Renato Magno Featured in Black Belt Magazine

Renato was recently featured in Black Belt magazine for their feature regarding 25 years of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

In addtion to some great jiu jitsu instructionals provided by Renato, the feature includes wisdom amassed over the last 25 years from jiu jitsu greats like Renato, Rickson Gracie, Fabio Santos and Helio Gracie.



Bonus video of Renato tossing around Black Belt editor

Mike Chun wins at NAGA Hawaiin Open

Mike Chun was already a man not to be messed with when he walked into the doors of Street Sports Jiu Jitsu, not long after he became a feared grappler. And now, a samurai?!?!

Apparently that's the award bestowed upon you if you win your weight class at the NAGA Hawaiin Open as Mike did this past weekend. Way to go, Mike! Leave the sword at home when you come to train though...

Grapplers Quest - Long Beach

Mike Chun and Hugh Fitgerald recently competed at Grappler's Quest in Long Beach on October 10th, 2009 and I'm happy to announce some great results for both of them. Hugh took home first place and Mike took home 3rd. Way to go, guys!

Hugh Fitzgerald

Mike Chun

2009 US National Jiu Jitsu Championships Photos and Videos

Thanks to John Lamonica for the photographs. Outstanding as always. A few are from aliciaphotos.com as well.

2009 US National Jiu Jitsu Championships Results

Congratulations to all the Street Sports team members that competed at the 2009 US National Jiu Jitsu Championships held on Sept 12th & 13th at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Full Street Sports Result List

Roberto Zeinum - Blue Belt
Competed

Anthony Genova - Purple Belt
Competed

Daniel Rodriguez - Brown Belt
Bronze Medal - Middle Weight (Loss by DQ due to illegal leg lock)
Bronze Medal - Open Class

John Rickel - Black Belt
Competed

Raphael Carrao - Black Belt
Silver Medal - Middle Weight

Adriano Camolese - Black Belt
Gold Medal - Super Heavy Weight
Silver Medal - Open Class

Mike Chun Wins at Grappler's Quest

Congrats to Mike Chun (Street Sports Jiu Jitsu Blue Belt) who won his division recently at Grappler's quest in Las Vegas at UFC 100. Mike also was awarded a silver medal for his efforts in the open weight division.

MMA Outlet to Sponsor Street Sports Jiu Jitsu

We are pleased to announce that MMAOutlet.com is now sponsoring Street Sports Jiu Jitsu. Going forward, up to 10% of all purchases made at MMAOutlet.com will come back to Street Sports Jiu Jitsu.

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Gabriel Vella at Street Sports Photos

Some great photos of Gabriel Vella's time at Street Sports by John Lamonica. Gabriel received a sponsorship for the 2009 Mundials from John via his NY Pizza business.

Thanks you John for supporting the sport! And congrats again on being crowned world champion, Gabriel.

Congrats to Gabriel Vella - World Champion!

Gabriel Vella stopped by to train with Renato Magno and the Street Sports team before the 2009 jiu jitsu mundials.

Congrats to Gabriel for winning GOLD in the ultra heavyweight category for his 2nd world championship!

Below are some videos of the techniques we went over.

Mount Escape Drill


Spider Guard Pass


Spider Guard Pass to Collar Choke Combo

Grappler's Quest National Championships in Las Vegas

Congrats to Dr. Charles Martone for bringing home another medal at the Grappler's Quest National Championships in Las Vegas!

Charlie (supported by his lovely wife Catarina) won bronze at the event.

Charlie stressing out over the brackets.

"Hey does this make it hard to concentrate when I do this?"

2009 Pan Jiu Jitsu Championships Day 3

Sunday was a great day for Street Sports at the Pan Americans as we delivered a variety of great performances.

Starting off the day, Daniel Rodriguez steamrolled the Brown Belt middle weight division and captured the gold medal! Winning every match by submission (with the exception for the first on points), Daniel proved he is a force to be reckoned with at brown belt now. Congratulations, Daniel!

Kane Tsay also brought home a medal at Brown Belt! Competing at lightweight, Seniors 1, Kane managed to fight off some very tough opposition in his first tournament as a brown belt to bring home the bronze. Way to go, Kane!

Ending the day on Sunday, John Rickel competed in the black belt absolutes. John fought 3 time world champ Fabio Leopoldo and took him to the end of the time period, and finally losing by points. Congrats to John for a valiant effort against a very seasoned black belt!

Daniel Rodriguez

Kane Tsay

John Rickel