3rd Annual Glasgow BJJ Open

[meat]

Confirmed with the venue today that the 3rd Annual Glasgow BJJ Open will take place on the 25th of September at the Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena in Glasgow.

More details to come soon!

[dobbie]

very nice meatoplata!

[illegalhunter]

im in, like flynn

[gingerninja1967]

at last meat a competition when im not on holiday!!

[JonathanFrakes]

I really want to do this but my training is practically non existant while I move and if I don't find a decent club in Edinburgh I may have problems.

i'll definitely help out in some way though if I don't compete.

Much rather compete though.

[Willie-Scott]

I really want to do this but my training is practically non existant while I move and if I don't find a decent club in Edinburgh I may have problems

There is Rick Youngs in Leith or Cross Combat in Tollcross offering bjj

[sanchez]

I dare say us Cross Combat guys will be at attendance again. Classes are getting busy so hopefully more guys competing.

Willie we have a few bigger guys training at the moment. Would love to have you round mate.

[JonathanFrakes]

I really want to do this but my training is practically non existant while I move and if I don't find a decent club in Edinburgh I may have problems

There is Rick Youngs in Leith or Cross Combat in Tollcross offering bjj

Cheers mate, I'll track them down and resume my august training.

[meat]

You could always just get the transporter fixed

[JonathanFrakes]

You could always just get the transporter fixed

This looks like a job for JORDI LaFORGE!

http://www.lolblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/2enu8ag.jpg

[Willie-Scott]

Hearing lots of good things about cross combat and did very well at the grapplefit no-gi

[JonathanFrakes]

Hmm, Cross Combat ends with T.

[PieDog]

sweet, im in. This will be my first of many comps hopefully. win or lose it'll be a great experience.

[sanchez]

Cheers Willie, the classes are getting busier and busier with lots of really good grapplers. Gimme a shout if you're through our way Frakes. 6-10ish every night and 1-4pm on a sat, as well as lunch time classes 12ish til 2ish, I dont go then so cant say exact. Shameless plugging.

Meat is there any plans for a nogi in Scotland at any point?

[meat]

Cheers Willie, the classes are getting busier and busier with lots of really good grapplers. Gimme a shout if you're through our way Frakes. 6-10ish every night and 1-4pm on a sat, as well as lunch time classes 12ish til 2ish, I dont go then so cant say exact. Shameless plugging.

Meat is there any plans for a nogi in Scotland at any point?

Yep, probably towards the end of the year.

[JonathanFrakes]

Cheers Willie, the classes are getting busier and busier with lots of really good grapplers. Gimme a shout if you're through our way Frakes. 6-10ish every night and 1-4pm on a sat, as well as lunch time classes 12ish til 2ish, I dont go then so cant say exact. Shameless plugging.

Meat is there any plans for a nogi in Scotland at any point?

Will do my valiant friend. I should be able to start soon, once I find the damned place. :)

[sanchez]

Will do my valiant friend. I should be able to start soon, once I find the damned place. :)

Try this!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/Lawrie_g/ssecopy.jpg

[JonathanFrakes]

Try this!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/Lawrie_g/ssecopy.jpg

I'm sure we can locate it easily enough.

ENERGISE!

[meat]

Event website is now live

http://glasgowbjjopen2010.eventbrite.com/

[baby face]

Event website is now live

http://glasgowbjjopen2010.eventbrite.com/

Meat, have you guys got any artwork or an event poster yet as id like to showcase the open on our site if not we will work something out?

[meat]

Hey dude, not got one yet but will be sorting one out soon

[thaison]

might have to dust off the gi for this

[gingerninja1967]

oh my god meat, im a senior!!

[meat]

oh my god meat, im a senior!!

haha, old cunt :D

[gingerninja1967]

haha, old cunt :D

old and ginger..... time to hide the razorblades!

[Stalkachu]

Any chance of a fight at Brown Belt Lightish?

Take care,

Oli

[Allan Shrek]

I'll try and convince McVeigh to get involved. He'd be at Leve in the gi probably.

[Allan Shrek]

I'll try and convince McVeigh to get involved. He'd be at Leve in the gi probably.

[Maccavelli]

That could be an idea

[Danny@CBD]

Might come up for a laugh, best wash my gi

[meat]

As always if there is demand for a division we'll run it

[Danny@CBD]

As always if there is demand for a division we'll run it

Im a blind brown belt with no legs, will there be a division for me?

[meat]

hahaha, we'll see if anyone else with similar characteristics expresses an interest!

[staffie]

There's a blind guy that fights at blue belt, he's pretty good. Beat Ally and near caught Mark Conner with a flying armbar. :D

[Maccavelli]

if you wash the gi you take away the magic power

[Darkne$s]

Conversely, soiling it will make you more feared...

[Albino Assassin]

There's a blind guy that fights at blue belt, he's pretty good. Beat Ally and near caught Mark Conner with a flying armbar. :D

Mark connor never gets caught in submissions. He merely lulls you into a false sense of security and then punishes you for even thinking about trying to sub him

[FlyCatcher]

I really want to do this but my training is practically non existant while I move and if I don't find a decent club in Edinburgh I may have problems.

i'll definitely help out in some way though if I don't compete.

Much rather compete though.

You move out???
I should only thank you for making Glasgow better place to live now.
Oh... and please take all emotional attachments with you :p

[JonathanFrakes]

You move out???
I should only thank you for making Glasgow better place to live now.
Oh... and please take all emotional attachments with you :p

I wouldn't thank me yet, who knows what sort of bloody foreigners might move into my flat!? ;)

[FlyCatcher]

I wouldn't thank me yet, who knows what sort of bloody foreigners might move into my flat!? ;)

I shouldnt be bothered by any as long as they shave

[markjitsu]

There's a blind guy that fights at blue belt, he's pretty good. Beat Ally and near caught Mark Conner with a flying armbar. :D

vicious lie!
it wasn't even close and i just used it to pass;)

[JonathanFrakes]

I shouldnt be bothered by any as long as they shave

You fear the beard.

[FlyCatcher]

You fear the beard.

tickles crook of my elbow while going for RNC :p

[shaiz]

I've just started JJ at Griphouse but quite fancy getting into competitions sooner rather than latter. How do they work, are the divisions split by weight and belt (i.e. as someone that's ungraded would I only fight white belts in my weight category or is it all grades together just split by weight?). What's the standard like for white belts if it is split up, do most people train for ages before entering a comp? Lastly, I assume I'd need a gi? Any help appreciated!

[meat]

I've just started JJ at Griphouse but quite fancy getting into competitions sooner rather than latter. How do they work, are the divisions split by weight and belt (i.e. as someone that's ungraded would I only fight white belts in my weight category or is it all grades together just split by weight?). What's the standard like for white belts if it is split up, do most people train for ages before entering a comp? Lastly, I assume I'd need a gi? Any help appreciated!

Alright dude,
comps are split up by belt and weight, standard varies significantly as you can have some guys who have been training for a while but for whatever reason are still white belts or guys who are fairly new.

[shaiz]

Cool cool, I've done a fair bit of Judo (although not for years) so I'm not toally new to grappling sports but I guess in terms of JJ I'd be the least experienced fighter there. Screw it, worst that can happen is you loose but its got to be good experience plus it is a local event. I'll speak to a few people at GH over the next few weeks to see if they reckon its worth entering or too early. Cheer for the help!

[JonathanFrakes]

Cool cool, I've done a fair bit of Judo (although not for years) so I'm not toally new to grappling sports but I guess in terms of JJ I'd be the least experienced fighter there. Screw it, worst that can happen is you loose but its got to be good experience plus it is a local event. I'll speak to a few people at GH over the next few weeks to see if they reckon its worth entering or too early. Cheer for the help!

The technique classes at griphouse are excellent but sparring and competing are, to me, the best ways to really improve your skills. You pick things up in live rolling that you never notice when you're going light in the technique class.

At my first comp I was terrible but I learned an awful lot from it and got a bronze at my second one.

As long as you go into the comp with the right attitude, and you seem to be doing that, you'll have a great time, see some cracking matches and probably pick up a few ideas as well as meeting guys from different clubs with different perspectives on Jits.

This comp is very well organised and has attendees from Scotland and England attending. It's well worth giving it a go. If you don't feel comfortable competing, you should at least attend to get a feel for it. :)

[baby face]

Confirmed with the venue today that the 3rd Annual Glasgow BJJ Open will take place on the 25th of September at the Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena in Glasgow.

More details to come soon!

Have you got any advertising material for this yet? We'd happily replace our Royce Gracie Seminar advert with a Glasgow Open advert if you do? The Royce advert will be out of date from tomorrow so if you do have something then please PM me and we can work something out -free of charge of course as we want to support local events as much as possible.

We have a home page advert on the right hand side of the page on www.fullmount.co.uk and an article with all the details at http://www.fullmount.co.uk/index.php/mma-news/1-latest-news/530-royce-gracie-seminar-announced-for-24th-july-2010

Cheers.

[Darkne$s]

Have you got any advertising material for this yet? We'd happily replace our Royce Gracie Seminar advert with a Glasgow Open advert if you do? The Royce advert will be out of date from tomorrow so if you do have something then please PM me and we can work something out -free of charge of course as we want to support local events as much as possible.

We have a home page advert on the right hand side of the page on www.fullmount.co.uk and an article with all the details at http://www.fullmount.co.uk/index.php/mma-news/1-latest-news/530-royce-gracie-seminar-announced-for-24th-july-2010

Cheers.

nice site!

[DIAMONDBACK]

im going to try n get to this shouldnt be a problem really liked the 1st one missed the 2nd gutted. 1st 1 was my 1st bjj comp so would like to test myself at blue belt this time.

[AbsoluteCombat]

I'd imagine you'd do very well chris if your sub game in your mma fights is anything to go by.

ttt for more interest

[Black Mamba]

I would like to take a crack at this aswell.

[AbsoluteCombat]

likewise bobby.

Get involved

[meat]

likewise bobby.

Get involved

Guys reminder that registration for the event is open, you are guaranteed a minimum of 2 fights in your weight division. We will also have a full size warm-up area for all competitors and tiered seating for all spectators.

You can register online here http://glasgowbjjopen2010.eventbrite.com/

[meat]

Please note that the closing date for entries is Wednesday the 22nd of September, no entries will be accepted after this point and there will be strictly no entries on the day.
We are also doing a special reduced entry rate for female competitors to encourage more competitors, female entry will be at the reduced rate of £15 and we will also do our utmost to ensure as many matches as possible.

[meat]

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/8084/glasgowopen2010.jpg

[meat]

Just over 6 weeks to the event

[Wiegieboard]

Can't wait to spectate this.
The last one had some great matches.

[Allan Shrek]

Bump.

Get your entries in guys and let's see another Griphouse team trophy win!

[JonathanFrakes]

Meat, will you be needing me to work a table for this?

[meat]

Meat, will you be needing me to work a table for this?

I would certainly appreciate your valiant and august efforts in that regard

[JonathanFrakes]

In that case, I shall beam down to the evenT making the T at the end of that word even more prominenT.

[illegalhunter]

What about me meat iam not competing cause iam shite so i can fuck it up for you again for free.

[JonathanFrakes]

Yeah, let John organise brackets again!

[illegalhunter]

Meat says no lol

[JonathanFrakes]

I wonder why....

TTT, get your names down and take your chance to impress Frakes with your BJJ stylings.

[meat]

Guys thanks again for all those who supported the event, I couldnt have done it without you.

I have however come to a decision that the event on Saturday was the last I run for the time being. There are a number of factors in this decision but I feel I'm making the correct one. So thanks again to all those who have helped over the years in making the events the success they have been.

[JonathanFrakes]

That's a shame as there aren't many other BJJ tournaments in Scotland that I know of.

[Allan Shrek]

I'll take it off you until your return meat feast. Give me your file and I'm happy to run it while you're on sabbatical.

[meat]

Cheers Lovey, that would be great

[thebody]

Im up for running a bjj comp with u lovey if ur wanting to do 1 next year some time?? Could be awsum

[meat]

Just be prepared to make good use of the block facility on your email, I'm still getting hassle nearly a week later :-(
btw I dont count constructive critiscism as hassle, if you've offered that cheers

[JonathanFrakes]

Is it that guy with the video? :)