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Team Third Law BJJ of Naples, FL was at it again. This time we took four competitors to another Copa America Tournament: Orlando Castillo, Joey Ruggiero, Kim Rivers and Kevin Dalton.

Orlando Castillo will be the revelation of the day. 5 matches, 5 Victories , two gold medals. Orlando has been training less than six months and keeps improving at alarming speeds!

Kim Rivers also took one gold in the gi division defeating a blue belt as a Whitebelt. Congrats to Kim on the accomplishment!

Kevin Dalton won the No-Gi Intermediate division! A good performance for the Coach Dalton.

Joey Ruggiero would end up getting 3rd in the Gi. More description of the matches coming in soon.

Mike Fowler and JT Torres Close the Tokyo Open Black Belt Absolute Division

Well the Tokyo Open has come and gone.  At the end of the day both Mike Fowler and JT “Spiderman” Torres took the GOLD in their black belt brazilian jiu jitsu divisions.  The guys have been having very challenging brazilian jiu jitsu training and it’s paying off.

Although it’s the off season, right now they are out trying to get as much experience as possible.  Blue Belt competition team member Frank “The Crank” Camacho won his division to bring home the GOLD also.

Being all the way in Japan, both Mike and JT jumped into the Black Belt Absolute division, after some grueling matches, one of which saw JT battling a HUGE GIANT in a battle of a life time, in the end JT prevailed!

Both Mike and JT made it to the finals of the open division, as normal they flipped a coin and JT won the coin toss to receive the GOLD. At the Miami open Fowler won the coin toss.

Everyone needs to get into the gym and work on your technque during this next phase of training.

Go Team Lloyd Irvin

This past Saturday, November 21, 2009 Team Third BJJ of Naples FL, participated in the NAGA FLORIDA GRAPPLING CHAMPIOSNHIP at Boca Raton, FL.

In a day full of activity and crazy moments Team Third BJJ of Naples FL had a total of 25 wins and 13 losses for a total of 35 matches and a 68% win ratio. We are currently planning of starting a system for keeping team statistics, as we all know measuring is a key tool for success. The team took also 7 Medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze).

The day started with Kim Rivers, submitting her first opponent within 30 seconds as the video below illustrates. Kim ended up taking silver in the beginner division and gold in the white belt division, after a very controversial ending. Kim Rivers ahs had a total of 7 matches and a record of 6-1 with 4 submissions!

Joey Ruggiero did a great job of keeping his pace and control and ended up submitting 3, out of 4 opponents for the win.

Chris Ocampo took silver after a very tough match in the finals. Keep your eyes open for him as he has been training hard and is sure to take the divisions by storm pretty soon.
John Dysert also did an amazing job. Defeating some important rivals and achieving bronze in the intermediate division and winning the adult blue belt division.
Orlando Castillo has only been training 5 months and there where talks that he was already a blue belt. Crazy Talk that’s for sure but it didn’t help he submitted his first two opponents fairly quick. Orlando went 4-1 for the day and took bronze, but was close to finish his semifinal match until he was stalled out by his opponent.

Kevin Dalton had a very good performance dropping down from masters to adult blue and intermediate division Kevin won 2 matches and lost two close matches!

Saturday November 14, 2009. Right after the Miami International Open Team Third Law BJJ of Naples, FL already had some hungry students ready to go into battle. Joey Ruggiero and Jake Huffman decided to take a quick trip to Lakeland, FL
The day started with Jake Huffman winning the teens division. Jake is only 15 but he is built like an adult, really strong and explosive, so the teen division was an ease, and Jake won both the Gi and No-Gi Divisions at White belt for teens. Then he jumped into the adults division where he ended up taking silver in the Beginner No-Gi and Gold in the White Belt division. Congrats to Jake in this achievement. Jake had around 10 total matches on this day!
Joey Ruggiero would end up getting Second Place in the No-Gi Beginner Division with 3 fights total. Right after that Joey jumped in the Absolute Gi - Division where he won his first match and then lost to the champion of the division who had both size and strength as an advantage over Joey
The next tournament coming up will be The NAGA FLORIDA GRAPPLING CHAMPIOSNHIP (Saturday November 21, 20009)
Go TEAM THIRD LAW BJJ of Naples, FL!

Make Sure you see how pale we are before we jump:

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Roberto Torralbas repeated as American Nationals Champion, but this time at Middleweight (he had won it last year at Middle-heavy).  Roberto submitted his first opponent with a choke from the back and then entered the finals with an Ankle pick take down.  In the finals, Roberto was on fire and submitted his opponent with an arm bar halfway through the match.

Andre Arata Had a very tough and strong opponent in his frist match. Andre Pulled Open Guard and transition to close guard. Where his opponent mainly held on strong to  Andre’s Belt . After 2 minutes with very little action Andre proceeded t play open guard but his opponent like a Tree wouldn’t move. The match went to referee’s decision in favor of his opponent.

JT Torres

Mike Fowler

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