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The 3rd Southwest Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Classic will take place on October 22nd and 23rd at the Phoenix College (North Gym) located at 1202 W. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ 8013. Two tickets to the 2012 European Jiu-Jitsu Championship in Lisbon, Portugal, are on the line for the Adult Black Belt Division Open Light Weight (Under 167.5 lbs) and over Open Heavy Weight (Over 167.5 lbs).

The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition will offer kids, juveniles, Adult (Male and Female), Masters and Senior Divisions.

Full info available at http://www.strongvon.com/southwestbjj3/

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Tempe, Arizona, saw its fair share of action last weekend, when Gustavo Dantas’s Arizona Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu State Championship rolled into town. Three thousand dollars was up for grabs between the winners of the two black belt divisions, further upping the already scalding hot temperature in the region.

Among the big standouts was 2011 Pan-American champion Caio Terra (Gracie Fighter), who took the decision over Osvaldo Augusto “Queixinho” (Soul Fighters) in the light absolute decider. Now number one in the heavy absolute was Marcel Fortuna (Ralph Gracie), who overcame Brazilian champion Daniel Garcia (Nova União) in the grand finale.

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2011 Arizona State BJJ Championship. The competition will take place on June 25th and 26th at the Marcos De Niza High School located at 6000 S. Lakeshore Dr. Tempe, AZ 85283 . For the first time the event will be ran with 6 competition areas! We are expecting around 800 competitors! Click here for more info.

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Liam Thrun won the Nintendo Wii

April 23rd marked the 3rd installment of the Arizona BJJ Kids Cup. Gathering 260 competitors from all over Arizona, California, and Las Vegas in Mesa, AZ, it was a fun and competition filled day. The division drawing the most competition was the Male, White belt, Pre Teen, Rooter division with a staggering 15 competitors. Nathaniel Rae of Primero BJJ and Blake Mavity of Bambusa MMA both fought 3 matches before meeting in the finals, a task that would be challenging to even an adult competitor, with Nathaniel being the victor of the stacked division. 2 lucky kids had a chance to win either Nintendo Wii or Sony PS3 and Liam Thrun (GD Jiu-Jitsu) and Daylen Blau (Lopez Jiu-Jitsu) were excited to hear their numbers being called in the raffle. Liam , who won the Wii, had a great day as he also won gold in the 2nd largest division of the day, the Male, White belt, Kindergarten, Feather division with a total of 8 competitors, winning all his 3 matches by submission. Daylen won the PS3 and also did a great job in competition as he placed 3rd in the always tough Male, Orange belt, Teen, Middle division. It was tough competition between the teams in attendance, but after a back and forth battle between MMA Lab and GD Jiu-Jitsu, the Lab was able to pull away to secure the #1 spot on the podium with GD Jiu-Jitsu taking 2nd. The fight for 3rd and 4th was also very close with Siege MMA/Lotus Club coming up on top of Gracie Humaita. 5th place was secured by a new team as East West MMA made it to the Top 5 for the very first time with only 11 competitors.

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