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Graciemag put a video on Facebook which shows some fantastic footage of Braulio Estima in various gi and no gi comps.

Whoever put the video together did a great job in timing bits with the music.

I hope you enjoy it.

It is a favourite technique of Braulio’s so if he thinks it’s good it’s got to be worth paying special attantion to.

See yourself submitting someone on your next training session in style?  Watch, learn, practice, apply.  That’s all you need to do.

Enjoy

Just a little bit of info until we have more details.

Matt Norris, Matt Delauney and Leigh Le Blancq have put themselves forward to fight in the Brighton Open taking place on 4th April.

We wish them well and hope they continue to get results like they have been getting recently.

Also, on another note, Braulio will be back in the island in June for another weekend of training.

There is no set date yet but we will keep you informed of this as soon as the details have been finalised.

Cheers

Rob and Andy are the first Channel Islanders to receive their brown belts and there are only 11 other people who have received this belt from Braulio at all.

Now on to the good news, Rob and Toppo are pretty good and locking people up in knots and making them squirm, beg for mercy, pass out or simply throw up.  Such is their ability.  So it is with great pleasure that I am able to say that the club had a lot of students there on Saturday for their gradings.

No, I don’t mean because we all think they do a wonderful job at the club putting in lots of hours for the members and training them to a very high standard as is obvious if you have read recent posts on the competition results our BJJ combatants have achieved.

No, no, no.  I meean because it was a very full house and lots of people to participate in the whippings.

This was not to be the usual whippings though and I am really sorry that I was not there to see it and actually take part.  This was brutal.

I felt sorry for Matt Norris who recently was awarded his purple belt so was forced to endure the onslaught himself. 

Instead of the usual running of the gauntlet, Matt, Rob and Toppo had to stand apart from each other in a line in the middle of the room whilst every member walked around and gave each of them a folded belt accross the back.  But wait, if that’s not enough, Braulio insisted that everyone went round three times dishing out as much punishment with each stroke as their training weary bodies allowed them to do.

For those of you who know Braulio and think he’s a nice guy, think again.  Pure barbarian with a great big smile.  He doesn’t just fold his belt….no.  He doesn’t just whip his belt….No.

He platts his belt so it looks like some kind of chain and he puts so much effort in to the strike that if there was no body, ie, Rob, Toppo, Matt, there to take the blow, he would still be spinning like a tornado now.

I have attached some images of the whippings, bruises and final rewards.

Joking aside, the belts are well deserved and only goes to show the kind of class instructors and students our little Jersey club has.

Friday night no gi session started with a quick warm up and straight into
it ,going over and tightening up on some previous techniques and adding
some fine detail,of course some rolling.

Saturday started with a session for the junior members of the Academy ,
with 20 juniors attending it was a great training session, at the end
Braulio awarded stripes to a number of the juniors.

20 students turn out for the GI session which was great to see , Chris
Goldsbrough came over from the GSY  Academy with 3 students ,Brauilo was due to go over to the GSY academy on the Sunday.

The session started with the warm up then into some cool guard passing
techniques, as ever Braulio pulled the techniques apart and in is own
unique way explained ever detail so everyone from white to purple belt
could understand the techniques, After a half hour rolling session Braulio
awarded stripes to some of the students,

Then he produced two brown Belts which he awarded to Rob Staples and Andrew Toporis (Topo), the first two BJJ Brown Belts in the Channel Islands.  (Braulio has only awarded 11 brown belts in the UK)

Then the whipping started, also Matt Norris was in for the whipping as
Braulio awarded him his purple belt at the BJJ Europeans.

Off to the airport to catch our flight to GSY only to find the flight had
been cancelled due to fog, unfortunately  this ment that the GSY seminar
didn’t go ahead.

Braulio will be returning to the Channel Islands in June ,date tbc

We do have pictures but I am just in the process of resizing them.  I will have them up some time today.

Cheers

For those of you in Jersey, Channel Islands over the weekend of Friday 6th through Sunday 8th March, please feel free to take the chance to train with Braulio Estima who will be visiting again.

Braulio is a multi World and European champion in both black belt weight category and black belt absolutes.

The schedul for the weekend is as follows although this is subject to change.

Friday evening 6th Feb will be a no-gi class and will probably be suited to more expeienced grapplers and not complete novices.

Saturday 7th March from 11:00am – 12:00pm will be the juniors class. Please try and make this if you are a junior or your child attends the junior classes. Braulio is an amazing instructor for children as well as adults and brings a lot of fun into the class.

Saturday 7th March 12:00pm (ish) – 2:30pm will be the adult classes.

Saturday after 2:30pm will be private lessons which need to be booked with Rob Staples in advance by email training@gracie-barra-channel-islands.com

Sunday, Braulio and Rob will be venturing over to Guernsey to train with Chris Goldborugh’s Guernsey students. This is still to be finalised but currently looks like this is going to happen.

Please make the effort to get to some of the training sessions being made available to you. As you may have seen by recent posts about the guys from the club who have done so well in recent competitions, the standard of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Jersey and Guensey is very high, and the fact that we have access to instructors such as Braulio Estima on a relatively regular basis keeps that high standard moving forward.

Thanks for reading and please feel free to elave a comment.

Hope to see you up at the club over the weekend.

Finally, to ensure that you are made aware of any changes to the schedule that may happen, please leave your name and email address in the boxes provided at the tope of the page. This will be the quickest way of notifying you.

Cheers

Mark your diaries for Friday 6th March, Saturday 7th March and Sunday 8th March.

As of yet, times and schedule are not finalised but will probably run in a similar fashion to past visits with Friday evening being No Gi/Gi class, Saturday being private lessons in the morning with a class in the afternoon and Sunday being a late morning/early afternoon training session.

For those of you who may be unaware, Braulio is still on top of his game and proved this once again recently by wiping the board at the European Championships in Lisbon by getting gold in both his weight category and the absolutes  for Black Belts.

It will be very hard to find a better fighter and instructor anywhere in the world at the moment and I strongly urge you to make sure you can make it to at least one of the sessions. 

Those dates again, Friday 6th, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th March.  Schedules will be posted later.

Till next time, see you on the mat.

One of the sections was a two part interview that Braulio gave which seems to have been filmed in 2007.

I am adding the videos to this site but you can also view them at http://www.woma.tv

I hope you find them very insightful.

Braulio Interview Part 1

Braulio Interview Part 2

See you on the mat