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A history of RCJ Machado BJJ in Australia

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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.

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I received my 4th degree BJJ Black Belt

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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

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Affiliate gradings December 2015

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A busy but great month. I attended and ran 9 BJJ gradings and seminars at 9 SPMA affiliate schools in 5 cities and 2 states. Big congrats to all the school owners and head instructors for their coaching as all their students smashed it. And big congrats to all the students who trained hard and graded. Here is a list of schools who graded: Mackay MMA, Advance Martial Arts, Dubbo BJJ, IMC Kemps Creek, Macquarie University, Kemp’s Thai Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts, RMA & Total Fitness, Elite Martial arts Australia and Rhino MMA Rockhampton.

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SPMA gradings December 2015

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Congratulations to the 150 students at Concord and Moorebank who graded in Kids BJJ, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai Kickboxing. At Concord new BJJ black belts were awarded to Richard Arpad, Luke Martin and Daniel Keating and 2nd Degree Black Belt to Ben Power. At Moorebank Michael Acolentaba was awarded his BJJ Brown Belt and in Muay Thai Byron Cowell and Luke Standing were awarded their Black T-Shirts. Check out all news and photos on SPMA Concord and SPMA Moorebank Facebook fan pages.

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I awarded my 12th BJJ Black Belt

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I presented Shaher Khan with his BJJ Black Belt on 7th August. He is the 12th student at SPMA to achieve this rank. Shaher started his training in 2007. Since then he has won many Australian and Pan Pacific BJJ titles from white to brown belt and has qualified fore the World Pro Gi Championships twice beating black belts.  He has yet to medal at the World Championships but it is only a matter of time. Thanks to everyone who attended the presentation.

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Jean-Jacques Machado BJJ seminar July 2015

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SPMA hosted 7th degree BJJ Coral Belt Jean Jacques Machado at the Concord school on 4th July. Jean Jacques is the brother of Carlos Machado. Carlos is the coach of SPMA chief instructors Anthony Perosh and Elvis Sinosic. Check out the SPMA Concord and SPMA Moorebank Facebook fan pages for all the photos.

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Affiliate schools BJJ gradings June 2015

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And a big congratulations to all of my affiliate schools in Griffith, Mackay, Brisbane, Macquarie Uni, Michnchinbury and Kemps Creek who graded in BJJ in June and July. I started off in Griffith at RMA and then off to Mackay MMA, Advance Martial Arts in Brisbane, Macquarie Uni in Ryde, Elite Martial Arts in Minchinbury and IMC at Kemps Creek. Students from Rhino MMA in Yeppoon and Rockhamptom travelled to Mackay to grade. Check out the photos below.

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SPMA BJJ, Muay Thai Kickboxing and Kids BJJ gradings in June

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Congratulations to all my students at SPMA Concord and Moorebank who graded in BJJ, Muay Thai Kickboxing and Kids BJJ. Stand outs included Matthew Hunt and Dan Stoll receiving their Brown Belt in BJJ, Andrew Mills and Joey Belfiore receiving their Purple T-Shirts in Thai Kickboxing and Maria Topic receiving her Green Belt in Kids BJJ. Check out the SPMA Concord and SPMA Moorebank Facebook fan pages for all the photos.

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UFC Press Conference

Australia’s toughest teacher: 42 year old instructor Perosh in UFC clash

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Here is an article from MMA Kanvas about my fight in May at UFC Adelaide, teaching at my two Sydney MMA gyms and mental toughness.

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Affiliate gradings

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I ran BJJ gradings and BJJ and MMA seminars at my affiliate schools in Kemps Creek, Minchinbury, Macquarie University, Girraween, Brisbane, Mackay, Yeppoon and Rockhamptom. I also awarded a BJJ purple belt to Mackay MMA head of school David Garnham. All the students at all the affiliate schools did fantastic. That is a great credit to the students for putting in the hard work and also the instructors for teaching them the techniques of my syllabus.