We are headed up to Santa Cruz the weekend of Oct 15-17 to compete at the US Open. Sign up ASAP if you want to compete. There will be free accommodation at David Telfer’s parents house for the first number of people who tell him they want to kick it with the Telfer clan! Come join Robot and the rest of the Lotus Club while we rock this tournament. http://www.usopenbjj.com/
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
American BJJ Nationals are right around the corner. To sign up go to http://www.ibjjf.org/ Sign up as: Team: Lotus Club, Instructor: Tim Peterson Sept 25/26 at: California State University, Dominguez Hills 1000 E. Victoria Street Carson, California 90747
Congratulations to all those who received new belts and stripes this Saturday! Photos coming soon!!! Belts and Stripes were awarded to the following: David Telfer: Brown Belt Dom Hoskins: 4 stripes on Blue Belt Mike Martinez: 4 stripes on Blue Belt Jerry Fang: 3 stripes on Blue Belt David Kwon: Blue Belt Caesar Chu: Blue Belt Dewayne Wilson: Blue Belt Fred Maniquis: Blue Belt Robert Gonzales: Blue Belt Mechum Purnell: Blue Belt Dylan Lubell: 4 Stripes Yellow Belt Alex Leavitt: [...]
Come join us this weekend, Saturday, August 28 for our belt change and bbq/ufc party. IF YOU WANT TO TEST FOR A BELT OR STRIPES YOU MUST SEND DAVID AND EMAIL AT david@robotbjj.com Saturday, 2pm at Lotus OC: 16632 Hale Ave., Suite100, Irvine, CA 92606 Belt change starts at 2pm, followed by potluck followed by UFC at 7pm. Please feel free to bring your family, friends, etc.
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 [...]
Firstly, CONGRATS to Samantha Perez for medaling Silver at the Worlds! Huge accomplishment!!! Second, do NOT sign up for Grappling X. We are not doing that disorganized tournament. Sorry for any confusion!! We are doing a comp here in LA on the 19th close by. We encourage everyone to do it!!! Write to David at david@robotbjj.com if you want to do it!
Robot (and the rest of Lotus) will be competing at the following two competitions. Sign up now if you want to compete: Fabio Santos Open, San Diego, May15 http://www.fabiojiujitsu.com/second_santos_open.html World BJJ Championships (Biggest Tournament in the World), Long Beach, CA June 3, 4, 5, 6th http://www.ibjjf.org/
Tim won Bronze at Pan Ams this weekend! Pics and videos to follow!!