=326&FederacaoId=3 

Montreal International Open still has spots to fill for the Nov. 22 event to be held at Centre Pierre Charbonneau located at 3000 rue Viau Montréal, Québec, Canada. Some of the teams that are already on board include: BTT, Alliance, Gracie Barra, Renzo Gracie, Ribeiro JJ, Toronto BJJ, Vitor Shaolin BJJ and more.

Join the ranks and register here before the Nov. 14 deadline: https://www.ibjjfdb.com/CampeonatoInscricao/Edit?CampeonatoId=327&FederacaoId=3

Learn more at www.ibjjf.com

Sua final foi contra o campeão mundial Rafael Lovato (Ribeiro). A luta começou equilibrada, mas Cachorrinho conseguiu espaço para chegar na lateral e pegar as costas de Lovato. Com calma, o atleta da GB foi capaz de usar a lapela para estrangular. Reveja!

Learn more about Toronto BJJ at www.torontobjj.com

Darragh in the brown belt GP at the 2013 World Jiu-Jitsu Expo. Photo: Erin Herle

Darragh O’Conaill is a brown belt under Saulo Ribeiro from Dublin, Ireland who has made his name in various international tournaments. Having medaled at the Pan Championship as well as the Europeans, he’s looking to make his move at the World Championship next week in Long Beach, CA to earn the world title.

I caught up with Darragh as he made his way to San Diego for the final preparations and learned how he got started in Jiu-Jitsu, what his days are like, how he feels about traveling to compete and what he believes is necessary for winning the big tournaments. Read on:

GRACIEMAG: How did you find Jiu-Jitsu and get into the tournament scene as well as start teaching?

DARRAGH O’CONAILL: I was first introduced to Jiu-Jitsu by my PE teacher in high school when I was around 16. He was a blue belt and taught some classes in the school I attended. At the time, rugby was my passion having played since I was eight years old. I played full time for my final two years in high school and did no Jiu-Jitsu but when I went to college to play rugby I got burnt out and stopped enjoying it. Wanting to keep fit and involved in a sport I got in contact with my old PE teacher and attended the Jiu-Jitsu classes he was teaching at a local gym. That was roughly 2007.

I was naturally competitive having played rugby for so long and entering tournaments was an obvious route for me. From my first time competing I was hooked but the scene in Ireland was so small it meant I had to travel to England and around Europe alone to gain experience.

By 2010 the academy had grown to have about 25/30 members, but my instructor had a lot of injuries and found it frustrating to keep teaching without being able to train so he offered me the chance to take over the academy for him. I had fallen in love with everything to do with Jiu-Jitsu at this point: teaching, training, competing, and couldn’t say no to the offer. I had a great job at the time working afternoons that allowed me to teach and train both in the morning and night until the academy was big enough to quit and teach/train full time. Four years on I now have my own full time academy in a new location with roughly 100 students!

When did you hook up with Rafael Lovato Jr. and his team in terms of mentorship and affiliation?

My school is a Ribeiro Team affiliate and I was introduced to Lovato by my teammate and friend from Germany, Johannes Wieth. I met Johannes in 2010 training at the University of Jiu-Jitsu in San Diego. Johannes had been to Oklahoma City to train [with Lovato] and strongly recommended I make the trip and check it out. In 2012 I travelled there for a couple months for Worlds training and loved everything about it. Since then, Rafael has been to my academy in Ireland four times and i’ve been to Oklahoma City three times. He has helped me so much not only with my skills on the mat but with my mental game and academy, too. I am beyond grateful for all the help and support he’s given me, as well as all Saulo has done for me.

Let me know what it’s like to have to travel everywhere to compete and how you adjust to that.

Having to travel everywhere to compete is not an issue for me at all really. It’s all I’ve ever known so I have nothing else to compare it to. I love travelling and have gotten to see so many amazing places because of Jiu-Jitsu. While the journeys may be long and sometimes tiring, it gives me a lot of time to think and of course I’m so grateful to have the chance to do what I love for a living so I can’t really complain!

Describe your busiest day for training, teaching and any another priorities.

A typical day for me would be to wake up around 8:30 a.m., do some yoga and eat. Head to the academy for 11 a.m. to drill, teach class and train from 12-2 p.m. Every second day we have competition team training from 4-6 p.m. Then I teach class and train again from 7 to roughly 10 p.m. Within those times, depending on the day, I also find time to cook/eat, drill with my girlfriend and take care of business at the academy.

What is the most valuable aspect of training necessary to do well in competition?

I think there are a lot of aspects necessary to do well in competition, but one of the most important for me is developing an extremely strong mental game. Everybody trains hard, does drills, lots of rounds, shark tanks, whatever. The people who make the podium are not necessarily the ones who train the hardest or with the most skill, because I believe everybody at the biggest tournaments train hard and are skilled. The ones who medal are those with the greatest will to win, the most self-belief. They have the strongest and calmest minds under pressure. In my opinion, the development of your mind and self-belief is the most important aspect of your training.

Training with Lovato. Photo: Personal archive

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Rafael Lovato em ação no Jiu-Jitsu. Foto: Rafael Carvalho

Sábado não é dia apenas de UFC, de Ronda Rousey e Demian Maia. Os fãs de Jiu-Jitsu também tem, nos dias 22 e 23 de fevereiro, o Houston Open para ficar de olho. O torneio da IBJJF será no ginásio Jerabeck Activity and Athletic Center, em Houston, no Texas.

Entre as feras, Spenser Anthonin (pena), Vitor Oliveira e Julian Martin (médio), Diego Gamonal, Rhalan Gracie e Marcus Antelante (meio-pesado), Gabriel Garcia e James Puopolo (pesadíssimo).

No master, Rafael Lovato (superpesado) e Bruno Bastos (pesadíssimo) buscam o ouro.

Para quem vai a sua torcida, amigo leitor? E quem leva o absoluto? Comente aqui.

Para auxiliar seus estudos de Jiu-Jitsu, GRACIEMAG traz hoje um clássico meio-pesado, que ocorreu durante o Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu 2012.

Mineiro radicado nos EUA, Romulo Barral (Gracie Barra) levou a melhor sobre Rafael Lovato (Ribeiro) em uma luta  eletrizante.

Assista e aprenda os macetes para raspar qualquer adversário.

Toronto BJJ Team at the 2012 IBJJF Toronto International Open / Photo provided by Jorge Britto

The IBJJF Toronto Open set for August 3 has extended registration until tomorrow night, July 28 at 11:59 p.m. PST. If you have yet to register, do so now before the window officially closes.

The location of the event is at York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON, Canada.

For $115 you can claim your IBJJF title and gold medal alongside some names from notable teams like Alliance, Roger Gracie Academy, Gracie Humaita, Nova Uniao, Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu, Mendes Bros, Toronto BJJ and more.

The tournament has divisions from white belt to black belt, juvenile to senior 2.

Go here to register.

Lovato é o campeão absoluto do Brasileirão 2013, em Barueri, São Paulo. Foto: Rafael Carvalho/GRACIEMAG

Nas arquibancadas, um silêncio respeitoso seguiu-se ao título absoluto de Rafael Lovato Jr, após o americano da escola Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu passar a guarda com estilo e finalizar Ricardo Evangelista na chave kimura.

Foi a primeira vez que um estrangeiro chegou no topo do aberto de um Brasileiro, decorrência inevitável da globalização e do sucesso internacional do Jiu-Jitsu na última década. A torcida, apesar de não aplaudir muito o momento histórico, reconheceu a técnica de Lovato.

As finais da faixa-preta do campeonato, realizado em Barueri, São Paulo, terminaram um pouco antes das 20h, e houve outros momentos memoráveis.

No superpesado, o novato João Gabriel Rocha não respeitou os dois ouros mundiais de Léo Nogueira (Alliance) e partiu para dentro. Após pegar as costas, o astro da Soul Fighters venceu por 11 a 2, e ouviu o berro vindo da sua torcida: “Chegou agora e já sentou na janela!”.

Brilhou também a estrela de Ricardo Evangelista. O vice-campeão absoluto venceu Rodrigo Cavaca com autoridade, por pontos, na final do pesadíssimo, antes da batalha com Lovato.

No feminino, o grande nome foi Luanna Alzuguir (Alliance), campeã absoluto na faixa-preta após finalizar Michelle Nicolini.

João Gabriel venceu oponentes duros, goleou Léo Nogueira na final e provou que já é uma realidade na elite do Jiu-Jitsu mundial. Foto: Rafael Carvalho

Outro destaque foi Dimitrius Souza, também da Alliance, que eliminou Rafael Lovato no peso pesado e acabou campeão brasileiro, após ter vencido também o Europeu em janeiro. Mais uma fera da Cohab que venceu a vida dura em Sampa e dá o bom exemplo no esporte.

Por equipes, a Alliance venceu o adulto masculino e feminino, enquanto a Gracie Barra varreu as categorias de base.

Veja os demais resultados na faixa-preta:

Galo: Ivaniel Oliveira (CheckMat) venceu Felipe Costa (Brasa) por pontos

Pluma: Pablo Santos (Gracie Barra) finalizou Carlos “Esquisito” Holanda (CheckMat) no triângulo

Pena: Leonardo “Cascão” Saggioro (Brazilian Top Team) venceu Mario Reis (Alliance) na decisão dos juízes

Leve: Juan Kamezawa (Alliance) fechou com Michael Langhi (Alliance)

Médio: Murilo Santana (Barbosa JJ) fechou com Adriano Silva (Barbosa JJ)

Meio-pesado: Rodrigo Fajardo (Gracie Barra) raspou Tarsis Humphreys (Alliance)

Pesado: Dimitrius Souza (Alliance) venceu Leonardo Maciel (GFTeam)

Superpesado: João Gabriel (Soul Fighters) venceu Léo Nogueira (Alliance) por 11 a 2

Pesadíssimo: Ricardo Evangelista (GFTeam) venceu Rodrigo Cavaca (CheckMat) por pontos

Absoluto: Rafael Lovato Jr (Ribeiro JJ) finalizou Ricardo Evangelista (GFTeam) na chave kimura

FEMININO:

Absoluto: Luanna Alzuguir (Alliance) pegou Michelle Nicolini (CheckMat)

Pluma: Angélica Vieira (Atos)

Leve: Luiza Monteiro (Cicero Costha) venceu Marina Ribeiro (CheckMat)

Médio: Luanna Alzuguir (Alliance) venceu Barbara Gomes (Universidade de Brasília)

Meio-pesado: Diana Menezes (Bonsai) venceu Talita Nogueira (Ryan Gracie)

Pesado: Fernanda Mazzelli (Striker) venceu Andressa Correa (Alliance)

Superpesado: Luzia Fernandes (Gracie Barra) venceu Michelle Nicolini (CheckMat)

Pesadíssimo: Maria Teixeira (De La Riva)

MARROM

Absoluto: Paulo Miyao (Cícero Costha) venceu AJ Agazarm (Gracie Barra) na final

Veja os resultados completos no site da CBJJ.

Make history at the Pan Ams like Rafael Lovato Jr. Photo by Mike Poeschl.

Rafael Lovato Jr. is the only adult American black belt to claim gold at the Pan American Championships. In 2008 he claimed his second gold in a match against Roberto Alencar that left him fighting until the very end, coming into the lead from a shaky start.

The Pan American Championships are a place for everyone to put it all on the line. And as the biggest tournament in the world, in sunny California, in the midst of a Jiu-Jitsu mecca, your matches will remain a moment to remember in your jiu-jitsu journey.

As for Lovato, he made history, and in the match below he shows why his first title at the 2007 Pan was not enough to show what he is capable of. Watch how Lovato escapes a tight triangle and comes out for the win.

Don’t miss the registration deadline and the chance to make your own history something to remember as Rafael Lovato Jr. has done for the sport!

Make sure you register before the deadline of March 12 at 11:59 p.m. PT!

Click here to register for the 2013 Pan Ams that will be held from March 20-24!

The Brenn Event Center at UC Irvine is located at 100 Bren Event Center Irvine, California 92617.