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Me and Shawn Kelcher will be making the trip out to Long Beach, CA to put it on the line in the pyramid! I just hate I will miss all our guys competing the day before at the Atama Open in Houston! So you wont see me rolling in a gi very much the next couple of weeks! Special THANKS goes out to Mark Hazlip for putting us up in a room!

http://www.ibjjf.org/nogi2009registration.htm

Watch it LIVE on the internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDgsisJ ... r_embedded

Tournament Preview:

http://jiu-jitsu.suite101.com/article.c ... nt_preview

The brackets are up!: www.ibjjf.org

I got Jared Nathatnson (Checkmat BJJ) the first round. If I win that I get a rematch with a fresh Romulo Barral since he has a bye the first rd. Barral choked me out at the Mundials pretty quick like. Im just focused on Nathatnson right now. I dont anything about him.

Shawn Kelcher has a Nova Uniao guy the first round. He only has 4 guys in his division so he has a good chance at bringing home a No-Gi World Championship!!!

Remember you can watch me and many other top notch BJJ Black Belts live for FREE on www.nogi.com All you have to do is creat an account. It starts at 11am Texas time but I will be going about 1:30pm Texas time. Here are some of the other big names competing:

Brandon "Boxcar" Mullins - Westside MMA (TX Black Belt)
Wesley Gann - Lutter Black Belt
Baret Yoshida - ADDC Vet
Chris Westfall - Lutter Black Belt
Patrick Head - Gracie Barra Beaumont (Black Belt Debut)
JT Torres - Lyod Irvin BB 19 yrs old
Lucas Lepri - Alliance BB
Daniel Moraes - Relson Gracie BB
Mike Fowler - Lyod Irvin BB
Nick Diaz - Cesar Gracie / UFC fighter
Shawn Williams - Renzo Gracie BB
Pablo Popovitch - Beat Marcelo Garcia to become ADCC 09 Champ
Romulo Barral - Multiple Time BB World Champ
Octavio Sousa - BB Pan-Am Champ
Bruno Bastos - Nova Uniao BB
Travis Lutter - UFC fighter
Roberto Alencar - Gracie Barra BB 09 Pan-Am champ
Rafael Lovato Jr - BB Mundial Champ
Josh Barnett - Former UFC Heavyweight Champ

Time to DW!

Results are on the website NEWS/Jiu-Jitsu

Shawn "Crippler" Kelcher lost in the first round of his division 2-0. He looked great and fought hard. There were only 4 guys in his division so he was awarded 3rd place! Shawn also went at it in the open division. He drew a monster of a man that easily outweighed him 20lbs. Shawn was better than the guy and was ahead on points the entire match and almost finished him with a triangle. Then about 4 minutes in he caught a knee that busted his nose. That plus fatigued allowed the guy to take Shawns back and finished it with a rear naked choke.

I was feeling good in my first match against a black belt from checkmat. The guy pulled half-guard and got a sweep on me. Then I swept him back making the score even 2-2. I felt in absolutely no danger then the guy put a toe hold on me out of nowhere! I did not resist to it all and it popped very loud. Ive never had anything pop like that. The guy was a real nice guy and let go immediately. I put some ice on it and I am lipping a little bit today. It feels ALOT better than what it did Sunday. I will rest it this week and I am pretty confident I will be back training next week.