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The boys and Girls in Auckland are hosting this years Will / Machado BJJNZ nationals.

Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010
Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm
Location: AUT, North Shore Campus
Street: 90 Akoranga Drive
City/Town: Northcote, New Zealand

Download the NZ Nationals Poster A4 >>
View the Competition Rules >>

Online entries have now closed!
There have been over 150 competitors registered! Including 11 Females and 26 Kids making this the biggest Will / Machado Gathering in NZ history and one of the biggest BJJ competitions in New Zealand.

A facebook event page has been set up for all information and news:
Facebook Event Page Nationals 2010

Here is all the info from the facebook page. We look forward to seeing all Will / Machado BJJ Students there!!

Early Bird Entry Fee, before 5th July
$40.00, includes free competition t-shirt

After 6th July $40.00 entry fee plus $20.00 for competition t-shirt

Online entries at http://strongvon.com/willmachado2010

Weigh In 9:30am

ENTRIES CLOSE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY 23rd JULY

* You must be a member of a Will/Machado affiliated academy to compete

DIVISIONS

WHITE BELT - 5 minutes
63KG
68KG
73KG
78KG
83KG
88KG
93KG
98KG
+98KG

BLUE BELT – 6 minutes
63KG
68KG
73KG
78KG
83KG
88KG
93KG
98KG
+98KG

PURPLE BELT – 7 minutes
80KG
+80KG

BROWN BELT – 8 minutes
Open

FEMALE:

WHITE BELT – 5 minutes
65KG
+65KG

BLUE-PURPLE BELT – 6 minutes
Open

2KG allowance for Gi

NB: Divisions are subject to entries, there may be an adjustment in weight split to make for better competition pools

Competition Rules

SCORING SYSTEM

2 points
Sweep, Knee Ride, Takedown

3 points
Guard pass

4 Points
Mount
Back Control

Advantage
(to decide in case of draw)

Penalties
1 penalty -1 advantage
2 penalties -2 points
3 penalties disqualification

RULES
The following is NOT ALLOWED:
· Slam from the guard
· Biceps lock
· Cervical lock (of any kind)
· Frontal neck crank
· Scissors takedown
· Heel hook
· Sideways knee lock
· Pulling backwards to take the back (over the feet)

In addition to the above, the following is NOT ALLOWED for WHITE & BLUE belts:
· Wrist lock
· Calf lock
· Mata Leao with foot

In addition to the above, the following is NOT ALLOWED for WHITE belts only:
· Straight leg lock

John Will returned to GSW in Lower Hutt for another round of BJJ Seminars. Once again due to numbers the seminars were split into two sessions.
White Belts and Coloured Belts.

The White Belt session was attended by 40 BJJ Students from GSW and Submission Martial Arts in Whitby. John covered a bunch of Immediate Action techniques in a seminar that he called a Vaccination Seminar.

Basically John covered answers to several of the problem areas that he sees beginners getting caught in during their first months of BJJ training. Things that John covered were, Crossover Guard defence, Side Control Escape (Hip in Pocket), Switchbase escape, Elbow Escape from Mount, Side Mount Escape, 1/2 Guard pass, Head to Head (Sit-out) and Front Choke Escape.

At the end of the White Belts session 4 New Blues were Presented 1 from Glen’s Submission Martial Arts and 3 from GSW. Conrats to Melvin, Kym and Kelvin

The Coloured Belts session covered getting the back and was attended by 30 of GSW’s Blue and Purple Belts. John had given us some great chokes at the last seminar and this time he went into several ways of gaining and controlling the back using several vital principals involving leverage and weight placement.

As always Johns seminar left everyone with something to take away and think about, as well as many things that instantly fitted into peoples grappling. Johns next session will be November 24th..

Our next seminar at GSW is with Richard Norton one of John Will’s training partners and multiple Black Belt, including his BJJ Black Belt from Jean Jacques Machado. Richard has starred in dozens of movies, with many top Martial Arts Movie Stars. Richard has also travelled the world as personal protection to performance artists. Richard bio can be found at his site www.richardnorton.net/blog

Richard will be running BJJ Seminars at GSW Lower Hutt on the 3rd of July 2010. Each seminar will be $50 and last 2 hours. Jump onto the GSW facebook page to register your interest as places are strictly limited and filling fast.
Wellington Saturday 3rd July 2010
BJJ Seminar White Belts 1pm – 3pm $50
BJJ Seminar coloured Belts 3.30pm-5.30pm $50

Wellington Sunday 4th July 2010
MMA / Street Defence Seminar (for Zen Do Kai Students)
Sunday 4th July
9am – 11am
$50

John Will returned to Wellington this month and there were a couple of new things this time around.

Firstly we held the seminars in our own facility in Lower Hutt. With the Wellington Dojo fire earlier this month and the smaller mat area I decided that running the sessions in the Hutt would be a better option. This also gave us the chance to start at a much earlier time slot. But with the mat size I also split the session into White Belts followed by Coloured Belts.

So at 6.30pm with a few stragglers still coming through the door John kicked off his first session of 2010 and his first ever session at GSW Lower Hutt. there were 30 White Belts on the mat including 7 from Submission Porirua. Glens club is going through the same sort of expansive growth as we are at GSW and The Submission guys are starting to fight for mat space. An awesome achievement for Glen and a positive boost for BJJ students in Wellington.

John covered some basic concepts for recovering the guard, then a few ways to pass the guard followed by a few was to escape when you guard has been passed. He then put the whole thing together as a drill for everyone to cement the concepts of guard recovery into their heads.

After a quick break there was a change of tack with John covering a couple of concepts for attacking and maintaining and attacking the back. He then made everyone go through the guard recovery drill at a slower more flowing pace and swapping partners..

The White Belt session ended with 3 Blue Belt promotions. Glen awarded Submission Martial Arts first Porirua Blue Belt to Andrew Douglas and I promoted two GSW students to Blue as well. Congrats to Jeffery Alcaraz and Haydn Parker. After a quick Photo shoot the White Belts cleared the mat and the Coloured Belts took over. There were 30 Blue and Purple Belts in the advanced session and John and I took the opportunity to promote a couple of Blues to Purple.

Congrats to Phil Stenhouse and Brad Kora! BJJ Purple Belt is a significant step up and one that is not easily earned or awarded, so well done. I know the East Coast BJJ crew will be particularly stoked with Brads promotion. We hear nothing but good things about Brad and his boys in Whakatane.

John the got straight into the session covering advanced concepts around the Kata Gatame position, including, maintaining and fine-tuning the position, finishes and entires to the position. A great session and 4 hours of hard work for John. After a few quick photos everyone split and John and I got home a good hour earlier than normal. This morning I’ve seen John off on a flight to Christchurch to meet up with his ol’ buddy Ron for a fishing trip in the Wanaka area. Ron accompanied John and Melissa on Johns very first seminar trip to Wellington in 1999!

So all up there were over 60 people attending this seminar round and I’m sure that when John returns in June we’ll have to take advanced bookings as the GSW classes grow and as Glens school requires more and more spaces on the mat for Johns seminars. Look for big things in 2010 as this is GSW’s 10th year as a BJJ school!

On April the 11th TCMA in Napier will be hosting the Will/Machado BJJ National competition.
The comp is a friendly get together for all Will / Machado BJJ NZ clubs and is a fantastic way to catch up with old friends and make plenty of new ones.
The comp is only open to those clubs that train under John Will as it is officially an “in house” comp.
Below are links to pdf files with all the current information, including posters, entry forms and rules.

More info will be added as it becomes available, but for now mark Easter Saturday (April 11th) on your calendar and start preparing.

Will Machado BJJ NZ Nationals
Easter Saturday April 11th 2009
Hosted by TCMA, held at,
Tamatea Intermediate School Hall
Freyburg Ave
Tamatea
Napier

Weigh in: 9:00am
Entry fee:$35.00

John is returning to New Zealand in November and will run sessions at the following clubs

Friday November 23rd – Martial Arts Christchurch: Geoff Aitken
Saturday November 24th – Martial Arts Auckland: Mike Fooks & Glen Tarrant
Sunday November 25th – Auckland: Karl Norton and Steve Cockell
Sunday November 25th – Martial Arts Hamilton: Phil Beale
Monday November 26h – Martial Arts Napier: Shane Cox
Tuesday November 27th – Wellington: NZ Police College
Wed November 28th – Martial Arts Wellington: Geoff Grant

John also plans to have copies of his book “Rogue Black Belt: Fear & the engine” available for purchase. If you can’t wait then please order a copy now from his website www.rogueblackbelt.com

Well, we are 9 days out from the Australian Nationals and the Hawkes Bay Team are getting edgy. Preparations are being made and bags being packed.

There’s 5 of us going…

Shayne Cox Under 90kg Purple (YES UNDER 90)
Damian Smith Under 70kg Purple
Dan Digby Under 80kg Blue
Kelly Nissen Under 70kg Blue womens
Shane Chapmen Under 70kg novice

John and Melissa run one of the best tournaments I have ever participated in. Smooth, timely and exciting for the spectators. His wife Melissa is the background lady doing all the preparation work and keeps it together. We’re expecting another great one.

The trainings been done, we’re ready to roll.

When we come back, I’ll post details of how everyone performed. Hopefully with some details from every one from NZ not just HB>

Anyway take care.

The date for this years Will / Machado Nationals in Australia has been set and already there are several groups heading over from New Zealand. If any Will / Machado BJJNZ students are keen to compete in the national competition in Australia in September please talk to your instructor now as time is quickly running out. Below are details and information for the competition.

Special guest is Rigan Machado. Rigan will be running seminars on the day after the competition as well as reffing and overseeing the competition day. Don’t pass up the opportunity to train with one of the famed Machado Brothers and a man John Will calls a ‘BJJ Encyclopaedia’

2007 Will / Machado Nationals.
Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Center -
Albert Park
Melbourne
Australia
Saturday September 8th
Competition starts: 9 AM kids – 11 AM adults

• 2007 Nationals Poster >>
• 2007 Competition Waiver >>
• 2007 Competition entry form >>

June 2 saw women’s combat sport in NZ take a huge step forward with the Primetime Events Australasian Knockouts.

It comprised of an 8 Women kickboxing tournament and, for the first time in NZ a women’s MMA event – also with 8 fightes in knockout format. Also on show was a knockdown karate bout and 3 Combat Submission Fights.

The women’s kickboxing was a veritible who’s who of of the sport in NZ and delivered up plenty of fast paced action with some very close fights. And none closer that the final which went to a split decision, the nod going in favour of ETK fighter Michelle “Pressure” Preston.

In the MMA, all competitors were participating for the first time in Mixed Martial Arts and showed a tremendous amount of courage doing so. The standard was high with knockouts and submissions before a pumped up crowd at the Waitakere Trust Stadium. Eventually the crown went to a very sharp looking Fiona Muxlow of Renshinkai (Will/Machado) who submitted all of her opponents.

There was a showing from the Will/Machado Auckland crew, with Mike Fooks and Glen Tarrant taking on officiating duties in the CSF and MMA. In addition an award was given to the fighter with the greatest heart, to commemorate the memory of Primetime competitor and Will/Machado blue belt Keiji Okamoto who died tragically in a car accident last year. Keiji was a model of what we expect a martial artist to be, determined, gentle, friendly and full of heart. The award could have in all honesty gone to any of the fighters on the night, but in the end a decision had to be made and it went to Sue Glassey for her gutsy performance against two very talented grapplers in Rebecca Attwood and Fiona Muxlow.

From a local level the MMA event saw GroundControl 2 striper Diane Skudder enter her first MMA match. Diane did extremely well and should be proud of herself. She dominated the first round against a much taller fighter, taking side control and then eventually mount and with a very close armbar attempt. In the second round she received a very well placed knee to the midsection which took her wind and she eventually succumbed to the ground and pound while fighting for her breath to return. A strong effort which her clubmates at both GroundControl and Integrated Fighting can be proud of.

All in all a great night out for all – congrats to Belinda Dunne and Melodie McDonald for putting on a very successful show.

Full results for the night:

Kickboxing round 1

Leighan Banham v Karen Coutts, Leighan by Decision

Anna Sisson v Paula Davidson, Anna by Decision

Angela Bennet v Michelle Preston, Michelle by Decision

Natahsa Bevan v Bronwyn Wylie, Bronwyn by decision in extra round

MMA round 1

Diane Skudder v Peta Radnidge, Peta by ref stoppage in the second
Shona Minns v Carla Mayer, Carla by ko in the first

Rebecca Attwood v Sue Glassy, Sue by ref stoppage in second round

Fiona Muxlow v Justine , Fiona by armbar in 2nd round

Kickboxing round 2

Leighan Banham v Anna Sisson, Leighan by Decision

Michelle Preston v Bronwyn Wylie, Michelle by Decision

MMA Round 2

Peta Radnidge v Carla Mayer, Carla by ref stoppage in 1st round

Fiona Muxlow v Sue Glassey, Fiona by armbar

CSF

Alex Scott V Kinya Hashimoto, Alex Scott by 4 submissions -0

Neil Swailes V Satoshi Koutani, Satoshi by takedown in overtime

Tabitha Avery V Kate, Tabitha by submission

Kickboxing Finals

Leighan Banham v Michelle Preston, Michelle by decision

MMA Finals

Fiona Muxlow v Carla Mayer, Fiona rear choke

John is returning to New Zealand for a round of seminars in April.

NEW ZEALAND

CHRISTCHURCH
Geoff Aitken – April 20th

AUCKLAND:
Glenn Tarrant – April 21st
Michael Fooks – April 21st
Karl Norton – April 22nd

NAPIER:
Shane Cox – April 23rd

WELLINGTON:
Police Academy – April 24th
Diplomatic Protection Squad – April 24th
Geoff Grant – April 25th