Thursday Night Beginners Class

Today's beginner's class opened up with some fundamental self-defense.

To start the technique, Bart grabs Jacare from behind. Jacare immediately protects his neck, squats down to lower his base so Bart can't pull him backwards

Jacare puts his chin to his chest and throws Bart over his head

Note: Jacare keeps his balance and doesn't fall on top of Bart and maintains control of the arm after the throw is complete

To finish Jacare places his knee on Bart's stomach

And starts dropping bombs! (An armbar would of worked but I guess he was pissed at Bart)

NoGi Pan-Ams

Tracy was nice enough to get us some more NoGi Pan-Am pictures.

Lutador

Alliance won the Lutador again! Congrats to Chris Moriarty and Jonathan Tooker splitting the win in the Heavy Weight Pro Division, Alec and Jordan splitting the win in the purple belt absolute, and Jeff winning the bluebelt absolute. Other then the pro and absolute divisions we had many people win their divisions. Congratulations to all the competitors!

Friday Lunch Class

Today Jacare was in a "MMAish" mood and it was reflected in our warmups:





This was followed by Cobrinha showing a variation of the guillotine:

- Darren shoots the double leg on Cobrinha, who begins to sprawl.








- Cobrinha reaches underneeth with his right hand.








- Cobrinha secures his grips.








- Cobrinha shifts his left elbow over the back and his right hand stays underneeth the chin.







- Cobrinha continues the movement.








- Cobrihna finishes the move.









A video of the move:

Thursday Night Class Recap

Tonight's class we continued our theme of attacking the Turtle. Tonight's technique is the Clock Choke


To start the technique DJ shoots in and Cobrinha sprawls. (Note: When Cobrinha sprawls he uses his left arm to cross face). Cobrinha immediately moves around to DJ's back.






From here Cobrinha can take DJ's back but Cobrinha also has the option to look for the submission. Cobrinha reaches inside DJ's far collar with his left hand and controls DJ's arm with his right








Cobrinha pulls DJ's arm inside and puts his head to the floor







To apply pressure to the choke Cobrinha begins to walk around DJ's head

Thursday Lunch Class

Today we started with a way to take the back off of a attempted takedown:



Cobrinha followed with another variation of taking the back off of a shot:

- Jordan shot in and Cobrinha spins a little to the back.








- Jordan pushes to his left, and Cobrinha switches his hips.








- Cobrinha prepares to move his hips.








- Continuing preparations.

















- Continuing the hip movement.








- Cobrinha is about to take the back.








- Cobrinha gets the hooks.








- And finishes with his hooks and a seatbelt grip.









A video of the move:

New Gracie Mags in Stock

New Gracie Mags arrived today, let me know if you want a copy

Best Self-Defence vid ever!

More Gi Pictures

Here are some more pictures of our new Gis. Remember they come with belts, and if you buy one today I promise it will improve your Jiu-Jitsu by 73% !!!!

NoGi PanAms

So as of right now it looks like Jordan Schultz got first and Tracy Conner got third, congrats guys! Also winning was Lucas Lepri and Stephen Hall, Alliance instructors from affiliate locations, congratulations everyone!

Rafael Dos Santos:

Stephen Hall:

Lucas Lepri:

New GI's in Stock

Jacare just brought in a new shipment of GIs that I know a lot of you have been waiting for. They come with a belt and the Alliance patches already sown on. These GI's are priced to sell at $120 and won't last so please let us know if you want one

Congratulations! Jordan Schultz

Congratulations to Jordan Schultz on winning the NOGI PaAms at purple belt! We are waiting for some event pictures, so we had to scour the Alliance Archives for a photo.

Greeting for Alliance UK

I just received a message a message from Lee Brown, the head of Alliance in the UK. They had a fund raiser were they had to climb 3 mountains in 24 hours. The pic is of the guys at the summit of Ben Nevis in Scotland (The highest mountain in the UK)

Congratz on reaching your goal guys!

Beginner Class Recap

In tonight's beginners class we started out with some self defense warm ups, where we got to take out some frustrations with up kicks. The technique we focused on today was a sweep from the Open Guard.



Nina is standing in Jenifer's Open Guard








To set up the sweep, Jen switches her grip. She passes Nina's right sleeve to her right hand and grapes Nina's ankle with her left.







To sweep, Jen hooks her right foot behind Nina's left foot (The lower the better), and pushes Nina backwards with her left foot.







Jen keeps control of Nina's sleeve and uses Nina's momentum to bring herself on top







Once she comes on top Jen secures the half guard

Thursday Lunch Class

Today we started with throws for warm ups:



This was followed by a way to take someone's back off of a well defended armbar:

- Cobrinha dislikes Darren, so he decided to break Darren's arm. In order to do this Cobrinha is pulling up and rolls to his right shoulder.






- Darren says "Screw you I am strong!" and tries to do a sit up.








- As Darren tries to sit up Cobrinha says "There is a reason I am a world champion son! Respect!" And then swings his leg down and around, allowing Darren to continue his stupid idea, the sit up.






- Darren sat all the way up. Cobrinha says "EPIC FAIL!" and takes his back.







- Cobrinha completes the Ezeikiel from the rear. Darren is choked all the way out, and Cobrinha takes Darren's lunch money.








A video of the move:

Alliance Seminar in Florida

Romero "Jacare" Cavalcanti Seminar in Tallahassee

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the legendary 6th Degree Black Belt Jacare Cavalcanti, Head coach of the four times World Champion Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Team, and Felipe Neto, leader of the Alliance Tallahassee Team.

Date: 10/03/2009—Saturday

Time: 12:00PM—3:00PM

Alliance Jiu Jitsu of Tallahassee
2418 N. Monroe St. #150
Tallahassee, FL 32303

Contact person: (850) 422-7730 Felipe Neto zicro2002@hotmail

Monday Lunch Class

Today we started with the legendary Jacare Yoga warm ups:



This was followed by a half-guard sweep:

Friday Lunch Class

Today we started with Jacare explaining different theories on stand up grappling:



This was followed by Jacare teaching a double leg takedown:



Then we went into a quick guillotine: