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Thoughts on the East Coast Championships 6/17/2006

This entry was posted on 6/19/2006 9:42 PM and is filed under Main.

252 competitors. Great matches. AWESOME Pro division. Well organized.

AND

Weird venue. Hot and humid (uggh).

Overall a GREAT event put on by Andrew Smith and Mike Moses. It was a long day on my feet, selling gear, meeting new people, hooking up with old friends, wishing I could see the mats better. I busted out some new cotton NHB Gear tees and some new designs on the wicking tees including a new "Brazilian Jiu Jitsu -- Now Made In America" shirt. And of course the SideFly grappling boardshorts, patches, loose-fits, etc. All the new gear will be up in the store this week.

Some great action in the NHB GEAR $1,000 Pro division with Marcos "Yemaso" Torregrosa defeating Lloyd Irvin's Ryan Hall by an astonishing 19x0 and going on to armlock Alliance brown belt Ryan Ellison from the triangle. Chris Moriarty beat Alexis Ramos and Wilson Reis on the other side of the bracket to meet Yemaso in the finals. The finals were supposed to happen in the MMA/Muay Thai ring that evening. We waited and waited and waited for them to give the green light for the grappling finals. I think it finally happened at 10:30pm. Long time for those guys to wait!

Finals breakdown:
The bigger Moriarty comes out and pulls guard almost immediately and Yemaso chuckles at this since HE likes to play guard. Yemaso works to pass, but Moriarty gets the sweep. Yemaso works his dangerous open guard while Moriarty looks to pass from standing. After some time, Moriarty gets a nice push pass right into mount for points. Yemaso is working to escape, but gets stuck in a triangle. He puts up a great defense that doesn't allow Moriarty to finish, but then he transitions into an armlock and Yemaso was forced to tap. Very good technical fight from both guys. Chris said in his FightWorks interview he will use the money for the Mundials this year. Good luck, Chris!

Previously that day, Marcos Torregrosa jumped into the men's Brown Belt gi division and defeated Steve Kim 7-0 and Brad Court by advantage in a close technical match to win the division.

Kinda strange that many of the guys in the Pro were smaller. Maybe because there were some guys that got injured or dropped out in the weeks leading up to the event. Yemaso, Reis, and Hall were each under 170lbs. For an under 200 division you usually see the big boys cutting weight. Props to all the competitors for jumping in there especially the little guys!

In the Women's Pro, Kizma Button defeated Emily Kwok in the finals to win it all.

The next East Coast Grappling Championship event will be in Hampton, VA on JULY 23 in an awesome collesium-style venue. There will be a NHB Gear $500 170 lb BJJ Black Belt division with some top competitors. If you are on the east coast don't miss it. If you are a BJJ black belt and interested in competing contact me at blog@nhbgear.com. I will post more info as it comes in.

Thanks for reading,

Sam
NHBGEAR.com

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6/19/2006 11:22 PM Brad Court wrote:
This blog sucked...

By the way, Moriarty beat Alexis Ramos first round, Ryan Ellison beat Bill Scott.
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1. 6/20/2006 9:07 AM Sam Kim wrote:
  
  Nice, ya bastid. I'll fix it!
  
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6/19/2006 11:54 PM perry button wrote:
the guys seemed to go out of thier way to really give the women a bit of the spotlight when setting up the tourney, but when all was said and done after the tourney the women seemed to disappear from any results, comments, etc. except for a single line remark.
was that because they really sucked? did they not fight up to expectations? or, is it that in the end no-one was really interested and it was all a ploy to appease them?
just curious because it seems to happen alot.
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1. 6/20/2006 9:05 AM Sam Kim wrote:
  My short results for the women were merely due to the fact that I didn't get to see any of the matches. I was in the other room working the NHB Gear table and couldn't see many of the Pro matches at all. From what I heard, the girls did great and the crowd seemed to be into it for the finals for sure. There are a few threads on the Forum though.
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9/4/2006 3:23 PM "Sullivan" wrote:
One line? ONE LINE! Give me a break ... Women matches are a lot of fun to watch and need writing about! Women always suprise me on their technique. They after all usually train with guys that are 30-40 lbs heavier than them selves.
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1. 9/4/2006 4:41 PM Sam Kim wrote:
  I agree! I didn't get to see any of the women's matches, so I could not provide any details. I did sign Emiliy Kwok as the newest NHB Gear/Jiu Jitsu Gear Fight Team member though.
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