The 3rd Philippine Brazilian JiuJitsu Open and the 2nd Philippine Grappling Challenge
06/04/06
by Ressie Navarro
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The next event will be the 3rd Philippine BJJ Open and the 2nd Philippine No Gi Grappling Challenge, scheduled for the first week of December 2006.
Competitors will vie for the status of Philippine National Open BJJ and No Gi Champions.
This event will once again bring the best competitors in the sport from within the South East Asian region and the Philippines.
Details for registration will be available through this website . The organisers are very appreciative of the support the past events have been given by the grappling community here in the Philippines, and from the teams abroad. We look forward to working with all the teams once again to make this event a success for the competitors. Competition tend to generate great spirit, goodwill, and provides an opportunity to test one's self at the highest level.
To promote and assist in the staging of this event, Sponsors are most welcome! If you are interested to sponsor this competition, Please contact the organizers through email:
stephenk@bjjphilippines.com or
mail@bjjphilippines.com
Blue Belt Promotions
06/04/06
by Ressie Navarro
May - June saw 4 new entrants to the Blue belt ranks.
Congratulations to Hiro , Stone , Lionel and Ziggy for all the hard work and determination it takes to become a blue belt. Your coach and fellow students are very proud of your achievements and look forward to having more coloured belts on the mat in the future.
Team Machado in Japan
06/04/06
by Ressie Navarro
Three competitors from KMA BJJ Team competed in Tokyo, Japan last May 28.
The event brought together over 700 competitors mostly from the Tokyo region.
Hiro Kitamura put in an outstanding effort to win gold in the Masters Division and proved himself a true warrior. This has been his seventh competition over the past two months with Hiro taking out 5 golds, 2 silvers and a bronze. A fantastic effort that was rewarded with Hiro moving onto the blue belt ranks.
Akira Kitamura came third in the infant division showing a lot of potential as he has only been training for 6 months while he is fighting 2 years above his age group.
Coach Stephen came second in the Senior Black Belt Open Division and in the Senior Heavy weight Division, looks like he needs to train harder.
We would like to thank the students and Instructor Mr. Hayakawa of Tri Force Academy and JFT for allowing us to train at their dojo, and for their friendship and support.
The 2nd Pan Asian International BJJ Competition
The 1st Pan Asian Grappling challenge
06/04/06
by Ressie Navarro
The organisers would like to thank all the Mayor of Manila Lito Atienza and the Chairman of the Manila Sports Council Ali Atienza and the people of Manila for thier gracious and wholehearted support of the 2nd Pan Asian Brazilian Jiu Jitsu International and the 1st Pan Asian Grappling Challenge. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for helping us make this event a reality.
We would also like to express our appreciation to the sponsors who helped promote and assist us at the above events.
Thank you to Pepsi, Gatorade, NCO Group, New Breed Academy, Thunder Sports Drink, Fokai, Fatal Fightwear, Men's Health Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer and Kaya restaurant.
On behalf of the organisers we would like to thank all the teams , coaches, spectators, referees and volunteers who made this event a success.
Special mention to all the overseas competitors who made the trip to the Philippines, we hope that you enjoyed the competition and the local hospitality.
This event brought together the biggest number of competitors in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that the Philippines has seen.
With continued competition and the keen support that this event was given, we look forward to even better and bigger comps in the future.
The following Teams took part:
Team Guam
Gracie Barra Philippines
New Breed Academy
Alliance
Don Bosco
Team Machado
Emac Thailand
Cobrakai
HK BJJ
Impakt Kowloon BJJ
Sprawl
Evolution Combat / Machado
Gracie Barra Taiwan
Suntokaran
Special Awards
Stone Ang of Team Machado was awarded his Blue belt at the Pan Asian BJJ International for winning both the White belt Heavyweight and Absoulte division.
Joe Taimanglo of Team Guam earned the " Most Technical Fighter award" for his flawless display in the 2006 Pan Asian No Gi Graplling Challenge. The trophy was donated by the City of Manila.
The winners of the Open weight Basic Joseph Cruz of Team Guam ,and Advanced Absolute division Terence Aflague also of Team Guam where given special awards donated by the City of Manila and the Manila Sports Council headed by Lito Atienza.
For full competition results go to the results page on this website.
For photos go to the photo page.
Many people gave up thier time to make this event run as smoothly as possible and it is always difficult at the time to thank everyone personally . In this regards we would also like to make a special mention to Anthony Perosh who came out from Australia to act as Head ref, and to Ken Bone for their tireless effort as referees.
Lastly my sincere thanks to all the time keepers, scorers and assistants, who where their through out the two days, you guys are the best.
Thank you.
Stephen Kamphuis Wins Gold in the World Masters' BJJ Competition in Brazil
Black Belt Studios
Geelong, Australia
08/31/05
by R.Navarro
Stephen John Kamphuis, head instructor of Kamphuis-Machado BJJ Academy wins Gold in the Blackbelt Superheavyweight division in the 2005 World Masters' BJJ Competition in Brazil.
He also got the bronze in the Absolute division.
Special thanks goes out to Fabricio Martins and his team whom Steve trains with whenever he is in Brazil.
Team Philippines Captures 3rd Place in the 2nd Asia Pacific BJJ Championship
National Taiwan University
Taipei, Taiwan
07/11/05
by Stephen Kamphuis
The 2nd Asia Pacific BJJ competition was held over two days, July 2nd and 3rd in Taipei.
On Saturday, all competitors fought in the Gi Belt divisions, followed by the No Gi Open Belt divisions on Sunday.
The Philippines were represented by TJ Villaluna and Lionel Zamora from Machado as well as Gracie Barra's Fritz Rodriguez, Joey Lepiten and Johnar Salao.
In the spirit of unity and National pride, all the players joined together to represent the Islands as one team. It was great to see the spirit of the team members,
the players, supported and coached each other through out the event.
