I Caledonia BJJ Open

[meat]

Roberto Atalla and the Griphouse Gym would like to invite you to the very first BJJ Tournament to be held in Scotland.

I CALEDONIA BJJ OPEN

The event is being held at the Griphouse gym, 10 Possil Road, Glasgow G4 9SY on Saturday the 29th of September. Event starts @ 9:30 am.

Weight Categories are as follows: -
Mens White Belt & Blue Belt Divisions
-66kg
-73kg
-81kg
-90kg
90kg+

Womens Division
-60kg
60kg+

Medals manufactured by the same company that makes the IBJJF medals for the mundials are presented to the winner and runner up in each category.


Entry is £15 per competitor and online entry will be available shortly, watch this thread for more information or alternatively email me (admin@dinkyninjas.co.uk)

[c-money]

sweet, hopefully get a decent turnout for the white belt 66kg.

[meat]

Planning the same pre-tournament routine as the last sub league then Colin?

[underdog]

Nice one james, are the weight categories with the gi on just before you step on the mat?

cheers man

Robert

[Maccavelli]

will be awesome

medals are cool as fook.

[meat]

Nice one james, are the weight categories with the gi on just before you step on the mat?

cheers man

Robert

To be honest mate I am not sure, I'll ask Roberto and get back to you on it

[meat]

Weighin will be without gi @ the start of the event in the morning, same as we do for the sub league

[Atalla]

We will soon have a blog with all info.

People can enroll by leaving a comment there or emailing James.
Please include full name, sex, belt and weith division.

Rules will be standard BJJ without advantage scoring, only points.
We will have a rules meeting prior to the first match and after weighins, so is important to arrive early.

Medals are made in the same factory that makes all BJJ Official tournaments.

[piratebrido]

Who's James?

Is this the same person as meatmeatmeatmeat

[meat]

Who's James?

Is this the same person as meatmeatmeatmeat

Ahem there are rules about starting that on "Official" threads

[Atalla]

http://caledonianbjjopen.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/cartazglasgowblog.jpg

http://caledonianbjjopen.wordpress.com

[Maccavelli]

meat meat meat meat meat

[c-money]

Planning the same pre-tournament routine as the last sub league then Colin?

probably, awesome line-up for pressure the night before:

PRESSURE
Felix Da Housecat, Vitalic LIVE, Richie Hawtin, Troy Pierce, Master H and more tba.
10.30pm-4.30am | £ tbc

[meat]

Tournament is 5 weeks on Saturday

[meat]

Now only 4 weeks till the event, online registration is available @ http://caledonianbjjopen.wordpress.com

[Atalla]

3 weeks to go now!

[Atalla]

im arriving today with the medals!

Everyone is welcome to come to the griphouse and have a look at them.

None of the comps in UK had nicer medals than those.

Girls division will be merged to have a single womens division (all belts, all weights)

So we will have an open weight purple belt division for the guys.

[Darkne$s]

Lets get some results up in this bitch!

[Fitz]

Some pictures in a new thread as well please.

[meat]

Results will go up tomorrow night, no idea about pictures as I didn't take any

[Atalla]

I got only a few pictures, and will post them in my blog this week and upload here.

James has full results and will publish them soon.

We had 52 competitors in ten divisions, most winners had to fight 3 times to get the gold, the atmosphere was cordial and inviting, there were absolute no injuries, no complains about results, and the comp run ahead of schedule and at 3:20 we did the medal ceremony to end the comp.

I'm very happy with the outcome of this competition and looking forward to the next one, in 2008.

Certainly a forward move to BJJ in Scotland.

Cheers to everyone that helped doing this a brilliant day.

Special props to James Mc Intyre, Paul Mc Veigh, Guy Ramsal, Dr. Maeve Rodgers, Doug MacMaster, Steve Mainsy, Mark Curry and Cougar for all the work!

And special thanks to our students and friends in Glasgow, Ayr, Kilmarnock and Dunfermline that came forward to compete and support us, to Ricky Young and all the guys from Edinburgh (Including Polish and Russian), both teams from Aberdeen (AMAG and SBG), Bolton lads and the Irishman. This comp would not be the same without you. So hope 2 see everyone around for the II Caledonian BJJ Open, in 2008

Cheers

[c-money]

was good to watch, move of the day had to be the omoplata sweep by the skinny dude with the ginger beard....

[A.B Abacus]

There were a couple of folk filming the matches, hopefully a dvd will pop up coz I wanna see my first which didn't get filmed by the guys from my club

Was a really enjoyable day. Relaxed atmosphere, good nature between everyone and some great jits

[markcurry]

Hi guys, thanks to roberto for telling me about the tourney and letting me compete, it was great fun and really interesting to watch and compete with you guys.

I videoed both my matches, semi-final and final of the blue belt u73kg division:

Semi final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPcUmwDgwPE

Final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrq5eumCjI

Hurry up and post pics and results guys! I know lots of others were filming.