mundials

[sprint]

ok, so who is going to this?

its kinda funny cause the Brazilians have to qualify in order to compete at this while everybody else can just enter at will.

[Stalkachu]

I'm supposed to be. Flights booked and all, just gotta see how things go in the meantime. Fingers crossed, and all. ^_^

What division you fighting in?

Take care,

Stalks

[sprint]

im pesado but i want to see if i can make the meio-pesado class

[KempoFist]

ok, so who is going to this?

its kinda funny cause the Brazilians have to qualify in order to compete at this while everybody else can just enter at will.

Really? Maybe there's just too many damned Brasilians?

[sprint]

Really? Maybe there's just too many damned Brasilians?


after all, the martial art is called bold brazilian /bold jiu jitsu

[Stalkachu]

I think eventually they plan to bring in qualifiers for other parts of the world, so the Europeans would be qualifiers for the Worlds, the Pan-pacifics, and so on and so forth. It's just not practical to expect guys to fly to Brazil (say) so that they can fight a qualifier for the Mundials. So I think in the next five or ten years they'll globalise properly and things will get sorted. So I'm making the most of the time we have now. ^_-

Take care,

Stalks

[sprint]

so what weight class are you fighting in pikachu?

[Stalkachu]

Either featherweight or lightweight blue. Hopefully featherweight, but it's quite a lot of weight to cut. -_- Gonna test out and see if I can make 70 no-gi for the FILA trials, and then try and cut down that extra kilo and a half to make 70 in a gi. Fingers crossed. @_@

...diets suck. -_-

Take care,

Stalks

[sprint]

yeah dude. its gonna be awesome.

[sprint]

so excluding me and pikachu, none of you are going to do this?

i mean its the tournament of tournaments. the most prestigious bjj tournament that ever existed. :Angel:

[sprint]

u scared?

yeah YOU.

[Stalkachu]

You do realize the event is gonna be absolute anarchy, right? They want to do the entire white belt division and some of the blue belt in the same day, for crying out loud. We're gonna be there from 9 am until about midnight every day. No kidding. @_@

Still, my hardcore weight cutting regime is paying off, and I'm on target to lose the three kilos that will cut me to featherweight, so I think it only appropriate I make my featherweight debut at the mundials. W00t! (Particularly when I started competing at middleweight. @_@)

[sprint]

hmmm... i didn't even know there was a white belt division.

i thought it was blue on thursday, purple on friday, brown and saturday and... black belts on sunday

i have to lose weight also. im scared that i might get disqualified for being too heavy

[ka1]

when is the date for this and im routing mainly for robert dysdale of brasa

[spirez]

Not sure on the exact date but i know the 3 main instructors from my place are going to compete in the last 2 weeks of August so pretty soon!

[Stalkachu]

23rd - 27th August. Long Beach, California.

If memory serves. Then again, I'm going there, so I might have to check up beforehand. ^_^

Take care,

Stalks

[Gufbal1981]

My instructor is going. I might just go and watch. I'm still toooo new.

[spirez]

Bit more info

http://www.ibjjf.org/mundial2007registration.htm

[Davey Bones]

I wish I were closer, ought to be some great matches and I'd pay to be a spectator. But at my experience level, I'm not paying that kind of money to travel, register, stay in a hotel, and miss a couple of muy importante court appearances on behalf of clients just to get my butt kicked in round one.

Maybe next year :p

[Gufbal1981]

I wish I were closer, ought to be some great matches and I'd pay to be a spectator. But at my experience level, I'm not paying that kind of money to travel, register, stay in a hotel, and miss a couple of muy importante court appearances on behalf of clients just to get my butt kicked in round one.

Maybe next year :p

If you come out here, you can stay in my guest room! That way you don't have to pay for a hotel room.

[Ghost Frog]

Have they got a white belt division in it now then?

[spirez]

No, starts at blue belt

Adults

The division is open for everyone.

Fight time:

> bluebelts - 6 minutes;
> purplebelts - 7 minutes
> brownbelts - 8 minutes
> blackbelts -10 minutes

[spirez]

Woo! Stephen Martin, winner of juvenile blue lightweight is from my club! Congrats mate.

Will be rooting for Otavio Sousa too in the brown belt category, not sure which weight though? He's been teaching us for the last 9 months.

Not sure if Victor Estima is competing? He was injured but he's listed in the athletes list on the site

There was a white belt division though, although it wasn't listed on the site.