The Australian Girls in Gi camp was held the last weekend in January in Melbourne. Over 100 girls attended with instruction led by top female BJJ black belts. SPMA Concord had 6 students attend – Frances, Rebecca, Bridget, Elyssa, Stef and Natasha.
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The first BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) competition of the year was held in Sydney on 29th January at the Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre.
SPMA Concord’s team of 26 competitors won 5 gold, 13 silver and 4 bronze medals. The team had 16 adults and 10 kids compete and out of the 16 adults 10 of them were coloured belts! A good start to the year. Here are the results.
In the adults divisions Jeshua McPhail, Michael Ryan, Hayden McKay, Michael Su and Guy Vacarro won gold, Phil Ferraro (Double), Sam Senan, Michael Ali (Triple), Brandon Dizon, Michael Ryan and Jeremiah Diestro won Silver and Hayden McKay and Sam Senan won bronze.
In the kids divisions Amelia Roufas, Natasha Iacono (Double), Anthony Roufas (Double) and Jayda Lafleur won silver and Jake Herrera (Double), Amelia Roufas, Damian Iacono, Keegan Lafleur, Emma Hunt (Double) and James Hunt won bronze.
About 45 BJJ Black and Brown Belts from Sydney and NSW met up for a training session at Lange’s MMA on 28th January. It was a day of sharing technique, rolling and catching up! Anthony Lange and SPMA Concord Chief Instructor Anthony Perosh taught some technique to the group.
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I ran end of year gradings at half of my affiliates this year in Sydney (Minchinbury, Macquarie Park, Kemps Creek), Nowra and Brisbane. Well done to all the students who graded. And a big congratulations to all the instructors of the affiliate schools for being great coaches!
The best Christmas Party ever! SPMA Concord celebrated their 2016 Christmas party with 175 students, family and friends at all you can eat Korean BBQ in Croydon. Everyone had a great time enjoying good company and good food and ate until their heart’s (stomach’s!) content.
At the end of the lunch the annual awards were presented with the following well deserved winners.
Adult Competitor of the Year: Sam Senan. Sam won 5 out of 5 gold medals in white belt divisions this year and was the number 2 ranked white belt in the whole country.
Adult Most Improved of the Year: Philip Kim. Phil has shown that even an advanced student can be Most Improved of the year. At the World Championships this year he defeated the reigning No gi World Champion, he won his MMA debut in convincing fashion and is now a coach at SPMA Concord.
Kids Competitor of the Year: Guy Vaccaro. Guy started the year with second and thirds and finished the year with gold medals.
Kids Most Improved of the Year: Amelia Roufas. Amelia’s technique and attitude towards training is second to none. She also won her last BJJ competition.
Congratulations to all the winners! I am proud of you all.
After the presentation we had 3 enormous cakes which were demolished in record time. Thank you to Phil Kim who organised the cakes from Christophe’s Patisserie. Big thank you to Michael Bray from the Pine Inn who donated 12 bottles of wine to our party.
I want to thank all of my staff (John, Sari, Adam, Phil and Nobby) who helped organise it and make the day run smoothly. They have made the entire year run smoothly.
Thank you to all the great students of SPMA Concord who are the reason we do what we do. Let’s make 2017 the best ever!
And thank you to their family and friends who came and celebrated with us.
We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Anthony Perosh
SPMA Concord
Owner and Chief Instructor
What a night in Sydney on 7th December at the BJJ (Brazilian Jiu jItsu) grading at SPMA Concord. A night to remember! The end of year grading is an event to celebrate many milestones with your fellow students, team mates and friends. There were a lot of highlights!
I awarded Tony Pycroft and Sari Redzeposki their BJJ Black Belt. Both are very well deserving and inspirational students. They followed different paths to achieve Black Belt. Tony started BJJ in 2009, has won many competitions at all belt levels including Australian and Pan Pacific titles and is a great coach. And what many people don’t know is that he lives 100km from SPMA Concord! Sari started BJJ in 2002, has also won many competitions at all belt levels including Australian and Pan Pacific titles and is a great coach. Sari is the first female from SPMA to receive her BJJ Black Belt. They are both great students, competitors and coaches and have a passion for BJJ. I am proud of both of them.
Congratulations to all the new coloured belts! Andrew Mills, Jeff Micallef, David Greenup and Michael DeMarco were awarded their BJJ Purple Belt. Nathan Maitre, Ante Jaksic, Joseph Frangos Young and Michael Ali were awarded their BJJ Blue Belt.
Congratulations to all the other 50 students who graded for their stripes from White Belt 1st stripe to Purple Belt 2nd stripe.
The grading started with new black belt promotions and ended with Black Belt degrees being presented. Dean Vella and Victor Fox were awarded their 2nd Degree BJJ Black Belt and Steve Micallef was awarded his 1st Degree BJJ Black Belt.
The technique demonstrated on the night from all the students who graded was flawless (Aim for perfection!).
Special congrats goes to Adam Assuncao who demonstrated 50 Blue Belt techniques, 60 Purple Belt techniques, 50 Brown Belt techniques and 40 Black Belt techniques (200 in total) on the night to be awarded his stripe on his Brown Belt. And he did it flawlessly and by memory!
We had 10 black belts in attendance and 42 students who were Blue Belt and above turn up to grade and support. And let’s not forget the 50 white belts in attendance. It was a great attendance for our end of year grading.
A very big thank you goes to my great staff and great coaches Sari Redzeposki, Adam Assuncao, Philip Kim and Nobby Kuandyk. They are passionate about teaching like I am and want everyone to do their best.
Thank you to everyone who attended to make the night extra special.
See you on the mat (but I will see you first at our Christmas party!).
Anthony Perosh
In the past 6 months I have taught BJJ and MMA gradings and seminars in Sydney (Minchinbury, Macquarie Park, Kemps Creek), Griffith, Dubbo, Nowra, Brisbane, Mackay and Rockhampton. Well dont to all the students who graded. And a big congratulations to all the instructors of the affiliate schools for being great coaches!
SPMA Concord (Sydney) held BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), Muay Thai Kickboxing and Kids BJJ gradings. Congratulations to the 170 students that graded. Extra special congratulations to new BJJ Brown Belts Ersoy Kumsuz and Philip Kim, new Purple Belt Ethan Zahra and new BJJ Blue Belts Malcolm O’Neill and Paul Calvisi, new Thai Kickboxing Blue T-shirts Nobby Kuandyk and Christopher Alali and new Kids BJJ Green belt 1st stripe Jake Herrera.
All of my BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) students in my Sydney gym SPMA Concord must know the following brief history. It is very important to know where you came from.
Look at that photo from the BJJ competition and seminar on the 10th-11th September in Melbourne! Rigan Machado is in the middle and is a BJJ 8th Degree Coral Belt. On his left is John Will (5th degree), on his right is myself (4th degree) and on John’s left is Elvis (3rd degree). Everyone else are BJJ black belts under John Will.
John Will is the first BJJ black belt to be promoted by one of the Machado brothers. Rigan Machado promoted John to the rank of black belt. John then started the Will-Machado BJJ Australia Association.
Rigan’s brother Carlos Machado promoted both myself to the rank of black belt. I started my BJJ career under Anthony Lange (3rd degree) who teaches in Manly.
Every year in September is the South Pacific BJJ Championships of all Will-Machado schools around Australia and New Zealand. The competition (and whole weekend) is known as “The Gathering”.
The photo was taken the day after the competition at the Rigan Machado seminar. Rigan is teaching a BJJ seminar at SPMA Concord this weekend. See the other related Facebook post about it. Don’t miss out!
When SPMA Concord students register with the AFBJJ to compete they choose the team Will-Machado.
I would love to see a big turn out of SPMA Concord students next year in Melbourne at The Gathering.
I received my 4th degree BJJ Black Belt from my coach Carlos Machado. Carlos presented it to me at the end of his BJJ seminar which he ran at my martial arts school on 17th April. It is a great honour to receive this rank and to also receive it from Carlos Machado. It was even more special receiving it in front of 50 of my students.
I love BJJ and I am even more passionate about it now than when I first started back in 1996. I recently retired from MMA fighting. My goal now is to get better every day and pass on what I know to all of my students and make them achieve their goals!
See you on the mat.
Anthony Perosh
