The Berimbolo Kid's Match of the Week - Week 4 - JT Torres vs. Caio Terra - 2010 Southwest BJJ Classic

(Last week’s edition can be found HERE) This week’s match is JT Torres vs. Caio Terra from the 2010 Southwest BJJ Classic. This is an excellent match between two of the best guard players around. When this fight happened I was honestly surprised by the finish, beforehand I thought it was going to be a completely one sided fight.  Caio Terra has one of the best guard...

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Update (28/07/14) - Where Have You Been?

An update post on a Monday? Yeah, I know I usually reserve my update posts for Tuesday's but I thought it was necessary to do one today, in order to tell you guys what happened last week. Well, last week my parents went on holiday and by default I was kind of on holiday as well. Obviously, since I was on 'holiday' it was nearly impossible to keep up to date with what I had planned and I hate to put out any posts which are halfhearted. Some of you may not think it, but it does take...

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10 Years of BJJ - My Jiu-Jitsu Journey - Part 10 (I Give Up!)

(This is part 10 of this series. If you haven't seen part 9 it can be found HERE.) So... I medalled in my first BJJ comp! Talk about ecstatic, I was on a high for a few days after the competition had finished. It was moments like this where I realised maybe I could be good at Jiu-Jitsu. Even though in the past few previous competitions I had my ass handed to me, and I looked like I had never spent an hour on the mats, for some reason on that day I was a different person....

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Update (15/07/14) - Saviour Tea Review, Whipping in BJJ, The Berimbolo & 80,000 Views!

This update post is going to rather short, for no other reason than I don't have a lot to say. But before I get into what I want to talk about today, I first want to apologise for not doing my 'Match of the Week' yesterday. Something came up and I didn't have time to write it, so for that I am very sorry. Anyway, it has been published today and can be found here. I plan on writing a lot this week, and plan to post something every day of this week. However, I've said that on many occasions...

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The Berimbolo Kid's Match of the Week - Week 3 - Otavio Sousa vs. Josh Barnett - California Classic 2009

(Last week’s edition can be found HERE) This week’s match is Otavio Sousa vs. Josh Barnett from the 2009 California Classic. Yes, you did here that correctly, I said Josh Barnett! And just to make it a little bit more surreal, this match takes place in the Gi. The finish may also be a surprise for you; I know it definitely was for me.    For those of you who don't...

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Update (08/07/14) - My 50th Post, Road to 100K, Blogging for Gracie Barra, Edwin Najmi, and A Review of Saviour Sports Tea

It’s been a pretty successful week! Yesterday was my 50th post on my blog and it has been a journey to say the least. It took me a while to get noticed and to attract readers to my blog but I think over the last six months I have achieved quite a lot. I still have a lot more I want to achieve with this blog but my main goal was always to get 100,000 views in a year. Well, I'm a few hundred views short of 80,000 and I think I can get to 100,000 by September. My posts over the last...

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The Berimbolo Kid's Match of the Week - Week 2 - Keenan Cornelius vs. AJ Agazarm - Pan Ams 2011

(Last week’s edition can be found HERE) Before I get into this week’s match, I would first like to say thank you for all the support I received on last week’s match. I'm glad many of you enjoyed it and hopefully I introduced you guys to something new and to fighters who perhaps you never seen or heard of before. Now that's out of the way, we can now get onto today's match. Today's...

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10 Years of BJJ - My Jiu-Jitsu Journey - Part 9 (Braulio's Competition Part 2)

(This is part 9 of this series. If you haven't seen part 8 it can be found here.) Okay, so I get called to fight. Now, I am feeling really confident. The match starts and within 20 seconds I get a standing guillotine, but Victor Estima, who was the referee, stops the match and gives me a warning, as it was a neck crank. Really, I had no idea that was illegal, as I didn't fully know the rules. So...

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The Berimbolo Kid's Match of the Week - Week 1 - Michael Liera Jr vs. Jacob Sandoval - Jiu-Jitsu Battle 1

Welcome guys to the first installment in my match of the week series! This series is actually going to take place every Monday, so I guess you could call it Match of the Week Mondays, but I'm not. The only reason I'm doing the first part today is just to get the ball rolling. Every Monday following today, a post will be made. So, every week I'm going to share with you guys a BJJ match which I like and hopefully you guys will too. I'm going to try and avoid 'classic' matches as...

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Update (01/07/14) - The Return of The Berimbolo Kid

I'm back! Man, it felt so good to say that. I can safely now say I am back to my blogging duties and I am happy to bring you lots of exciting new content over the next couple of months. So… Where have you been? Well, in my last post I said that I would be going on hiatus for a while due to college work, since it was the end of the year and I needed to finish and get my work up to standard to be able to get the grades necessary for university. Thankfully, I can say I have finished...

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