NEWS

Julllian Rives and Nathan Pace Bring Home Two Golds and One Silver at NAGA Fort Lauderdale 2007.

   Jullian Applying an Armbar

Jullian Rives started the day in the No-Gi Teen Beginner Division. He found himself facing a strong opposition. Nevertheless, the 16 year old submitted his three opponents by armbar to win the division! The referee walked up to Roberto Torralbas and said:

“Coach he has to do the intermediate division next time”

To which Roberto responded:

“You might not believe me, but he has only being doing BJJ for 3 moths and he has never done any wrestling, he actually is a musician.”

But Jullian had more to conquer as he jumped in the white belt division and won his two matches there a swell.

Jullian Controlling the Mount Position 

Celebration! 

Next up to bat was Nathan Pace. After wining his first match by a lot to nothing, he faced a giant who was over 6’ 5” and probably over 300 pounds. He found himself passing the half guard with a text book perfect baseball slide and the flipped over by his opponent. Regardless he fought really hard and was very close to upsetting a much stronger and experienced opponent. Nathan has also been only training for 3 months, but has missed at most two days of class. Congrats to him!

Nathan Seconds After Mounting His Opponent

Nathan After His First Win! 

Roberto had a tough match against 2000 Black Belt Mundials Silver Medalist Edson Diniz (Edson lost to BJ Penn in the 2000 Mundial Finals). The final score was 6-2 Edson. He then jumped in the Expert Adult Gi Division where he defeated a brown belt 5-0 and lost 2-0 to another brown belt from Team Papovitch.

Roberto Controlling Sidemount on Edson Diniz

Roberto Working the Double Under Pass 

 
Win or lose as long as you fight hard and grow you make us proud.

 Team Lloyd Irvin - Still #1

Team Lloyd Irvin also won the Team Tournament! A few rival schools were claiming that Team Lloyd Irvin was only winning the Team title at tournaments because of greater numbers. The promoters decided that they would hold divisions where each team would be limited to a single competitor, thus balancing the playing field. Well, Wilson Reis, Ryan Hall, Ken Berger, and Dave Carter proved the doubters wrong with Wilson and Ryan taking 1st place, Ken Berger 2nd, and Dave Carter 3rd.

We also won the Children’s Team Title and overall Team Title! Great job guys!

07-07-07 will always be remembered as the day THIRD LAW BJJ had its first  student win.  Julian Rives, 16 years old, fought really hard in his first competition at COPA AMERICA on 07-07-07. Despite being only 16 he opted to compete in the adult divisions for both Gi and No-Gi. Jullian who had been training for less than 2 months, but with great determination, found himself at a strength, age, experience, and technical disadvantage when facing the opposition.  After losing two of his first fights, and finding himself down on points on his third one, he put up a sequence of scores to pull of the FIRST WIN FOR THIRDLAW BJJ!

Jullian Applying an Armbar

 Jullian WINS!

Roberto Torralbas, won the Purple Belt Division and lost a very closed match 2 & adv to adv in the $1000 No-Gi Absolute.

Roberto Playing the Close Guard

Roberto Attempting to Pass