8/3/2007
The following excerpt is from an article found on the Philadelphia Flyers' website:
Marco Perazzo (NJMA) works with Cote four days a week doing mixed martial arts and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which Cote is hoping will make him a better fighter. With 664 penalty minutes for the Phantoms the past three seasons combined, Cote knows that his ability to play the enforcer role is his meal ticket to the NHL, especially now that former Flyers-tough guy Todd Fedoruk has signed with the Dallas Stars.
“We do all kinds of hockey-fighting style things. It’s just going to develop balance and strength. I just work on my technique, my grappling, and just tying up and getting my arms free. It’s the closest thing to hockey fighting we can do without skates, but it’s definitely going to help.”
“I think both are going to be very beneficial for me, and helping out in both areas that I need to improve upon.”
7/14/2007
NJMA takes 6 competitors to US Grappling's North American Combat Sports Championships
and enters the 4-man Pro Team Tournament. Special Thanks to Noah Spear for fighting in
Rick Macauley's place on our Pro Team which consisted of Kirby Farrales at 150 lbs.,
Robert Mudrak at 170 lbs., Noah Spear at 190 lbs., and Kevin Lutz at 190+ lbs. Also competing for
Team NJMA was Charlie Hosier and Rich Pietrow. All in all, we had a good showing in some very
close matches. At the end of the day, we walked away with one Gold, one Bronze, and a ton of footage
of our matches so be on the lookout for them in the near future on the eNews page.
Noah Spear - Advanced No-Gi 1st Place
Kirby Farrales - Blue Belt 3rd Place
6/23/2007
NJMA takes its largest competition team to date (20 competitors) to the delaware state games. The teams hard work and preparation paid off, we came home with 15 medals and a super fight victory.
Gene Aubry - NJMA (White Belt Heavyweight 3rd place and Masters No-Gi Beginner Heavyweight 1st place)
Richard Pietrow - NJMA (Masters No-gi Advanced Cruiserweight 2nd place)
Chris Selvoski - NJMA (Blue Belt Light Heavyweight 1st place and Int. No-gi Light Heavy 2nd place)
Omar Peralta - NJMA (Beginner No-gi Light Heavyweight 3rd place)
David Bauer - NJMA (Beginner N0-gi Super Heavyweight 2nd place)
Robert Mudrak - NJMA (Advanced No-gi Middleweight 1st place)
Thomas Slaza - NJMA (Masters no-gi Beginner Lightweight 3rd place)
Kirby Farrales - NJMA (Blue Belt Featherweight 3rd place and Advanced No-gi Featherweight 3rd place)
Robert Kristman - NJMA (Beginner No-gi Light Heavyweight 2nd place and Beginner No-gi Open 1st place)
Ross Kelly - NJMA (Intermediate No-gi Heavyweight 3rd place)
Jason Bowers -NJMA (Advanced No-gi Lightweight 3rd place)
Rick Macauley - NJMA (Superfight Champion)
6/2/2007
NJMA takes Six competitors to the South Jersey Grappling Championship, all six competitors make it ot the podium. Congrats and great work guys. below is a list of competitors and their results.
Rob Mudrak, NJMA (Advanced Welterweight 1st place)
Jason Bowers, NJMA (Advanced Welterweight 3rd place)
Kevin Lutz, NJMA (Advanced Heavyweight 1st place)
Chris Selvoski/Peter Matoccio, NJMA (Intermediate Cruiserweight 3rd place split)
Mike Olivieri, NJMA (Beginner Welterweight 3rd place)
5/10/2007
NJMA's commercial starts to air tonight, check it out and let us know what you think.
5/1/2007
Many of you will notice a familiar face around New Jersey Martial Arts more often, we would like to announce that our daytime Instructor Rick Macauley will be teaching full time starting today. This is a great day for our school, Rick is a phenomenal instructor and amazing competitor, his being arounsd the school will only make us all better.
Check out the list of his accomplishments:
2007 U.S. Grappling Pro Division Champion2007 ADCC Trials’ “Most Technical Fighter”2007 ADCC Trials Pro Division 2nd Place2007 East Coast Grappling Championships 1st Place in No-Gi Absolute Finals2005 Abu Dhabi Veteran2005 Grapplingratings.com Rated Number 1 Black Belt (tied)2005 Grapplers Quest USA Trials Pro Division Champion2005 Yamasaki Jiu-Jitsu Gear Championship Brown belt Absolute Champion2005 Diamond State Championships Absolute Champion2005 BJJ Fighter Tournament Advanced Division 1st Place2005 NC Grappling Challenge Super Fight Champion2005 GQ West Black Belt Champion2005 Bud Cup Pro Division 3rd Place2005 Pan American Brown Belt Silver Medalist2005 Pan American Brown Belt USA vs. Brazil Gold Medalist2005 Ithaca Pro Division 3rd Place2004 Pan American Purple Belt Bronze Medalist2004 Pan American Purple Belt Absolute Champion2004 USA trials Pro division third Place2004 South East grappling Championships Pro Division 3rd Place2004 Copa Atlantica Brown Belt 1st Place2004 Beast of the East 1st Place2003 Nationals 1st place Advanced Division2003 NAGA North American Grappling Championships Expert division 1st Place 2003 Arnold/Gracie World Submission Wrestling Amateur Division 1st Place2003 Copa Atlantica Purple Belt Gold Medalist2003 Copa Atlantica Purple Belt Absolute Bronze Medalist2002 Pan American Blue Belt Bronze Medalist
4/24/2007
NJMA just finished filming its very 1st commercial, it will air during this season of Ultimate Fighter 5 and Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale coach vs coach, Penn vs Pulver on Spike tv.
Special thanks to all those that took time off from work and school to participate.
3/16/2007
We will be closed today Friday March 16th due to the dangerous road conditions. NJMA will reopen Saturday March 17th at 10am.
3/6/2007
Special Thanks to Ricardo Migliarese
Ricardo keeping in the tradition of our past guest instructors taught a phenomenal class, he was very impressed with all the students at NJMA. Rick taught some really innovative positions from the half-guard. Below are some pics from last saturday.
2/28/2007
Special Guest Instructor
March 3rd, 2007
12:30 pm
(All mixed level or higher students are invited.)
Ricardo Migliarese
Gracie Jiu-jitsu Black Belt
Head Instructor Balance Studios
Biography:
Ricardo Migliarese has been training Brazilian Jiu-jitsu for 12yrs. His dedication and hard training has earned him 3x Gracie World Championship medals, 2x Pan American medals and over 20 national and world renowned championship medals.
Ricardo began training jiu-jitsu with his brother Phil at the age of sixteen. Not only is he a competitor, but a great teacher. His love of jiu-jitsu took him to the Gracie Academy in Torrance Ca. to learn the Gracie teaching methods from Master Helio Gracie. He received his black belt and teaching certification from the legendary Relson Gracie, son of Helio.
Currently, Ricardo dedicates his time in training his students whom themselves had become world champions in the art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts. He also takes great pleasure in passing his skills onto people especially Women and children, who want to learn how to defend themselves and at the same time receive a great workout.
Ricardo has been featured in many magazines including Phillyfit, Grapplers Magazine and the Philadelphia inquire. He has also made multiple TV appearances on shows like It’s your call with Lynn Doyle and Fox News. His reputation has earned him invites to teach seminars for Women’s self defense, Law enforcement agents and Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts.
- MMA LEGALIZED IN PENNSYLVANIA
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - by Mitch Gobetz - MMAWeekly.com
Pennsylvania has become the latest state to remove the ban of mixed martial arts. There was a meeting held yesterday with the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission to remove the ban, and apparently, they will begin to write the regulations.
After an online petition was submitted to the athletic commission, they decided to have a meeting about the enabling of mixed martial arts. The petition contained more than 950 electronic signatures.
Executive director Gregory Sirb confirmed the news to MMAWeekly about the athletic commission approving what they called “MMA-style events”. With Pennsylvania approving MMA, they will likely follow the unified rules in use by most athletic commissions in the United States.
Philadelphia is likely to be the largest target market in Pennsylvania for MMA due to its size, and Pittsburgh is another attractive target market.
With the UFC expanding to new markets, this could open up another venue for them to look at for a future event. The Wachovia Center in Philadelphia would likely be the first place that most promoters would target since it holds more than 12,000 people.
2/14/2007
NJMA Closed Today (Wednesday Feb.14th) due to inclement weather.
2/10/2007
Special Thanks to February's Guest Instructor
ROB SCHEIER
Rob is head instructor and owner of
www.precisionjj.com All the students at NJMA were treated to an amazing class today, we all got to see how and why Rob was able to receive the rank of Black Belt. Below are some pics from todays class.
Rob working with Scott and Ross. Covering the finer points of the takedown.
Rob Scheier (white gi) demonstrating on NJMA's head inst. Marco Perazzo (blue gi)
Some very satisfied students after Rob's class.
1/20/2007
Below is a cool video from the 1972 Olympics. The winner who went on for gold was outweighed by 180lbs. The loser went on to become a Bronze medalist at those same olympics. This is a great example of how technique and leverage can work against a much larger opponent.
1/19/2007
Special Guest Instructor
February 10th, 2007
12:30 pm
(All mixed level or higher students are invited.)
Rob Scheier
Rob is owner and Head instructor at Precision Jiu-jitsu in King of Prussia, PA. You can check out his website at
www.precisionjj.com .
Rob is Ricardo "Big Dog" Almeida's 1st black belt and has been training jiu-jitsu since 1994. He has also been teaching regularly throughout that time. His lineage is as follows:
Mitsuo "Count Koma" Maeda --> Carlos Gracie Sr. --> Carlos "Carlinhos" Gracie Jr. -->
Renzo Gracie --> Ricardo "Cachorrao" Almeida --> Rob Scheier
1/15/2007
NJMA now open on SUNDAYS
Due to popular demand NJMA has added sunday open mat. Open mat begins at noon. Get an extra day of training and join us on sundays,
12/22/2006
Kung-Fu expert 15 years experience comes in and wants to prove that his style is effective for MMA fighting. We oblige his request for a match. NJMA's blue belt Jason Patton steps up to the challenge. Enjoy the video.
12/17/2006
Guest Instructors Galore at NJMA
We at NJMA were very lucky to have two guest instructos this week,
1st lets thank our resident MMA champ Tim Carpenter for guest teaching the thursday evening MMA class. Tim shared some mount escapes that he has developed for MMA and submission grappling. Tim was eager to share his techniques with us at NJMA and we are always eager to learn.
Tim Carpenter instructing Dante and Bill on the proper way to use this escape.
Tim Carpenter demonstrating on Kevin.
2nd Guest Instructor
Brad Court shares his tournament tested techniques at NJMA. If you follow the American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu circuit you know that Brad Court has been a force on the scene for the last few years. The students at NJMA were eager to learn from such a high level competitor.
Brad started us out with some warmups, then he went into his drilling sequences, Brad stressed the importance of drilling and the skills gained by drilling.
Putting us through a hip movement drill
Brad watching Eric and Scott during a grip fighting drill
NJMA students grip fighting during Brad's class.
Brad, Marco and the guys at NJMA.
12/14/2006
NEWSFLASH:
Our online store is up, its not fully functional yet, but you can check out our selection of MMA and BJJ products by clicking on the shopping cart below:
We are currently carrying products from:
Special thanks to Brad Court and Paramount Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
I was recentely extended a special invitation to come and guest teach an advanced Brazilian Jiu-jitsu class at Paramount Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Brad Court owner and Head instructor at Paramount has been a friend and longtime training partner, it was apleasure sharing some techniques with his students. His school is growing and his students are lucky to have a great teacher and leader in Brad Court. Below you will see some fotos taken after class.
Marco with some Paramount Brazilian jiu-jitsu students after class.
Marco with Paramount Head Instructor and owner Brad Court
REMINDER:
Special Guest Instructor
December 16th, 2006
12:30 pm
(All mixed level or higher students are invited.)
Brad Court
Brad Court began training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in late 1997 after witnessing it's amazing effectiveness in the early UFCs. In the past decade Brad has traveled all over the country and world competing and training with the very best in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In 2006 Brad spent 15 days in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil training and competing at the World Championships, making it into the 3rd round in the toughest competition in the world while competing one weight class above his natural weight. Brad is also a National Champion and Pan American medalist, 3x Battle at the Beach Champion, 2x VBJJF Champion and 2x Copa Atlantica Champion.
12/12/2006
60 minutes piece on MMA and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Check out the recent piece on the popularity of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts. It was aired on CBS's 60 minutes.
12/2/2006
Team Training, Seminar and Promotions
John Wilson owner of Team Balance Affiliate Delco BJJ pictured with Marco received his Brown Belt today.
Frank Ambrifi (Brown Belt) and John Hassett (Black Belt) working technique from seminar.
Marco with Ken Primola (NJMA inst.) getting his Brown Belt.
Phil Migliarese demos a tech. on new Brown Belt Dom Cosenza
Dom Cosenza (new brown belt) with Marco.
Marco with new brown belt Pete Mondrosch
The new brown belts, after an hour of hard work waiting/resting, minutes before they are officially awarded their promotion. Congrats guys.
Another successful team training, seminar and promotion.
Marco with his instructors Phil and Rick Migliarese
Team Balance Belt Lineage
This will be the official record of all our promotions past, present and future. Please help us make this as up to date as possible. If you have received a promotion and its not reflected on the lineage page please use the contact form at the bottom to notify us of the ommision.
12/1/2006
Special Guest Instructor
December 16th, 2006
12:30 pm
(All mixed level or higher students are invited.)
Brad Court
Brad victorious at the Mundials (world championship) in Brazil.
Brad Court began training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in late 1997 after witnessing it's amazing effectiveness in the early UFCs. In the past decade Brad has traveled all over the country and world competing and training with the very best in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In 2006 Brad spent 15 days in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil training and competing at the World Championships, making it into the 3rd round in the toughest competition in the world while competing one weight class above his natural weight. Brad is also a National Champion and Pan American medalist, 3x Battle at the Beach Champion, 2x VBJJF Champion and 2x Copa Atlantica Champion.
11/30/06
Team Balance
Belt Promotion/ Team Training
Date: Saturday, December 2nd, 12-3pm
Location: 108-114 S. Bonsall St.
Between 23rd and 24th and Sansom
Phila, Pa 19103
NJMA Students, we will meet at NJMA (103 W. Main St) Sat. morning at 11:15am and carpooling to Team Balance headquarters in Philadelphia
Itinerary
Brown Belts:
Dom Cosenza, Ken Primola, Jazz Hoxha, Pete Mondrosch, John Wilson, and Tim Hart
Purple Belts:
Steve Diaz, and Derek Leyrer
Blue Belts:
Chris Romanchick, Shaun Protz, Chris Seabridge, Jimmy Rubino, Joe Fiorilli, Dan Ruben, and Corey Hill
10/28/2006
NJMA Competition Team Results
This past weekend, some of NJMA's instructors and students competed in the ADCC North American Trials. For those of you not familiar with the ADCC, it is the world championships for submisison wrestling. This year's event was special because of the introduction of an amateur event as well as the professional qualifier.
A special congrats goes out to Rick Macaulley an NJMA instructor who competed in the professional event this past weekend. Read below to see how he and the rest of Team NJMA fared.
ADCC Trial's Most Technical Fighter Award:
Over 76 kgs: Rick Macauley
Despite taking 2nd place in the professional event, the tournament officials were so impressed with Rick's grappling ability that he was awarded with the "Most Technical Fighter" award.
Men's Cruiserweight (77-87 kg):
2nd Place: Rick Macauley
On his way to placing second, Rick had the fastest submission of the day - a lighting fast 15 sec heel hook. He also defeated a member of the famed Gracie family, then later defeated Rafael Lovato, Jr., who some considered the number one seed in the tourney. Rick fought hard in the finals but could not keep his streak going, losing to Chris Moriarty.
Intermediate Mens No-gi Heavy Weight
1st Place: Kevin Lutz
Taking first in this division was a big accomplishment for Kevin. He showcased his wrestling skills in one match with some very nice take downs and positional control while proving his versatility in another, submitting his other opponent.
Others Competing:
Kirby Farrales
This was Kirby's first competition without the gi but he did not let this slow him down or phase him. He was a submission attack machine, going for triangles and guillotines. His opponent was able to play the points a bit better however, and Kirby lost a tough match on points.
Jason "Skeletor" Patton
Never one to miss a tourney, Jason again stepped up and competed. His ultimate goal is fighting MMA but Jason knows that competing and getting his Jiu-jitsu better will only help him to achieve his ultimate goal of fighting in the ring or cage. Jason had two very exciting matches, showing huge heart, determination, and also some impressive escapes. This was not to be Jasons day, losing both matches on points. Like a true warrior, Jason was back in the school the next day for class working on his game.
Rick going for the footlock on Joe Dix, ending with an impressive 15 second win
Heelhook attempt on Clark Gracie
Going for the single against Rafael Lovato jr.
In the finals against Chris Moriarty
On the Podium
10/14-15/2006
NJMA Competition Team Results
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Kevin Lutz
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2nd Place
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Intermediate - super heavyweight
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Jason Belfort
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3rd Place
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Intermediate - super heavyweight
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Jason Patton
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2nd Place
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Intermediate - featherweight
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Matt Williams
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2nd Place
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Beginner - heavyweight
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Rich Pietrow
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3rd Place
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Executive (split with Balance, Exton teammate)
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Chris Selvoski
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2nd Place
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Teens
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Gi
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Alexis Ramos
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1st Place
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Purple Belt
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Kevin Lutz
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1st Place
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White Belt (4 submissions)
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Jason Belfort
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3rd Place
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Blue Belt
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Pete Mataccio
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1st Place
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White Belt Teens
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Honorable Mention
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Kirby Farrales
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went 1 and 1, getting back into competition form.
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Ross Kelly
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lost his 1st match, stepping up to Intermediate
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Chris Selvoski
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only 15 years old, Chris elected to fight in the men’s divisions as well, showing tremendous heart.
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Jason Patton In Action (on top)
Jason Patton 2nd place
Kevin lutz 2nd place and Jason Belfort 3rd place
9/30/2006
New Blue Belts Awarded
Congrats to Bill Kasikis, Ross Kelly, Anthony Diluzio, Matt Williams and Bruce Cooper
Bill Kasikis receives Blue Belt
Ross Kelly receives Blue Belt
Anthony Diluzo receives Blue Belt
Matt Williams receives blue belt
Bruce Cooper reveives blue belt
9/23/2006
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MENS WHITE BELT
Super Feather
2nd – Roberto Oquendo – NJMA
3rd – Ken Henderson – NJMA
Feather
1st – Juan Vazquez – NJMA
Heavy
1st – Kevin Lutz – NJMA
2nd – Daniel Scheetz – NJMA
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MENS BLUE BELT
Super Feather
2nd- Mike Vizzoca – NJMA
3rd- Jason Patton – NJMA
Middle
2nd- Scott Hunning – NJMA
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MENS PURPLE BELT
Absolute
2- Alexis Ramos – NJMA
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MENS MASTER WHITE BELT
Cruiserweight
1st – Bruce Cooper - NJMA
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MENS MASTER BLUE BELT
Light Heavy
1st- Jayson Belfort – NJMA
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9/1/2006
NEW LOGO
8/19/2006
NJMA at Sportfighting 4
Congrats to Tim Carpenter Sportfighting LHW Champion.
Entering the ring
On the back
Winning Armlock
Thrill of Victory
Emotional Champion
Finally A Smile
