Winners Walk of Hope September 7, 2008
Bravado BJJ tournament September 13, 2008
August 16, 2008, Success @ Pennsylvania Open
Four brave members of Toronto BJJ braved hail and the winding interstate to compete.
White Belt 221+ Silver
Blue Belt 167.5 Bronze
Blue Belt 181 Bronze
Purple Belt 221+ Gold
August 2, 2008, Success @ NAGA BBTB
We participated in NAGA's Battle by the Beach. With nearly 2000 competitors the NAGA events rival Grapplers Quest in terms of size. Toronto BJJ entered 3 competitors this long weekend, turning up a Gold and Bronze medal in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu divisions. This included our Purple Belt defeating a Black Belt in the final.
July 3-5, Jorge & Xande BJJ Belt Promotions
Congratulations to all of those promoted by Jorge and Xande!!!
We now have one more Brown belt, 3 more Purple Belts, a bunch more Blue Belts & Green belts, not to mention our teens. Well done!!!
June 28-29, 2008, Grapplers Quest Copa Atlantica
In one of North America's largest tournaments we entered 6 competitors and took home 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. Showing the great success that all Toronto BJJ students enjoy, we medalled across the spectrum, with our
women, men, and teens all reaching the podium. We medalled at white belt, blue belt, and purple belt.
June 20, 2008, Toronto BJJ wins again in MMA
At KOTC in Montreal, Toronto BJJ enjoyed its seventh straight mixed martial arts victory, with a 2nd round tko in the 155 pound division.
June 8, 2008, Xande #1 in the World
Congratulations are in order for one of our teachers, who won the greatest prize in competitve Jiu-Jitsu when he won the Absolute division of this year's World Championship of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
April 5-6, 2008, NAGA worlds
In one of the largest tournaments in the world, Toronto BJJers continued the trend racking up six golds, three silver, and three bronze medals. We train as a team and a family and the results are shared by all.
Congrats are in order to Saulo Ribeiro student Morango for his impressive 1st round win this weekend in Elite XC.
March 28-30 Pan-Am games success again!!!
Toronto BJJ once again had a successful campaign at the 2nd most prestigious Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in the world. Six adventurous TBJJer's gave it there all. We once again showed that we are a team and a family. Big thanks to the Saulo Ribeiro family for welcoming us with open arms into their family, coaching, hospitality, and cool after party. It was great to hang out with so many legends of the sport.
The following is a list of our best placings
this year:
Women's White belt- Gold
Mens S1 Blue belt- Bronze
Mens Blue belt- Quarterfinalist
Mens Purple belt- Quarterfinalist
February 9, 2008, Success Again!!!
This past Saturday February 9th Toronto BJJ continued it run of great success in both BJJ and MMA competition. We competed successfully in the Ascension tournament with many medals including at least 7 gold. In Mixed Martial Arts competition we racked up another victory by way of 2nd round TKO. That makes it 5 straight MMA wins for us since November. Thanks to everybody for training, and coming out to support. We train as a team and a family, and the results are shared by all!!!
February 2008, Thanks Xande
Reigning World Champion Xande Ribeiro taught a great week of classes. Thank you Xande it was awesome!!!
January 2008, Thanks Saulo
World renowned champion and instructor
Saulo Ribeiro taught this past week at Toronto BJJ. Saulo's attention to detail and teaching BJJ based on principles rather than moves, made this a fantastic week of learning. We were honoured to have the Einstein of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu show us the way. Saulo will be back soon, so train hard!!!
December 3 , 2007, Spirit Fighting Championship
This time we had only one competitor making his MMA debut in the 155 pound category. He won via unanimous decision after completely dominating all three rounds. Once again our cheering section dominated the event. Thanks to everyone for their great training and support.
November 10 & 11, 2007, Joslins Canadian Open Adult Team Champions
We did it yet again. In Canada's largest tournament for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Submission Wrestling we took home the Adult team title. Also a huge congrats to our youngest competitor who took home silver in the 11-12 year old girls category.
You may have noticed that we leave out the names of the competitors when giving a recap of our
tournament results. This is a conscious decision to emphasize the team work that every competitor has benefited from. We train as a team and a family, and the results are shared by all.
Here is a list of our placings:
- Girls 11-12 - Silver
- Womens Beginner Gi 115 - Silver
- Womens Beginner Gi 145 - Gold
- Womens Beginner Gi over 145 - Bronze
- Womens Beginner No-Gi 145 - Gold
- Women's Beginner No-Gi over 145 - Silver
- Women's Beginner No-Gi over 145 - 4th
- Mens Beginner No-Gi 170 - Gold
- Mens Beginner No-Gi 170 - Bronze
- Mens Beginner Gi over 225 - Silver
- Mens Intermediate Gi 140 - Bronze
- Mens Intermediate Gi 140 - 4th
- Mens Intermediate Gi 170 - Gold
- Mens Intermediate Gi 170 - Silver
- Mens intermediate Gi 170 - Bronze
- Mens intermediate Gi 170 - 4th
- Mens intermediate Gi 185 - 4th
- Mens intermediate Gi 205 - Gold
- Mens intermediate Gi over 225 - Silver
- Mens intermediate No-Gi 140 - Bronze
- Mens intermediate No-Gi 205 - 4th
November 3, 2007, Rumble on the Rez
Rumble on the Rez our MMA debut under Mauricio Veio, who assumed the leadership of our MMA program in May 2007. We had three fighters compete in this mixed martial arts event, and all came through with victories. Our cheering section of just over 100 strong sounded like 1,000. Thanks to everyone for training like a team and a family, and coming out to support.
You may have noticed that we leave out the names of the competitors when giving a recap of our results. This is a conscious decision to emphasize the team work that every competitor has benefited from. We train as a team and a family, and the results are shared by all.
- 145 - Winner via Sub at 0:23 of the 1st round
- 170 - Winner via TKO at 2:59 of the 2nd round
- 185 - Winner via TKO at 3:01 of the 1st round
Four brave members of Toronto BJJ went to Long Beach California to compete for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu's ultimate prize. The 2007 tournament was the largest World Championship ever held. the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) really out did itself this time. With all the top competitors such as Roger Gracie, Xande Ribiero, Saulo Ribeiro, Margarida, Andre Galvao, Robert Drysdale on the mats, it made for an incredible event. With legends like Renzo and Rickson Gracie looking on here is how we did:
- Blue Belt Juvenile Medio - Quarterfinalist
- Blue Belt Galo - Lost 1st round to eventual World Champion
- Blue Belt Leve - Lost 2nd round, submitted opponent in the 1st round
- Purple Belt Pesadissimo - Quarterfinalist
- Purple Belt Absolute - Lost in 3rd round (recieved byes in rounds 1 and 2)
Three members of Toronto BJJ went and competed at Naga's Ohio event. Naga is a very popular grappling tournament circuit in America. The three amigos competed with the following medal results:
- 140 Beg Masters N0-GI Gold
- 140 White Belt Masters GI Silver
- 140 White Belt GI Bronze
- 160 Novice N0-GI Gold
- 170 Blue Belt Silver
June 23, 2007, Ontario Grand Prix Final
Unfortunatley for us many of our competitors who were top ranked in their respective category throughout the year were unable to compete. However we still manged to turn in a great performance.
- Teens over 155 - Silver
- Mens Beginner 170 - Gold
- Mens Beginner 170 - Bronze
- Mens Beginner 185 - Gold
- Mens Beginner 205 - 4th
- Mens Beginner over 225 - Silver
- Mens Intermediate 170 - Silver
- Men's open - Gold
- Men's open - Silver
- Men's open - Bronze
- Men's open - 4th
June 2, 2007, West End Rumble
In the third and final Ontario Grand Prix Qualifier we took home our 2nd straight BJJ tournament team title.
May 21, 2007, Chute Boxe era begins in Canada
Toronto BJJ has become the exclusive representative in Canada for the Chute Boxe team. Chute Boxe is known through out the Mixed Martial Arts world for helping produce many of today’s top stars. Including the present UFC World Middle Weight Champion. Chute Boxe has designed a system of Muay Thai Kick-Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). The Chute Boxe system of Muay Thai is the most fun, dynamic, and effective Muay Thai system available today. Mauricio Veio has come from the Chute Boxe academy in Curtiba Brazil, to teach us the Chute Boxe Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts style. You will be amazed by how good the classes are. The reason that Chute Boxe is so good, is that their style is effective and fun to train. Therefore, you get a great workout, without realizing how hard you are training. The workouts are tremendous, the technique unparalleled, and the excitement contagious. Welcome to the Chute Boxe era!
April 4, 2007, Pan-am & Wrestlefest results
Toronto BJJ competition team wins Wrestlefest and brings home medals from Pan-Ams
We did it!!! We suceeded in winning locally and internationally. Locally, we took home the Brazilain Jiu-Jitsu team title at Wrestlefest. This was the second leg of the Ontario Grand Prix. The individual results are still pouring in. We will post them as soon as we have them. Once again many of the outstanding performances came from guys who had not medalled previously. We continue to win with our team as a family approach. Our success stems not just from those who compete on tournament day, but everyone who comes to class to train. On the international side we did somehting unprecedented in the history of the BJJ in Toronto. We took home two medals from the Pan-American games, the world's second most prestigious tournament. Once again we are proud of everyone who trains here, as these results are shared by all.
January 27, 2007, Ascension Open
Toronto BJJ continues to blaze a trail of tournament Success. This past Saturday at the Ascension Open the first leg of the Ontario Grand Prix, a tough group of Toronto BJJ members made it out to Scarborough to compete. We won a ton of matches, over two thirds of which were by submission. Following on the heels of our impressive
performance at the Joslins Canadian Open, we took home 5 Gold, 7 Silver, and 6 Bronze medals. What makes this even more impressive, is that only 3 of our medalists today, were repeat medalists from Joslins. This is further proof that our positive training environment, and team as a family philosophy breeds great results. Our team is not made up of a few stars, but instead tremendous depth,
camaraderie, and effort. A special thanks not only to everyone who competed, but to all of the Toronto BJJ members, friends and family who came to cheer everyone on. We train as a team and a family, and the results are shared by all!
Pictures are HERE
Below is a break down of our medal placing:
- Teens Gi under 160 - Gold
- Teens Gi over 160 - Silver
- Teens Gi over 160 - Bronze
- Men Beginner Gi 140 - Bronze
- Men Beginner Gi 170 - Silver
- Men Beginner Gi 185 - Silver
- Men Beginner Gi 225 - Bronze
- Men Beginner Gi Over 225 -Gold
- Men Beginner Gi over 225 - Silver
- Men intermediate Gi 170 - Gold
- Men intermediate Gi 170 - Bronze
- Men Advanced Gi 140 - Silver
- Teens No-Gi under 160 - Bronze
- Teens No-Gi over 160 - Gold
- Men Beginner No-gi 170- Silver
- Men Beginner No-Gi 205 - Bronze
- Men Beginner No-Gi over 225 - Gold
- Men intermediate No-Gi 155 - Silver
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