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Robot and Lotus win big at Nationals!

Wednesday, September 29th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

In case you haven’t heard, we have two new US National Champions at Robot!  Tim and Laercio both won hard brackets to take home gold at US Nationals! Among the many Lotus medals, the following Robot competitors won the following medals: Laercio Fernandes:  Gold Tim Peterson:  Gold David Telfer:  Bronze Dom Hoskins:  Bronze Pat Gunderson:  Bronze For more info, check out Robot Facebook page   http://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/Robot-Fight-Fitness/146152425424065?ref=ts

Lotus Sweeps Competition!

Monday, June 28th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

Lotus (Robot/OC) swept the Tinguinha competition this weekend bringing home about 90% of all medals awarded.  Even after moving up to higher weight classes, David Telfer and Jun Chong (Lotus OC) closed out the purple belt division and Tim Peterson and Evan Cathey (Lotus OC) did the same against much bigger opponents in the brown belt division.  Lotus closed out 3 different brackets!!! (This means we took 1st and 2nd place!) Congrats to all those who competed and especially to: [...]

Tinguinha Tournament This Sunday!!

Friday, June 25th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

Tinguinhas in-house this Sunday! Only $35 and we have a lot of Lotus members going! So, you need to register by Friday (today!) for the tournament. Go to http://www.tinguinha.com/tbjjinhousetournament.html to register and pay. You can weigh in on Saturday or Sunday. I recommend Saturday if you are cutting weight. All the info is on their site. There are going to be a lot of Lotus members competing so this should be a great tournament! If you are coming or competing you [...]

Tournament Results and Upcoming Tournaments.

Tuesday, June 22nd 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

Congrats to all those who competed last weekend!  Everyone did a great job, and Lotus rocked that tournament, but a special congrats to: Rich who won Gold & Arun who won Silver (after winning 3 fights against bigger opponents)! Also, congrats to Robert who went down to Grappling X on his own two weeks ago and rocked them competition earning a gold medal. Get Ready for this weekend’s competition on Sunday in Orange County at Tinguinhas.  Sign up for the [...]

BJJ Pan Am Schedule (No noon class on Friday!)

Tuesday, April 6th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

BJJ Pan Ams are this weekend.   It’s the 2nd largest competition in the world and worth attending (and worth supporting our team).  Please wear your competition team shirt at the tournament so we look like a team!  For directions and more info, go to http://www.ibjjf.org/pan2010registration.htm The following Team members will be fighting on the following days at the following times (there will also be many other Lotus Club fighters from other Lotus Club academies competing). Thursday, April 8th 11:30am [...]

Robot Training At Lotus OC

Sunday, April 4th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

Giva’s MMA Fight This Friday (March 19th) in Irvine!

Tuesday, March 16th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

Come support Giva this Friday at Bren Events Center at UCI (Irvine).  He has an MMA bout and we should all be out there to show our support! For tickets please email D Kwon at dskwon@gmail.com

New Sunday Schedule

Sunday, March 7th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

There is a new class on Sundays and open mat has moved around. Please check the schedule page. Also, Giva Santana will be teaching his first class at Robot next Sunday, March 14th at 12:30pm (Tim is teaching this Sunday, March 7th) If you plan on competing, it is very important to come to the Sunday class!!

Lotus Closes Out Bracket at Copa and Robot Takes 3 Medals

Thursday, March 4th 2010 | 0 Comments | by David

Congrats to all Copa competitors.  We had a great time and the team did really well.  In particular, the following people medaled: Tim:  Silver (Tim made it to the finals and then gave the gold to fellow Lotus Club fighter, Evan Cathey, in a coin toss) Greg:  Gold!!!!!!! Mechum:  Silver Henri:  Tied for bronze! Good job people!