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Check out Marcelo Garcia ( from his MGinAction.com) site.  Marcelo shows how to take the back and maintain control, important in controlling the fight, your opponent and critical to tournament wins.

BJJ at 40.... Why? The IBJJF defines 36-40 year old competitors as senior. No other area of society, other than sports, are young men and women referred to as seniors. Most would agree that 40-year-olds are middle aged, but not senior. The 20’s are the new teens, the 30’s the new 20’s, and the 40’s the new 30’s. There have been many athletes to accomplish great things beyond 40-years-old. Former NFL player and current BJJ brown belt Jarrod Bunch has won gold medals in the 18-29 division of IBJJF tournaments.

ADCC World Championships 2009 Barcelona 26-27.09.2009. The fight is Marcelo Garcia Vs. Kron Gracie. The weight class is 76.9kg.

The 2009 BJ Penn / Leo Vieira Issue is out with over 27 Techniques, DVD and 80 Pages of Full Color

By Georgette Oden
Photos by Jen Sulak
Reposted with permission from Georgette's Jiu Jitsu World

On Saturday June 19, Leticia Ribeiro put on an incredible 3 1/2 hour seminar in gi techniques for the ladies of Texas... thanks to Triin Seppel, the Fenom Project, and Rob Ables, who runs the Marcelo Garcia affiliate in Dallas (Tiny Killer Robot Jiu Jitsu, isn't that awesome?) And these pictures are all by Jen Sulak, unless I say otherwise.

Leila, another blue belt at my academy, joined me for the 3 hour drive to Dallas which went quickly as we gabbed the whole way up. We arrived a little early, so we snacked in the parking lot before heading inside. Shama, our purple, was in town for the seminar already, and Christy, our academy co-owner, arrived just in time.

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More interviews from the 2010 Pan Am BJJ Tournament.

Marcelo chats about his new academy in NY, designs on fighting in the worlds, his MMA career and anticipation about fighting in the Jiu Jitsu Worlds in June.

And check out MGinAction.com for videos of Marcelo 's classes and BJJ techniques.

The Men end the ADCC 2011 with a great set of finals.  Exceptional matches between true professionals and masters of the sport.

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Get to the NY MMA Expo Friday, Novemeber 12 & 13th and catch Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Legends in a limited seminar session open to only 40 people per session. The complete schedule includes:

Friday, November 12th

• KRU PHIL NURSE
• MARCELO GARCIA
• VITOR "SHAOLIN" RIBEIRO

Saturday, November 13th

• JIMMY PEDRO
• RENZO GRACIE
• RICARDO LIBORIO

Pablo Popovitch entered the 2012 NoGi Pan Ams as a favorite to win not only his weight class but also the open weight division. On Pablo's side of the bracket were Abmar Barbosa and first time Pan Ams competitor, Ezra Lenon. Pablo had a 1st round bye and popular opinion was that his first match would be against Abmar and then after the inevitable win Pablo would continue on to win the gold. In what was the biggest upset of the tournament Ezra Lenon defeated Popovitch 2 - 0 after beating Barbosa 10 minutes earlier.

BJJ Legends: Tell me a little about yourself and your training history:

Ezra Lenon: Started training in 2006 with Zack (Ezra’s older brother). He was a blue belt at time and taught me a lot of my fundamentals. After that I moved to Columbia, MO because American Top Team had the only black belts in the area. I trained under Kiko France and stayed there until they closed and I moved to St Louis a little over 2 years ago to teach at Finney’s MMA. In February of 2011 Zack and I both got our black belts from Kiko. At Finney’s I’m teaching classes 5 days a week to kids and adults. I’ve got 70 or so students between all the classes. My older brothers both train BJJ, Zack’s a black belt under Kiko and Levi is a purple belt under Scott Huston.

BJJ: How’d you manage to get your black belt so fast?

Ezra: I pretty much lived at Top Team. I was completely obsessed with training; I’d be there twice a day, six or seven days a week. I still train that much with conditioning a couple times a week, drilling two or three times a week and rolling daily with my students.

BJJ: When you saw the brackets and realized that you had two of the top guys in the world your bracket what were you thinking?

Ezra: Very excited. I couldn’t wait to test myself against this level of competition. I’m always looking to test myself and I’ve been following Pablo pretty much since I began training and knew that no matter what happened it’d be a good match up for me and would be a good match to watch. Also really excited about the absolute division but that didn’t work out because of my knee.

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