Multiple-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Felipe Costa, has been on the mats this week at RONIN ATHLETICS working with us on some incredible jiu-jitsu techniques.

For the past two days we’ve had the privilege of having Felipe teach both no-gi and gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu workshops as part of his Personal Training Program and the concepts, techniques, and his personalized attention has been simply outstanding.

(Check out more photos in our Felipe Costa 2008 Gallery!)

For more information about Felipe and his Personal Training Program, check out his website at FelipeCosta.com.

Obrigado, Felipe!

Big congrats to Team Ronin Athletics for stepping up to compete at the Grapplers Quest 2008 Nationals and Copa Atlantica this past Saturday and Sunday.

Some incredible talent on those mats and our team had a great time right there in the mix.

Great performances by: Fabio, Francis, Gary, Sen, Steve, Matt W, and our good friend Cyril (who took home a bronze in the 159 purple belt division).

Special nods go out to:

• - Roger Dardas for winning a bronze in the Intermediate Men’s No-Gi Middleweight division AND silver in the Men’s No-Gi Intermediate Absolute divisions.
• - David Lu for winning Silver in the Adult White Belt Featherweight division.

Many thanks to our friends and supporters including Carlo and James H. for going out, coaching, and supporting the Team!

Great job everyone for putting yourselves to the test!!!

Pics (and additional competitor’s names) coming soon!

We’ve finally gotten our hands on some video of RONIN ATHLETICS’s own, Sidney Negron, in his 7-0 victory journey @ the 2008 NAGA World Championships!

Here are two short videos of his final, gold medal matches:

• Sidney Negron - gi finals (video)
• Sidney Negron - nogi finals (video)

To see the entire 20 minute video of all 7 matches, check it out on Veoh.

Way to go, Sidney!

Huge congratulations to our latest blue belt, Vinh Hua!

Vinh has been training with RONIN ATHLETICS for under two years and was recently promoted to blue belt by our good friend and one of our BJJ Black Belt mentors, Dave Ginsberg (who Vinh also trains with in his hometown of Boston, Mass).

Congrats, Vinh!!!

I would like to congratulate all the guys from Team Ronin Athletics who competed last weekend, April 5th and 6th, at the NAGA Worlds tournament in Newark, New Jersey. We had a couple a lot of first time-ers and some of our more experienced athletes compete, notably …

Roger Dardas and Josh Bonacci both going 2-1 in Middleweight and Cruiserweight Intermediate divisions, respectively.

James Han and Zak Koonce both going 1-1 in Beginner Heavyweight and Intermediate Welterweight, respectively.

Everyone did great and learned a lot. this past NAGA was actually one of the better run events they’ve had in quite some time, so thank you to Kipp and whole NAGA crew as well.

A special nod goes out to:

Chris Froelich
- 1st place in Master’s Intermediate LightHeavyweight
- 2nd place in Men’s Intermendiate LightHeavyweight

Sidney Negron
- 1st Place in Teen’s No-Gi Beginner
- 1st Place in Teen’s Gi White Belt

Awesome job, guys!!