List of Blue and Purple Belts of our Team in California.

Blue Belts:

Don Daniels, Eddie Parra, Eddie Sullivan, Efrain Huerta, Gabriel Amezcua, Jason Gates, Jose Romero, John Dillon, Josh Hernandez, Kevin Pesic, Mike Morales, Mikey Azer, Mychal Clark, Ruben Romero and Vance Franklin.

 

Purple Belts:

Jacob Prieto, Kevin Velarde and Scott Jensen.

Paulo Guillobel Seminar at Pedro Soriano BJJ Club

On August 22nd my coach and good friend, World Champion, Paulo Guillobel will be teaching at our School here in San Pedro, CA.

Beginner, intermediate and advanced techinques will be taught as well as competition style techniques.

Everyone is welcome!

Prices are $30 Adults and $20 kids.

@ 1pm the doors will be open and @ 130pm seminar will start.

See ya on the mat!

MMA class video from San Pedro, CA

Sparring match between uncle vs nephew. Robbie ‘McLovin’ Romero fights his uncle Ruben Romero in a exciting “friendly” mma sparring session. Our Thursday night classes are full of action, good techniques and good laughters! Lol..

I hope you enjoy!

More videos from our students here in California and a friendly roll at the new school.

Here are two matches that happened about 4 or 5 months ago. I just thought i ‘d share these images with you, so the family throughout the world is up to date with what is happening on the West Coast of the USA.

I hope you enjoy!

Robert Romero ‘Robbie’, 14, orange belt. Caique’s In House Tournament – Mar. 09

 

Randy Briseno, 20, white belt – competition debut. Caique’s In House Tournament – Mar. 09

 

Pedro Soriano and Eddie Sullivan on a fun and friendly roll at the new Rio Grappling Club – California Head Quarters. Located now at 235 N Gaffey St, San Pedro, CA 90731 USA.

 

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Videos from 6th South Bay Open 2009. Torrance, CA

Hi Familia!

As i had promissed here goes some of the matches from the 6th Annual South Bay Open of BJJ, held at Torrance High School on July 11th and 12th, 2009.

Robert Romero, 14, Orange Belt: 

 

Cole Turner, 9, Yellow Belt:

 

Soon i will post some more! Enjoy……..

Leave a comment about our performance! Thank you….

6th South Bay Open of BJJ

Hi everyone!…….. I am so sorry for not having posted anything lately but due to crazy relocation times we did not have all that time to post anything really…

Anyways, it is time for good news! Our RGC team here in Southern California represented us very well this past weekend. (july 11th and 12th). On Saturday the kids and juniors were a total of seven fighters and we scored 5 medals, on the next day was the adults white belt day to represent our team with four more fighters and scoring 3 more medals. It was a great overall result! Our team was made of very unexperienced fighters for the most part and even though they did an outstanding  job!

The Team and results:

Cole Turner (9) – yellow belt – 1st place. Outstanding dominance in all three matches!
Chris de Reza (10) – white belt – 2nd place
Noah Prieto (9) – white belt – 3rd place
Anthony Garcia, Jr (6) – white belt
Aaron Brice, Jr (10) – white belt
Robbie Romero (14) – orange belt – 3rd place
Eddie Parra (16) – blue belt – 3rd place

Michael Azer (18) – white belt/super feather – 2nd place ( his original weight class is rooster )
Randy Briseno (20) – white belt/light – 2nd place ( quickest submission on the division – 28″ ‘americana’ )
Carlos Perez (26) – white belt/heavy
Tim O’Donnell (30) – white belt/heavy – 2nd place

The videos for this event will be upload soon!
Thanks for the team and for such an effort!

12th Annual Copa Pacifica

The RGC USA was represented this past weekend by 11 athletes in Huntington Beach, California.

The Team ended up scoring only 4 medals this time, although everybody did well showing lots of heart!

Here are the results:

White belt – juvenile – light weight:

1. Eddie Parra

Orange belt – 13 to 15 yrs old:

2. Robbie Romero

Blue belt – adult – Unlimited 214lbs +

2. Kevin Pesic

Purple belt – adult – feather weight:

2. Kevin Velarde

Eddie Parra – 1st place.

HighLights Robbi R.

Enjoy it!

Videos from 1st Teens and Kids BJJ World Championships 2008

 

As i had promissed here are the videos with the matches of our teammates that represnted us in the Kids World Championships, held in Riverside, California – last November. The first video is our young talent Cole Turner, 8, in his bjj tournament debut…. not bad for a young kid… enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Vwb8MYwbY

Here is Robert Romero in a outstanding “fire” performance…

Rio Grappling Club USA – 2008 performance videos.

Hi, Family!

After a long time i finally learned how to post the videos here on our blog and that means everything that happens on this side of the globe, you guys are going to have it in first hand so you can follow up our USA Rio Grappling Club results from close.

I would like to specially thank Kevin Pesic and Robert Romero for the outstanding performances in the year of 2008. Also I’d like to thank Roberto Atalla, old coach and long time friend for the technical and friendly support, that helps me to keep this blog up and going. Enjoy the videos!

US Gracie Nationals. Feb 2008 – Los Angeles, CA.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYKqqgS-BE

North American BJJ Championships Sep 2008 – Redondo Beach, CA