July 1, 2013 | BJJ Globetrotters

Globetrotters representing in Scotland

July 15, 2013/in Competition, News/by Christian Graugart

Congrats to Andrew MacDonald, Andrew Sill, Ellis Younger and Jonny Wilson on the great performance at Edinburgh BJJ Open!

Congratulations to all the newly promoted Globetrotters!

July 1, 2013/in Events, News/by Christian Graugart

At the BJJ Globetrotters summercamp, a bunch of well-deserved belts were given out. Lots of them to athletes from the local CSA.dk academy, but also quite many to participants of the camp and BJJ Globetrotters members coming in from all over the world. Congratulations to all of them!

BROWN
Jacob Guldbæk
Thomas Guldbæk
Christian Ifversen
Daniel Reid

PURPLE
Jonas Kabels
Haraldur Sigfusson
Kasper Lovin
Lars Roskær
Erik Forsberg
Carsten Schau Andersen
Carsten “Tim” Nielsen

BLUE
Søren Møller
Lars Pedersen
Guttormur Arsælsson
Kristian Bjerre-Nielsen
Frederik Bjørlie
Allan Gunnar Nielsen
Axel Apérgis
Salim Amini
Jesper Trillingsgaard
Amanda Sears
Asmus Moser
Bjartur Thomsen
Christian Frederiksen
Daniel Arensborg
Max Lensvelt
Tim Vuong
Niels Smed
Christian Klingenberg
Yahya Ali
Lars Kabels
Andreas Bahnsen
Nikolay Starodubtsev
Alexandra Bezborodova
Sebastian Studirach
Raf Voza
Ellis Younger
Andrew Sill
Vladimir “Polarbear” Uhlmann
Michael Krause
Konstantin Burdonov
Sergey Volkov
Lise-Lotte Madsen
Gundars Lion
Lars-Olov Larsson
Magnus Larsson
Emil Larsson
Marqus Olofsson
Graeme Hendy
Simen Raudstein

Danish Carsten Schau Andersen reports from trip to Chicago

July 1, 2013/in News, Travels/by Christian Graugart

Work sent me to Chicago which gave me the opportunity to train there. With the help of Christian Graugart I managed to find two gym to train in. Valko BJJ and Force Jiu-Jitsu.

Valko BJJ was very difficult to find, but I was lucky to ask one of the members for direction. He showed me around the gym and introduced me to Jay, the gym owner. We did some warm up drills and practiced some techniques. I picked up a few good details, which I’ve been working on since. The sparring was very nice. I sparred with some talented guys and girls.

Later that week I also joined a Judo class at Valko BJJ. I had a really good time there. I was throwing people around while they played Nephew – again and again and… (Danish band) on the radio. The timing was perfect. ;)

The other gym I wanted to try out was in the suburb of Chicago. It was not possible for me to go there by public transportation. Tristan, a black belt from the gym, picked me up at my hotel. That was very nice of him and made it possible for me to train with Force Jiu-Jitsu.

Here we started with a warm-up and some guard and take-down drills. Then we repeated some techniques they had practices for some time. Again I’ve brought home a few details, which I am still working on to implement in my game. The last part of the training was the sparring and I almost managed to roll with every one. Tristan pulled a very nice submission, which I’ve been using at every training back home ;)