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New Breed Chicago In-House Tournament — Saturday, May 5th!

New Breed Training Center will be hosting an in house tournament for our school as well as our affiliate schools in the Midwest Region on Saturday, May 5th! This tournament will provide a great opportunity for all of our schools to meet, greet, and compete with each other and most importantly, have a great time doing it.

The best thing… It’s free to all members of New Breed Training Center, New Breed Old Town, Arena BJJ (Waukegan) and New Breed Michigan.

We will be using a pre-registration ONLY system. Preregistration is easy. Just send the following information to newbreedchicago@gmail.com

NAME
SCHOOL (New Breed Training Center-Niles, New Breed Old Town, New Breed Michigan, Arena BJJ)
BELT
WEIGHT
AGE

Please note that we will be closing registration on Wednesday, May 2nd.

On Friday, May 4th, we will release brackets. Don’t worry about weight classes, we will be drawing up 4-8 man brackets that will primarily be based on weight.

Spectators are welcome and encouraged. We want everyone to have a good time. As long as the weather holds we’ll be having a Cook out in our parking lot right in front of the Academy. Hope to see everyone there. We’ll be posting more information this weekend and hope to see you all there!

Tournament starts at 11 am! Please be there before hand so we can make sure you’re registered and you have time to warm up! See you guys there!!!

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New Breed Old Town – Head Instructor Nick Cimmarusti!

Congratulations again to Nick Cimmarusti On his tremendous performance at the Brown Belt invitational at the Ohio Grappling Challenge on April 14th.

Here’s some footage of one of his matches that day.
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Don’t miss your chance to come train with Nick! He heads up our Old Town location and is developing quite the group there.

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Ohio Grappling Challenge Results, April 14th

Congratulations to our competitors that made the long trip this weekend to Medina, Ohio!

Nick Cimmarusti did fantastatic as he took 2nd in the Brown Belt invitational. The brown belt invite-only division featured 12 of the best brown belts from all over the country including former Ohio Grappling Champions, NAGA champions, and IBJJF Pan BJJ champions!

Also doing well were are blue belts which featured a 2nd place finish by Robin Weerts (first blue belt tournament), and 3rd place finishes by Teody “Zumbinho” Lopez, Ashur Darmo and Matt Kraatz (first blue belt tournament). All-in-all, we had 4 out of our 5 competitors medal.

Terrific job by all! Thanks to Ohio Grappling Challenge and Subculture USA for your support!

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Vote for Eddie Wineland to be on UFC on FX 3 Main Card!!!

New Breed’s very own Eddie Wineland will be taking on Scott “Young Guns” Jorgensen on Friday, June 8 in Fort Lauderdale at the UFC’s “UFC on FX 3″ event.

Eddie’s fight has the opportunity to be voted onto the main card which will appear live on FX.

If you want to see two of the top bantamweight fighters in the world go to war, log onto UFC’s Hometownthrowdown web page and cast your vote!

With these two top bantamweights, there’s guaranteed to be a ton of action all around the Octagon!

Thanks for your support! And we’ll see you on FX!!!

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Reminder: Easter Sunday Classes (Niles, Old Town)

To all, please note that all classes for both of our locations, our Niles Training Center and our Old Town location, will be cancelled for the Holiday.

We apologize if this may cause any inconvienence for anyone. We hope you enjoy the Holiday.

Our regular schedule will resume the following day on Monday, April 9.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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New Breed Jiu-Jitsu – Old Town Schedule Changes effective April, 1st

In an effort to meet the needs of our growing student base in our downtown location. We have made a few adjustments to our Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu schedule at our Old Town location.

Effective Sunday, April 1st, we will be utilizing the following schedule.

New Breed Jiu-Jitsu – Old Town
(located inside Fitness Formula Clubs – Old Town)

Monday              7:00 pm to 8:45 pm
Tuesday             11:30 am to 1:00 pm               7:00 pm to 8:45 pm
Wednesday       NO CLASSES                            NO CLASSES
Thursday           11:30 am to 1:00 pm               7:00 pm to 8:45 pm
Friday                NO CLASSES                            NO CLASSES
Saturday            9:30 am to 11:00 am*
Sunday               12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

*Saturday’s class will always be an informal Open Mat wherein we absolutely encourage visitors to come and train, roll around, observe some rolling, or just hang out.

If you’re interested in coming in to try out a class. Feel free to contact us directly at 847-644-1080 or call FFC-Old Town directly. You may also contact us via e-mail at newbreedchicago@gmail.com.

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March 3rd – IBJJF Chicago International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Open

This Saturday, March 3rd marks the 4th IBJJF tournament in Chicago. The tournament will take place beginning at 9 am at Chicago State University. For more information on the venue, go to www.ibjjf.org.

The tournament schedule can be found here

Come support New Breed Jiu Jitsu Chicago and the local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu scene!

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James Ettling – American Predator Fighting Championship Title Bout – March 3rd!

New Breed Academy – Chicago’s very own James Ettling will be looking to win his first Amatuer MMA title this weekend on Saturday, March 3rd!

James will be one of the co-main events this weekend and will be taking on a very tough opponent to see who will become Amercian Predator Fighting Championship’s first Featherweight Champion.

For more on the fight card, visit the American Predator Fighting Championship website.

Tickets are available at New Breed Training Center, Niles. Please come and support James. He’s been working extremely hard for this fight and is ready to do battle.

We hope everyone from the Team can make it. So if you’re not doing anything after the IBJJF Chicago Internation Open, stop by and come cheer him on!

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Niles Training Center Closed – Saturday, March 3rd – IBJJF Chicago Open

To all New Breed Training Center members. We will be closing the gym for all classes this Saturday, March 3rd for the IBJJF Chicago Winter Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu championships.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please come support our Adult Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu team this weekend. We hope to see you all there!

For more information on the tournament, go to www.ibjjf.org

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Kid’s promotions! Thursday, February 23.

We will be hosting belt promotions for our Kids’ program this Thursday, February 23rd during our Kids’ class at 5 pm.

Please come support and congratulate our little teammates that have been working so hard and having a great time learning the fundamentals of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Hope to see you there!

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