Pronounced (cal-vin-uh-lee-bru)

What’s up peeps, last week, two of the students from the No Limits MMA school headed out to handle some business at a Jiu Jitsu tournament in Carson. When I say handle business, that’s exactly what I mean. I go up against these cats at least 3 times a week, so I feel the pain of their opponents. Needless to say, I’m very proud of their performances, Mario and Christian came out by themselves and represented for No Limits. I’m glad I was there to capture the moments.

I’d be wrong not to mention the athleticism displayed by some of the other students who participated. These boys definitely came with their A game. I hope you enjoy the photos below. For those of you that seen me running around like a mad man taking pictures, you can download them by clicking on the links below. The images have been compressed in zip files. I do pla on having a much better download process in the future but for now you’ll have to click the links to download the flicks. Drop a comment to let me know what you think. I’ll be headed out to Long Beach later on today to shoot another tournament, I hope to see some of you there.

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Good afternoon everyone. I decided to write a blog post a little later than usual mainly because I’ve been extremely busy all day. Back in March, I wrote a post about My First Steps regarding my experiences with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Well, unlike most hobbies I get into, I actually kept at it and was recently honored with a couple of stripes on my belt. My belt still lacks color but I think that will change after a few more months of dedicated hard work on the mat. I’ll leave you with an image of my belt (don’t laugh either) and a technique video tutorial by the one and only BJ Penn.

What’s up everyone, those of you that know me know that I’m an overly active individual, I just like doing “things”. I think it might have something to do with my moms “you can do anything” attitude. Back in August or September, I joined a gym out here in Southern California called No Limits Mixed Martial Arts. It’s the largest gym I’ve worked out in (roughly 70,000 square feet). They have three rings, two cages, a whole bunch of bags, an upstairs for yoga, lots and lots of room for wrestling mats, and a full weight room. Yeah, it’s pretty big.

When I joined, my goal was to get into BJJ but I heard the training was pretty tough and that I should consider some cardio kickboxing. I did that for a couple of months to strengthen myself up and increase my endurance then decided to start up the BJJ classes. The first class I took was insane, as a matter of fact, if I think about that day really hard, I’ll probably pass out. It was a no gi class (since it was my first class, I didn’t know the difference) I was tired, out of breath, and as much as I lift weights, NONE of my muscles were working, it was a nightmare.

As beat up as I was, I managed to wriggle back the next morning to take the gi class. That class started off a little slower paced but I learned a lot of useful things. Once the lessons/techniques were covered, we went live and again, toward the end of class, it felt like an elephant landed on top of me and took a nap. Do you know what it feels like to have an elephant take a nap on top of you? The next day, I squirmed to the next class, limping and aching, and repeated the process. After class was over, I felt like I was gonna pass out again HOWEVER, I didn’t feel like that until after class, progress baby! I’m three weeks into it and I plan to update you all often.

Here are a few birds eye visuals of my practice grounds.

Photos courtesy of No Limits MMA