US Grappling Chicago tomorrow! In the Oak Lawn Pavilion this Saturday May 19th there will be the return of US Grappling. If you have not registered yet don’t worry to much because its not to late. You can still register at the door. US Grappling is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and submission wrestling (NO-GI BJJ) tournament that travels around the country. It is a smooth run tournament with great competitors. This tournament is great for fun and experience. There is kids, women, adults, and masters divisions. So everyone is welcome.

Please note that because of the tournament, we will be canceling our classes tomorrow. (5/19). Please take this time to come support our BJJ competitors and the local BJJ scene.

Hope to see you all there!

Marcos Yoshiro de Souza and Roberto Satoshi de Souza. 

Not familiar with these two? Here’s just some of their accolades. 

Roberto Satoshi de Souza 
Just within the past 5 months, he has wins against the biggest names in the lightweight division! (Michael Langhi, JT Torres, Lucas Lepri, Davi Ramos, and more!)
ADCC World Pro Cup Champion (2012)
4x World Champion (2006 blue weight & absolute, 2009 purple, 2010 brown)
European Open Champion (2012 black, 2011 brown)
Asian Open Champion (2010 absolute)
Rickson Gracie Cup Champion (2008 purple, 2010 brown open weight)
DEEP XGP Champion (2007)
Sao Paulo State Champion (2007)

Marcos Yoshiro de Souza
Asian Champion (2010 weight & absolute, 2009 absolute)
DUMAU Cup Champion (2010 weight & absolute)
All Japan Jiu-Jitsu Champion (2010 weight & absolute, 2009 absolute)
West Japan Absolute Champion (2010)
Aichi Open Champion
DUMAU International Champion (2010 weight & absolute)
World Pro Cup Asian Trials Champion (2010)
DEEP X 4 Champion (2009)
Newaza de Go Champion (2008)
Rickson Gracie Cup Champion (2006)
Paulista Champion (2005, 2006)
Brazilian National Cup Champion (2005)

The charity seminar will take place on Tuesday, June 5th  from 630 pm to 9 pm at New Breed Training Center in Niles, IL. 

The cost will be $60 per person for the seminar. Part of the proceeds will be going towards the Gi Drive project which provides BJJ Gi’s and equipment to less fortunate BJJ students in Brazil.

Please come out, support a great cause and learn from two of the best BJJ competitors on the scene right now.

Pre-Registration is now open! You can Pregister by sending your payment through PayPal to chicagobjjseminars@gmail.com (PayPal Verified) or by using your Visa or Mastercard and contacting Subculture Kimonos USA.

You can also send in your preregistration and payment (check or money order) via mail to

Gi Drive Charity Seminar
c/o SubCulture USA
27 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60607

If you have any other questions, please email chicagobjjseminars@gmail.com, BJJ in Chicago, or Subculture USA.

Preregistration ends Friday, June 1st at 1159 pm!

We expect a great turnout and know that space will be limited. So please save your spot and pregister! If (and that’s a big if) there are any spots available after pregistration ends, you may register at the door with an additional fee of $20.

In one word????? DRILLING

Building muscle memory to make complex movements just as common as picking up a glass to take a sip of water is many times what makes the difference between finishing a position. Drilling specific movements until they become automatic lead practitioners to work up to long combinations without having to take the time to start them.

Whether it be drilling a lone “arm-bar from the closed guard” to something complex as a “De La Riva counter leg drag to taking the back to a clock choke,” repeating these positions thousands of times allows you to not only recognize when you have the opportunity to execute, but also refine your technique. If you ask any high level competitor or any high level practitioner in any sport, they will tell you that what has been the basis of their success is repeating moves a thousand times, then performing those same moves thousands of more times.

Need help getting started? Here’s a quick video from Jason Scully which can definitely help!

Each section of the expo will be devoted to the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). Whether you’re interested in picking up a new Gi, some extra training gear, Mixed Martial Art (MMA) Branded Apparel, instructional videos, or looking to meet the who’s who in the BJJ world, they’ll be something for you at the expo.

Headlining some of the festivities is a group of Superfights featuring some of the top names in BJJ and MMA.

Nick Diaz vs. Braulio Estima (GI)
Kayron Gracie vs. Rafael Lovato Jr. (GI)
Vitor Estima vs. Kron Gracie (GI)
Nino Schembri vs. Bill Cooper (GI)
Kyra Gracie vs. Alexis Davis (No-Gi)
Caio Terra vs. Jeff Glover (No-Gi)

Of these bouts, one of the more interesting match-ups is the bout between Terra and Glover. These two have had quite the “back-and-forth” between each other and now these two have agreed to stop the talking and compete against each other.

Regardless of the outcome of any of these superfights, it’s going to be a great weekend for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

1) Drink water!
You have probably heard this already but it really has a HUGE effect. If you replace a 20oz bottle of soda with water daily you can lose up to 35 pounds a year. Also soda and other drinks have a bunch of artificial ingredients. These artificial ingredients make you more hungry and cause you to eat more when you don’t need too.

2) Avoid starchy carbohydrates.
This means less bread, pasta, rice, and anything with yeast or gluten. This is because these carbs don’t just digest normally. Humans are naturally allergic to gluten. When eaten our bodies cant process it normally and it gets our digestive system backed up. Thus, making you heavier.

3) Forget about the dressings and salad toppings.
You eat a salad to eat healthy. If you drench it in ranch, then it defeats the purpose of eating a salad. The dressing has all the fat and unwanted material in it. Take out the dressing, it will take off the weight.

4) Eat more small meals, than less big meals.
If you are eating every three hours than you will not be hungry. This will keep you from eating one enormous meal and this will keep away un-needed calories.

5) No fried foods!
Taking and food and dipping it in really hot fat does taste good but doesn’t help you look good. Instead of getting french fries try a baked potato.

Altogether, we had over 80 competitors, including kids and adults representing 4 different schools (New Breed Chicago/Training Center, New Breed Old-Town, New Breed Michigan, and Dryden BJJ).

Here are the results:

Beginner Kid’s Division
1st Place – Taylor Connely

Intermediate Kid’s Division
1st Place – Jimmy McGovern

Advanced Kid’s Division
1st Place – Brandon Sanchez
2nd Place – Mike Kane
3rd Place – Yasmine Ziadi
3rd Place – Antonio Gutierrez
Consolation Bracket Winner – Stephen Tzveyn

Adult White Belt under 170 lbs
1st Place – Dave Nauta (New Breed Michigan)
2nd Place – Tim Engelsman (New Breed Michigan)
3rd Place – Rob Young (New Breed Training Center)
3rd Place – Deanno Tamminga (New Breed Michigan)
Consolation Bracket Winner – Mike Kelly (New Breed Training Center)

Adult White Belt 171 lbs – 194 lbs
1st Place – William McMillan (New Breed Michigan)
2nd Place – Rick Esspara (New Breed Old-Town)
3rd Place – Kevin Schreiber (New Breed Old-Town)
3rd Place – Alyn Goossen (New Breed Michigan)
Consolation Bracket Winner – Tony Cruz (New Breed Training Center)

Adult White Belt over 194 lbs
1st Place – Mitchell Nilhaus (New Breed Michigan)
2nd Place – Jon Holombad (New Breed Training Center)
3rd Place – Eddie Arroyo (New Breed Old-Town)
3rd Place – Mark Jedlinki (New Breed Training Center)
Consolation Bracket Winner – Dan DeLopez (New Breed Training Center)

Adult Blue Belt under 179 lbs
1st Place – Ashur Darmo (New Breed Training Center)
2nd Place – Kenny Kells (New Breed Training Center)
3rd Place – John Le (New Breed Old-Town)
3rd Place – Matt Purtee (New Breed Michigan)
Consolation Bracket Winner – Val Lykohap (Dryden BJJ)

Adult Blue Belt over 220 lbs
1st Place – Jacob Woudwyk (New Breed Michigan)
2nd Place – Jim Trintafillo (New Breed Training Center)
3rd Place – Bob Hemmerich (New Breed Training Center)
3rd Place – Curt Schneider (New Breed Michigan)
Consolation Bracket Winner – Dennis Estorco (New Breed Training Center)

Thanks again to all of our competitors from New Breed Michigan, New Breed Old-Town, Dryden BJJ, and New Breed Training Center for making our first In-House Tournament a success!!! We’ll definitely be hosting more in-house activities for all of our members– stay tuned!!!

We have videos that we will be putting up soon and for more information and pictures, visit our facebook page at www.facebook.com/newbreedchicago

Please also note that any stand-up open mat participants should be done with their workouts and training prior to 1030 am.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Preliminary results are in and it looks like New Breed Chicago’s very own Eddie Wineland will be kicking off the live Main Card of the UFC’s “UFC on FX 3″ as reported by Eddie via Twitter. UFC on FX 3 (Johnson vs. McCall) is schedule for June 8th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and will feature twelve bouts.

Eddie’s (18-8-1) match-up with his opponent, Scott Jorgensen (13-5-0), were part of a “on the bubble vote” in which the last fight on the Main Card was decided by fan vote.

Eddie will be searching for redemption after taking on two of the top bantamweights in the world in Uriah Faber and Joseph Benevidez. Things don’t get any easier with a very game Scott Jorgensen with both he and Eddie looking to use a win in this action packed match up to vault them immediately back into title contention.

Tune in Friday, June 8th for what will surely be one of the exciting match ups of the card if not one of the most exciting Mixed Martial Art bouts of the year!

Andrew Smith runs the US Grappling tournaments and does an excellent job in it. The divisions run on time and with the US Grappling certified referees to control the matches. Andrew is also a teammate of ours, he as well is under BJJ Revolution Team and Rodrigo Medeiros.

Come support the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and both of our teams from New Breed Training Center and New Breed Old Town. Hope to see everyone on May 19th and good luck to all the competitors!

For more information and to register, go to www.usgrappling.com

The demonstration will take place during our scheduled Open Mat from 9:30 am to 11:00 am. We will also have staff on hand in the BJJ area what will be able to answer any questions you may have while the demonstration is on-going.

New Breed Old-Town is located inside Fitness Forumla Clubs Old-Town on the 2nd floor.

If you’ve never scene Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu before, here’s two clips of what you could expect.