Team Perosh student Peter Mrsnik competed in a Muay Thai Kickboxing Development Day held on Saturday 22nd April in Sydney.
Peter made his Muay Thai debut in Sydney at the age of 50 and scores a decision win! Peter fought an opponent 17 years younger. Peter executed a great game plan on the day and got the decision win. Well done Peter!
SPMA Concord won a bag of medals and team trophies in 3 BJJ (Brazilian Jiu jItsu) comps in 3 weekends in Sydney.
SPMA Concord’s team of 35 students won 12 gold, 16 silver and 5 Bronze medals at the Sydney Cup BJJ Circuit competition on Sunday 30th April. It was one of our club’s best ever performance at a single event. On top of that our club is part of the Will-Machado team and our team won 1st place for adults and 3rd place for Kids. Outstanding effort!
Gold medals were won by Steve Rudic (Double), Grant Barlow, Frances Bavaro, Sam Senan, Rebecca Beuk, Darren Chee, Zack Kybali, Guy Vaccaro, John Kim, Axl Howie and Sam Cassanitti.
Silver medals were won by Michael Su, Michael Lai (Double), Michael De Marco, Steve Rudic, Grant Barlow, Ethan Zahra, Frances Bavaro, Cooba Watkins, Mike Ryan, Zack Kybali (Double), Mason Elias, Guy Vaccaro, Kyzar Jing and Amelia Roufas.
Bronze medals were won by Michael Su, Michael Ali, Jakib Hossain, Damian Iacono and Natasha Iacono.
SPMA Concord’s team of 14 students won 6 gold, 5 silver and 8 bronze medals at the Grappling Industries competition on 7th May.
Gold to Nurbolat Kuandyk, Ante Jaksic, Amelia Roufas, Kobe Harb and Sam Cassaniti (double). Silver to Kobe Harb, Natasha Iacono (double), Anthony Roufas and Axl Howie. Bronze to Nurbolat Kuandyk, John Biona (double), Damian Iacono (double), Anthony Roufas, Alexei Fotheringham and Axl Howie.
Team SPMA won the team trophy for Kids Gi and Kids Nogi.
SPMA Concord’s team of 23 students won 6 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze medals at the NSW BJJ Autumn Cup competition on 14th March.
Gold to Michael De Marco, Sam Senan (Double), Frances Bavaro, Rebecca Beuk and Jeremiah Diestro. Silver to Steve Rudic, Daniel Kwasnica, Zack Kybali, Rebecca Beuk, Kyzar Jing, Kobe Harb, Amelia Roufas, Emma Hunt, Jayda LaFleur and Axl Howie. Bronze to Zack Kbayli, Asad Malik, Jake Herrera, Keegan LaFleur, Natasha Iacono and Sam Cassaniti.
The Will-Machado team came 3rd in Adults Gi and second in Adults Nogi teams trophies.
Well done to all SPMA Concord students who competed. And a big thank you to all you came to support.
SPMA Concord went 3 wins 2 losses in two MMA shows in Sydney in March.
At Urban Fight Night in Sydney on Saturday 4th March Philip Kim and Adam Assunção won their matches by Rear Naked choke in the first round and Joey Belfiore lost by KO in the 3rd round. They all put in fantastic performances. Every single one of them was a professional pre-fight, during the fight and post fight. They were humble in both victory and defeat.
At Brace for War in Sydney on Saturday 18th March Nurbolat Kuandyk won his MMA match by Triangle choke in the second round. Andrew Chapman lost by RNC in the second round in his Welterweight title match after dominating the first round. SPMA Moorebank student Byron Cowell lost his match by Guillotine choke in the first round.
I am proud of everyone’s performance on the night before, during and after the fight.
Big thank you to cornermen Greg Criticos and Jeshua McPhail for their help on the night getting the boys ready.
And what a turn out of support! Over 500 SPMA Concord students, family and friends come to support across the two shows!
You can check out all the videos of the fights by going to the fighter’s FB pages.
We win as a team, lose as a team and celebrate as a team!
SPMA Concord had a fantastic perofrmance in BJJ (Brazilian Jiu jItsu) competions across Sydney in February and March.
SPMA Concord had 7 students compete at the BJJ pro gi trials on Sunday 19th February in Sydney. They won 3 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals. Frances Bavaro, Jeshua McPhail and Natasha Iacono won gold medals, Guy Vaccaro and Amelia Roufas won silver medals and Frances Bavaro (Triple) and Damian Iacono won bronze medals. Extra big congrats to Frances Bavaro who won 1 gold and 3 bronze medals in 4 divisions after 8 wins and 3 losses! A stella performance!
SPMA Concord’s team of 21 students won 6 gold, 8 silver and 7 bronze medals at the Sydney BJJ Cup on 4th March in Sutherland. Stefania Boitana (double gold), Guy Vaccaro, Michael Ali, Kyzar Jing and Kobe Harb won gold. Steve Rudic, Ante Jaksic, Joseph Frangos Young, John Biona, Nelson Mayan, Amelia Roufas, Kobe Harb and Sam Cassaniti won Silver medals. Jeremiah Diestro, Natasha Iacono, Damian Iacono, Axl Howie, Anthony Roufas, Emma Hunt and James Hunt won Bronze medals.
SPMA Concord had 4 students win 2 gold and 1 bronze medals at the IBJJF Sydney Open on 26th March. Frances Bavaro won gold in her weight division and bronze in the open blue belt division. Rebecca Beuk won gold in her white belt weight division.
Well done to all the competitors!
A big day of BJJ (Brazilian Jiu JItsu) competition at the Grappling Industries Competition on Sunday 12th February. SPMA Concord students had over 90 matches in total. They won 4 Gold, 5 Silver and 9 Bronze medals. Gold to Steve Rudic, Jeshua McPhail, Stef Boitano and Guy Vaccaro. Silver to Jeshua McPhail, Rebecca Beuk, Nobby Kuandyk and Anthony Roufas (Double). Bronze to Nobby Kuandyk, Steve Rudic, Hayden McKay, Ante Jaksic, John Biona (Double), Leo Yang, Damian Iacono and Axl Howie. Big congrats to all the competitors!
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.
Well done to Tyson Pedro on his win in his UFC debut in Melbourne! I got to train a session with him before his fight. Got to train with fellow UFC veteran James Te Huna too. Thanks to Shaun Sullivan from Lions High Performance Centre for inviting me to do some BJJ wirh him.
My walkout song of 25 my mma fights made the Top 25 list of UFC fighter walk out songs. Check out the link!
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.
Yesterday I received this gift from the UFC! It was a great and fun ride to fight and win in the UFC. Thanks to Tom Wright, Peter Kloczko and everyone at the UFC and UFC Australia. I miss it already but now I will concentrate on teaching and helping my students fulfill their goals!
