Twisted Fitness

What a great Seminar this weekend.  We worked a lot of cutting edge technique with Deep Half guard and Single leg X-Guard, some really great competition techniques.  The seminar was packed and everyone learned a lot.  Thanks as always to Jacare for being such a great instructor and helping us so much.  Congratulations to Hana Maciolek and Mark Roth for receiving their Blue Belts.  And a big congrats to our friend Chris Gordon who received his brown belt.  Nice job everyone!

Congrats To Drian  for winning both his Expert No Gi and Gi Divisons at NAGA Chiacgo Today.  There is big things in this guys future.  We are all very proud of you Drian!  Keep up the hard work.

Andy “Shaggy” Acker took the unfortunate news of our canceled Seminar as an opportunity to go win another $400 dollars at the Combat Corner grappling championships.  But, the real news was Shaggy’s second match of the day where he defeated UFC Veteran and Pedro Sauer Black Belt -Eric “Red” Schaefer.  Schaefer is known through out WI as one of the best No gi grappler’s in the state and these guys have been on a collision course for quite a while now.  Shaggy controlled the match and won 6-0 (Although ) I think it was only scored 4-0 by the refs.   Nice Work Shaggy, Next stop is the world championships, time to train hard!

Hey guys, don’t forget that the Jacare Seminar is less than two weeks away!   Don’t miss out on the opportunity to train with a true BJJ legend.  Romero “Jacare” Cavalcanti  (center of picture) is a 7th begree red and black belt and one of the founder’s of Alliance.  He  is renowned for his great technique, ability to instruct and coach, and best of all his ability to make champions!  He is the reason that we continually are improving as a team and you don’t want to miss this!  See Sonya or Mark for details and sign up soon, spots are going fast and you don’t want to miss out!

Hey guys, We are back from the Pan Jiujitsu Championship in Irvine, CA.  What a great trip we had.  We took 10 competitors and brought back 5 medals here to WI.  Over all, The Alliance team brought together about 230 competitors from all  over the world and we once again won the Team Trophy!  Pan Ams champs 2012!!!!

The Madison crew all looked very good and nobody was outclassed in their matches.  Results are below.  Even though not everyone placed, they all had a great showing and proved that we are doing the right things to compete on the national stage and in the biggest tournaments in the world.  Keep in mind that the Pans is the Largest tournament in the world.  It is run over 4 days and had almost 3300 competitors this year.  Which means 1650 people lost their first match, that should put it in perspective.  Just making the podium at this event is a huge accomplishment and we are so proud of everyone who went out and put it all on the line for their team.

Marla Fish-3rd Place-Women’s Master purple belt- Heavyweight.

Sonya Barton-3rd Place- Women’s purple belt-Feather weight

Nate Owen-3rd Place-Men’s adult Blue belt-Light Feather weight

Kaice Reilly-3rd Place -Men’s Senior 2 Blue belt-Medium heavy weight

Kaice also went on to fight in the open weight division and also took a 3rd place victory their as well!

Again, we couldn’t have been more proud of all the people that went.  We need to keep focused, keep training hard, and keep advancing our technique so that we can grow this team to even better things!

So we are back from another successful IBJJF tournament.  Everyone of our competitors did a great job and we are all very proud of them.  Here are the results.

1st Place -Andy “Shaggy” Acker -194.5 lbs Purple belt

1st Place -Andy “shaggy” Acker -Open class Purple belt

1st Place -Nate Owen – 141 lbs Blue belt

2nd Place – Hana Maciolek -141 lbs Women’s white belt

3rd Place -Andrew Pirsch -154 lbs  Blue Belt

3rd Place- Tina Warren – Heavyweight- White belt

Hey Everyone, We are closing the gym due to weather tonight. Forecast is for at least 8 inches maybe more and the roads are very frozen and slippery. If you are going to the IBJJF tomorrow, we are leaving the gym at 6:00 a.m. no exceptions. We need to leave plenty of time with the weather! Please pass the word to whoever you can. Thanks!

Congratulations to our students Andrew Acker (Shaggy) and Robby Cunningham for their victories at the King Grappler tournament this weekend. This tournament is a no time limit, no points, submission only tournament with an over 175 lbs division and an under 175 lbs division. Once again, Our boys closed out the divisions, just as they (Andrew Acker and Nick Klein) did last year. Thanks guys, you keep working hard and proving why we are the best BJJ school in WI!!!

Starting next week, Thursday January 19th, will be the first day of two new classes added to the Schedule. First, at 6p.m., we will know have a second Muay Thai Fundamentals class. Then at 7:00 crunchtime returns to Thursday because of the high demand we have had for that class. We are looking forward to having a great turnout for both of these classes in the future. Thanks!

Don’t forget that next week, January, 9th 2012, the Monday night Vinyasa Flow class is back to it’s normal time of 5:45 p.m. Yoga is canceled for January 2nd, 2012 due to expected low attendance by way of the Badger’s Rose bowl game. All other classes will run as normal and we hope you had a great 2011. Happy New Year!