Burlacu este satul din Republica Moldova unde un grup de copii practica Jiu Jitsu Brazilian! Robert McMasters este cel care i-a initiat pe copii in tainele BJJ-ului. Americanul face parte din Peace Corp si a locuit la Burlacu o buna bucata de timp. El este centura albastra in BJJ sub Saulo Ribeiro si de cateva luni se antreneaza la Absoluto. Robert a tinut sa-l duca pe globetrotter-ul BJJ, Christian Graugart, la Burlacu pentru un seminar.

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Romanian’s biggest achivement in BJJ competitions came last weekend when our team won 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals in the European BJJ Championship 2011. All members of Absoluto and especially Camil Moldoveanu (gold medal, +100 kg, blue belt, adult), Remus Corbei (gold medal, -70 kg, blue belt, master), George Stanciu (silver medal, -70 kg, purple belt, master) and Tudor Mihaita (silver medal, -88 kg, brown belt, master) want to dedicate this achievement to Eddie Kone, Absoluto’s supervisor and head of our association.

We want to thank you for your help in developing BJJ in Romania and for being a true friend! We will always be on your side and be part of the extended family! All the medals that we’ve won are dedicated to you, Professor!

Horatiu Balint e printre cei mai buni incepatori de la Absoluto. Fost campion national de culturism la juniori, acum se axeaza pe BJJ si MMA. La Absoluto l-a cunoscut pe Marius Mazarean un impatimit al curselor de anduranta: maraton, triatlon, Iron Man etc. Marius i-a propus sa i se alature in pregatirea pentru un concurs de triatlon, la proba de bicicleta. Chiar de la prima sesiune, Hoartiu a reusit sa parcurga 100 km pe bicicleta, intr-un timp impresionant avand in vedere ca nu avea pregatire prealabila, iar culturismul nu e cunoscut ca un sport ce formeaza conditie fizica care sa se potriveasca efortului aerob. Pe 14 octombrie a primit invitatia din partea lui Marius sa participe la “Maratonul Bucurestiului”, in proba de semi-maraton (21,095 km), ce urma sa aiba loc peste 3 zile!
Participarea a fost un succes, Horatiu terminand cursa in 1 h si 50 min, ocupand locul 176 din 500 de participanti!
Il felicitam si pe aceasta cale!

Horatiu, dupa un antrenament de BJJ, cu medalia primita dupa terminarea cursei:

Romanul care se bate in Anglia, Valentino Petrescu, a pe locul 4 intr-un top al celor mai promitatori luptatori europeni de MMA, neinvinsi. Sherdog a facut o lista cu cei mai buni 10, iar Vali a prins top 5. Iata ce zice celebrul site despre el:

4. Valentino Petrescu (8-0) — Age: 29 / Country: Romania

Look up “loyalty” in the dictionary, and one might find Petrescu’s image depicted next to it. The Romanian-born UK resident has spent his entire eight-fight career inside the cage of his home promotion — Ultimate Warrior Challenge. However, the UWC has not sugar-coated the light heavyweight’s path. Petrescu has already faced two formidable opponents: Lithuanian kickboxer Arunas Andriuskevicus and Polish submission specialist Przemyslaw Mysiala. “Battista” has gone the distance only once.

Petrescu in vizita la Absoluto, alaturi de instructorul Tudor Mihaita:

Gala Martial Combat 6, disputata in Coreea de Sud, a avut sala full. Spectatorii au venit sa-l vada in special pe compatriotul lor Yang Sung Ho, practicant de Muay Thai si BJJ, care a luptat impotriva lui Ben Simon, practiant de… Krav Maga. Yang, care nu mai luptase de doi ani a castigat prin armbar. Citeste un articol despre lupta celor doi aici: http://www.espnstar.com/other-sports/news/detail/item467057/Korean-makes-comeback-at-Martial-Combat-6/

Royler Gracie a acordat recent un interviu pentru revista Tatame:

“What do you think of the new generation of Jiu-Jitsu fighters?

I thinks they’re getting better and better. We can’t say they settled down. You always have a new technique to learn, a new detail, and then everybody starts training it and it’s not a new thing anymore and others come. I believe thing tend to grow more and more.

Some people doubted of Jiu-Jitsu’s efficacy on MMA nowadays after some striker’s triumph, but now we come to a favorable moment of the soft art, which has been being used by many important fighters. How do you see this Jiu-Jitsu current scene on MMA? 

Actually, I don’t see Jiu-Jitsu being a disadvantage in any moment. Like I told you, there are many strikers who are also great Jiu-Jitsu athletes and they improved their game this way. Wrestlers learned Jiu-Jitsu and are better fighters now. Jiu-Jitsu’s fighters perfected theis skills on MMA. What I can say is that things point out to a better thing because people are training more and more Jiu-Jitsu and its athletes will have a harder time on beating their opponents, because who trains Jiu-Jitsu also learns who to defend yourself of it. We’ve got to a point where the guy can be an expert in Jiu-Jitsu and be a good standing opponent and you ought to want to really be there, will all your heart.

What did you think of the bout between Fabrício Werdum and Fedor Emelianenko?

I thought it was spectacular. Before Werdum fought on World, like a week before that, I came to talk to him and I told him: “you’ll submit this guy”. Fedor, to me, it’s not even close of being on a level like your Jiu-Jitsu is. “Do you think?”, he asked me and I answered him “I don’t think, I’m sure”. Right after the fight I called him to congratulate him and I told him I knew it (laughs). It could only be it, I knew it… We knew it. I believe if he faces Fedor 10 times, he’ll submit him on 9 of them. His Jiu-Jitsu is a lot better than Fedor’s power, there’s no comparison you see this phenomenon, but he has never fought against a guy of Werdum’s caliber. 

In your opinion, why many Jiu-Jitsu fighters are choosing to trade punches and end up being beat because of that?

Well, we can’t forget that MMA have events that demand that its athletes stay on that standing game and sometimes the guy doesn’t want to do it, but it became a business thing.  If your not good on that area, they won’t call you again, they want to see it, they don’t like to see two guys fighting themselves on the ground. The fight starts standing with the two guys far for each other, so that’s impossible for us to avoid it. If you want to spend all the fight stuck, it’s not easy. I believe it’s a matter of good sense from the Jiu-Jitsu fighter and want to freeze the fight, but know he has to wait for the guy to go for a blow to get a chance to grab him, but not just to grab and get stuck on the round. Sometimes the guy doesn’t know when to stop trying to grab his opponent and being aggressive.

What do you think changed in MMA along the years?

I believe that in the olden days no one trained Jiu-Jitsu and nowadays everybody trains it. It’s like my father used to say: we’ve got to a point where Jiu-Jitsu is the most important thing inside MMA. If the guy doesn’t train Jiu-Jitsu, his chances are very small.

How do you see this growth of non-Brazilians on World of Jiu-Jitsu? Do you believe they can mean a threat to the Brazilian hegemony on the sport?

Everything says they should be better and better each year that goes by. But we can’t forget hat World has being happening in America, not in Brazil anymore. There are a lot of talented people in Brazil, but sometimes, because of not having money enough to travel, or not having a visa or financial support or sponsorship, they can’t manage to go there to dispute the championship. I believe that these guy’s chances are bigger if World comes to Brazil and then we can show the world what we have best, which is our human material.

Are you in favor of this comeback of the World to Brazil?

I believe it’s important for the growth of the sport, it’ll be a good thing to shake this current scene and a good opportunity for those who can’t afford travelling and also to show how much more talented athletes we’ve got, I believe in it. I think it’s really important. We have to bring this championship back to Brazil. I think they should change its location… It doesn’t have to always be in America, neither in Brazil. We can offer the chance of other countries to show its talent without having to spend so much money.

Do you believe Rodrigo Minotauro can shine again among the tops? What do you think he should do to return to the place of a great champion he used to occupy and we know so well?

Minotauro is a guy who always brought Brazil’s name to wherever he went, is a outstanding guy outside Brazil. He is a great fighter, a great human being and a great person. Of course everybody should know that the years come and we lose it a little, and they younger guys are getting better and better each time more. Minotauro stayed on the top for a long time, and I still believe he has the tools to get back there, his Jiu-Jitsu is very good, but we have to know that the other guys are also improving. And it’s not that Minotauro got worse… I believe he has to train a little more, and even have a good moment, because his Jiu-Jitsu’s abilities are great, and he has a good chance of shining again. Maybe he’s lacking training.”

Mult-asteptatul meci Fedor Emelianenko-Fabricio Werdum a avut un final pe care putini il prevedeau: finalizare a brazilianului dupa 69 de secunde! Werdum anuntase inainte de meci ca vrea sa castige rapid, in prima repriza, datorita factorului “transpiratie” ce poate periclita succesul finalizarilor in rundele urmatoare. Nimeni insa nu-l credea. Nici macar Fedor. Un luptator polivalent care a avut indrazneala sa stea in garda lui Nogueira, arma cea mai puternica a acestuia. Lucrurile se schimba insa in fata unui dublu campion atat la Mundial, cat si la ADCC.

Cei doi schimba cateva lovituri si una dintre ele il trimite pe Fabricio la sol. Brazilianul da semne ca e ok si incepe sa se retraga pentru a crea spatiu intre el si adversar:

Fedor face o prima greseala tactica: se arunca in garda lui Werdum. In meciul brazilianului cu Arlovski, de fiecare data cand situatia de mai sus s-a repetat, rusul s-a multmit sa-i dea low-kick-uri peste picioare si sa astepte revenirea luptei in picioare. Fedor face si o prima greseala tehnica. Cu toate ca ajunge in triunghi, nu face postura, ci incearca sa iasa in directia in care triunghiul se strange, impinge cu mana aflata in afara, ba chiar incearca sa loveasca.

Rusul incearca sa depaseasca garda, Fabricio face un roll sa recupereze garda si isi arunca piciorul din nou dupa triunghi. Aici apare un moment cheie: miscarea lui Fedor este blocata de cusca (s-a spus de multe ori ca Fedor nu obisnuieste sa se antreneze in cusca sau intr-un mediu care sa o simuleze). Prins din nou in triunghi, Emelianenko iarasi nu postureaza, ba chiar incearca din nou sa-l loveasca pe Werdum.

De aici treaba lui Werdum e mult mai usoara. Il ameninta cu armbar pe rus, fortandu-l pe acesta sa se apere prin impachetare. Miscare care nu face altceva decat sa-l ajute pe brazilian sa ajusteze si mai bine triunghiul. Intreaga secventa ce a urmat, cu atacul dublu triunghi-armbar si variantele posibile de finalizare pot fi vazute maine pe blogul nostru intr-un mini-instructional prezentat de Tudor Mihaita.

In primul rand, trebuie sa intelegeti ca este normal ca atunci cand va antrenati intr-un stil ce presupune frecatul de saltele, care nu sunt chiar cele mai curate din lume, sa apara reactii ale pielii.

Cele mai frecvente sunt asa zisele cosuri, adica infectarea porilor pielii. Acest lucru poate fi evitat in mai multe feluri:

1. faceti dus imediat ce ajungeti acasa. Cu cat stati mai mult “murdari” dupa antrenament, cu atat microbii au mai mult timp de a patrunde in piele.

2. dupa dus folositi creme ce catifeleaza pielea. Pielea catifelata este mai protejata de patrunderea microbilor in pori.

3. nu va scarpinati in timpul sau dupa antrenament. Frecarea pielii, mai ales cu unghiile, duce la deschiderea locala si de scurta durata a porilor, ceea ce paote fi de ajuns pentru patrunderea microbilor.Daca trebuie neaparat sa o faceti, incercati sa nu folositi unghiile.

4. daca apar cosuri, nu le spargeti si nu va frecati in zona, deoarece luati sub unghii “infectia” si o puteti raspandi in alte zone unde va veti scarpina apoi.

5. daca infectiile sunt destul de mari si focarul este raspandit vizibil, consultati medicul de familie pentru a va face o programare la dermatolog. Se scapa foarte usor de aceste cosuri, trebuie doar sa fiti examinat de un dermatolog.

O alta probleme a pielii in cazul sportivilor in general, sunt reactiile datorate folositii suplimentelor sau a diverselor substante ajutatoare. Acestea pot provoca reactii diferite ale pielii, de la eczeme la retentii de sebum.
Pentru a evita aceste probleme, consultati un medic specializat inainte de a incepe consumul de substante, fiecare organism putand avea reactii diverse la ce ii este administrat.

Ca reguli generale, incercati sa nu faceti antrenament cu rani deschise, incercati sa le bandajati sau sa le acoperiti in orice fel. O igiena buna in afara salii duce la miscosarea riscului contactarii unei boli de piele. Nu folositi prosoapele, papucii sau alte obiecte personale ale colegilor de sala.

Si nu in ultimul rand, daca aveti o problema, cat de mica ar fi, consultati un medic dermatolog. Afectiunile, chiar si cele mai grave, se pot trata foarte usor daca apelati la un specialist.