Picking up the intensity

With a fresh wave of guests arriving this morning training intensity has definitely increased. Training today focused on retaining the mount and finishing from this dominant position.

After a technical beginning, Jacare upped the intensity with high speed group training, constantly throwing fresh opponents at the "lucky" guy in the middle. This blitzkrieg style never lets you breath and pushes the pace through the exercise.

 A little friendly rivalry is good for training. Ian and Gabriel have been fighting head to head this whole camp and are looking to tear through the competition in California!

Mundial Camp In Full Swing

With the Mundials coming up in a little over a week Jacare open our doors to anyone looking to compete or just get in some advanced training.

Our classes are being led by 7th degree black belt Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti, 5x World Champion Lucas Lepri and the very experienced black belt competitor Gabriel Goulart, who has won pretty much every major title in the purple and brown belt.

  Everyday we have been focusing our training on a specific theme that we are expecting to encounter at the Mundials. At this point the hard work has been done and our guys are looking to fine tune their competition strategy.

Our success in in competition over the years has proven that with detailed instruction and specific training, our guys will get the results that they deserve after all their hard work and dedication.

What really works in tournaments?

High percentage techniques in Jiu-Jitsu looking at statistics

Source: http://bishopbjj.com/ these guys did a series of excellent articles where they desconstructed the 2012 Pan Am. This is the result of their research.

We analysed what were the most successful techniques from the 2012 Pan Ams black belt matches. The numbers speak for themselves:

Kid Peligro Jiu-Jitsu News - Alliance Headquarters is booming

Alliance Headquarters is booming

The new Alliance headquarters is booming. Alliance leader Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti has been on a mission since the opening of his new and massive Alliance HQ with classes for the military in addition to all their normal activities such as beginners, kids and advanced classes. As usual "Jacare" always looks to ave the best around him as he has World champion Lucas Lepri is the main assistant there. 
This upcoming week Alliance conducts their intermediate module for instructors, Romero always wants to make sure everyone in the Alliance system is on the same page and that the teaching is consistent no matter where you train.
"Jacare" states: "The new school is booming with a total area of 1. acres and 9000 square feet of building! We have a 5000 square feet main matted area and 1500 square feet of office space along with 2 spaces for private classes. We still have some construction going on as we are always improving and adding kick-boxing, MMA, cardio kick-boxing and functional training. Lucas (Lepri) has been doing an excellent job here helping me out with the HQ. I can tell you that he is one of the best athletes and instructors of our entire team!"

 
Jacare at Alliance HQ with military team

 
Jacare with his future Champions

Now go train Jiu-Jitsu
Kid  Peligro

Kid Peligro Jiu-Jitsu News: Alliance getting ready for the Worlds

2012-04-11 — Kid Peligro

Romero "Jacare" and Fabio Gurgel hoist the Pan 2012 team trophy - Photo Romero's personal archives

In surfing Kelly Slater is the undisputed best ever Champion with 11 titles, in BJJ Alliance team is looking to make a similar statement. The Pan is not even cold yet and Alliance team is already preparing for the Worlds. Alliance leader Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti is already rallying his troops to be ready for another team Gold. Even as he takes care of his new academy Romero is on the move:
"We are running at full speed, the new academy is growing with lots of new students and we have a full schedule with 4 to 5 classes a day and new programs such as "fundamentals and intermediate". Everything is going great here, however we haven't lost sight of another goal, the Worlds.
I am very happy with our performance at the Pan and the quality of our team. We won the adult male and female and came in second on master/senior and juvenile. We had 250 athletes competing in that event and now we are going full bore towards the Worlds. Our team is already training hard to achieve that goal. "
There you have it, Alliance Eagle doesn't sleep. The big question is who will be able to stop or even slow down the juggernaut

Pan Champs 3 Years In A Row!

After our training camp in Atlanta, Jacare flew out early to California for the Black Belt bracket drawings. While there, he was able to drop in and teach a class at Cobrinha's academy. With over 50 students in attendance, this has become our team's launching pad for the major tournaments on the west coast. 

The event itself was no easy task, as defending champions we had everyone gunning for us. Our coaches worked diligently all weekend giving our fighters guidance. With Jacare, Fabio, Marcelo and many others floating around we were in good hands! From the opening day we were able to get a step ahead of the competition and our higher belts weren't going to let that slip away.  

After the black belts finished on Sunday Jacare and Fabio found themselves in that familiar spot on top of the podium. Alliance is crowned the Pan Champions for the third consecutive year!

Alliance HQ has always been a dominant force at these events and score lots of points for the team. Congratulations to all of our guys who fought so hard these last few months and competed like champions at the event!

 Special thanks to all of the training partners who push our competitors day in and day out. You are the reason we are champions!

2 New Blues at DefKon 1

Pan Championship Final Results - Bringing home allot of hardware!

Pan 2012: Resultado equipes adulto

1 - Alliance
2 - Check Mat
3 - Gracie Barra

Partial Results from IBJJF

Academy Results

ADULT: 

1 - Alliance - 40
2 - Team Lloyd Irvin - 38
3 - Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu - 22

NOVICE:

1 - Gracie Barra - 38
2 - Nova União - 25
3 - Cleber Jiu Jitsu - 25

JUVENILE:

MASTER AND SENIORS:

1 - Gracie Barra - 65
2 - Alliance - 52
3 - Roberto Traven BJJ - 37

FEMALE: 


1 - Alliance - 43
2 - Team Lloyd Irvin - 22
3 - Gracie Humaita - 19

Pan Schedule for Sunday

Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship Schedule/Cronograma para as lutas do Pan de Jiu Jitsu.

Sunday - 01/Abr/2012

9:00 AM 

Brown Adult Male - Rooster to Feather
... Black Adult Male - Rooster to Feather

10:35 AM 

Brown Adult Male - Light
Brown Adult Female
Black Adult Male - Light and Middle

12:35 PM 

Brown Adult Male - Middle
Black Adult Male - Medium Heavy to Super Heavy

2:00 PM 

Brown Adult Male Medium Heavy to Ultra Heavy
Black Adult Male - Ultra Heavy
Black Adult Female

3:45 PM 

Brown Adult Female - Open Class
Black Belt Finals
Brown Adult Male - Open Class

http://www.ibjjf.org/cronopan2012.htm

New Purple Belt

I'd never want to say that there is a bad day to get promoted, but if I had my choice it wouldn't be on the day that we don't have 50 students in from out of town for a training camp.

Either way congratulations to Lindsey Clyburn for this awesome achievement!

Camp Training - Omaplata set up from Closed Guard

Nothing but the best instruction available for our students. I'd like to thank Jacare, Lucas and Gabriel for putting on a great camp and getting everyone sharp for the upcoming tournament!

Day 1 of Pan Camp!

We had a packed house for the firs night of the Pan Camp. We welcomed guests from Brazil and all over the US. We had guys in from Wisconsin, South Carolina, Michigan, Texas and Hawaii.

Lucas and Jacare are in charge with Gabriel Goulart as a guest instructor.
We started the training with situationals based on the techniques shown in class.

Marcio "Pe De Pano" Cruz visits Alliance HQ

Kids Class taking shape

Kids training with Jacare and Lucas 

Technique of the day!

Congrats Alliance Albany

Alliance Saratoga made our competition debut yesterday at NAGA Albany. We left with 5 golds (w/2 expert devision belts), 3 silvers and 2 bronzes! Three of those golds were in the white belt division by students with less than 6 months of training. A clear testament to the power of the Alliance Fundamentals system!


- Jesse Bruchac