SBGi Spring Camp 2005 info!!!

[smartmonkey]

Spring Camp 2005 is coming soon!
Date: March 24th - 28th (Thurs- Monday)

Location: Portland OR (Chapman Elementary same as last camp)

Instruction:

Thursday March 24th: 6-9pm BJJ class with SBGi Coaches and open Q & A at the Portland Gym.

Friday March 25th: 7-9pm BJJ class with John Frankl Portland Gym.

Saturday March 26th: Training from 10am - 5pm with a lunch break.

This camp will be taught with the same session plan as last Camp. So students will break up into smaller groups for a better student to teacher ratio, and everyone will hav a chance to participate in ALL sessions. As well as several sessions where the whole group works together.

On schedule for Saturday. . PAW warm ups, the art of the slow roll, BJJ for MMA with Kavanagh, off road clinch with Adam & Paul, taking your Jits game to the next level with John Frankl & Chris Haueter, and a final section on the Inquiry coaching method which will feature some experiental drills with Matt Thornton.

Saturday evening at 8:30 pm SBGi dinner banquet and awards ceremony. Location to be announced at Camp. This dinner will be open to all SBGi members and Camp attendees.

Sunday March 27th: Training from 10am - 2pm with a short lunch break.

On schedule Sunday. . .PAW warm ups & slow roll, BJJ with Haueter & Chapman, the pry bar and vale tudo guard with Matt & Steve Whittier, and Judo clinch, grips, sweeps, and applications with Andy Ryan.

4pm - 8pm SBG Gorilla Cup submission tournament! Camp particpants compete or observe for free. All members welcome to compete!

Sunday 10pm: After hours SBGi party. . .location TBA.

Monday March 28th: 11am - 5pm with a lunch The first ever Coaching For Performance class! The C4P program. This is the cutting edge program of SBGi, that is designed to help take all SBGi staff to the next level! See the bottom of this announcment for details.

7-9 PM BJJ open mat Q & A with the SBGi BJJ Coaches! A friendly, informal class that will follow the inquiry method, and is open to all Camp members.

The Coaches on schedule: 5 BJJ Blackbelts, and 11 world class Coaches and Instructors! + more special guests!!

Chris Haueter (BJJ Blackbelt/SBGi Coach), Luis Gutierrez (SBGi VP), John Frankl (BJJ Blackbelt/SBGi Coach), Tom Oberhue (SBGi RD & BJJ Blackbelt), Michael Chapman (SBGi Coach & BJJ Blackbelt), Adam Singer (SBGi RD), Paul Sharp (SBGi RD), John Kavanagh (SBGi RD), Matt Thornton (BJJ Blackbelt/ SBGi Founder), Steve Whittier (SBGi Coach), Andy Ryan (10 Years undefeated Irish Judo champion, bronze medal winner British open) *subject to change.

Camp prices:

Pre-registration by march 1st at latest

All week Thur-Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon = 235. SBGi members

275. non members

OR Just the weekend $195 SBGi members $225 non members

C4P class only: free with Camp, or 55. by itself (SBGi members only)

Gorilla Cup: free with Camp, or 25. by itself - - - - - - - - After March 1st:

All week Thur-Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon

SBGi members = 275.

non members = 325.

Register NOW by calling Sarah Toll Free at: 1-888-888-2850

Discount hotel rates available. Contact Sarah for info and reservations.

Sign up now! Online registration will be available shortly. . .

[Szczepankiewicz]

Smartmonkey,

Can I copy this announcement to other forums?

Spanky

[smartmonkey]

Please do.

[bodhisattva]

For anyone that has never been to a Straight Blast Gym camp, I'd like to say a word about them.

When I showed up the first day, I didn't know anyone. But I saw people loaning gear, offering tape, stretching out and chatting freely..doing cartwheels and most importantly : chasing each other around like stupid little kids laughing their asses off - big muscular adults transformed into rascals.

Training starts. Guest speakers have their time well planned. Each speaker/instructor knows how much time he has, knows what he wants to teach, and has it all very well planned out. Everything is hands on - everything is trained a lot - and everyone is ENCOURAGED to think critically and ask questions. Learned incredible amounts about nutrition, strength/fitness, ground/clinch/standup. Not the usual stuff, either. Everything was applicable, but everything was somehow new.

Lunchtime - I didn't have anything to wear but my gi - I would have to run up to my hotel room and grab clothes if I wanted to join the others. No sweat. Some guy I don't know loans me a nice adidas top and bottom so that I can hang with the crowd. Wow. Thanks.

It was like this the whole trip. After the training, we went out and took a tour of portland together - having fun like stupid little kids again, too. At the end of that, when my group realized the busses weren't running to the hotel anymore (it was too late) we got a cab and he paid most of the fare..he wouldn't hear otherwise..so I got the tip.

When Matt awards a belt to his students, it's totally in line with the entire spirit of play that SBG promotes. First, the new blue belt is distracted "Hey Jim, pull a side control on mark for me, I want to show everyone something new" Jim does it. Why shouldn't he, what should he be suspecting? And then, from behind "whap". He takes a belt across the ass with a sound like thunder.

What a great freaking way to award belts. What was up with the old method? Remember? All the teachers lined up like an episode of Kung Fu? All grim and serious in their duty.

The training? Yeah. There was tons of that. And it was awesome training. I got so much training I didn't want anymore by 5pm. But it isn't just the training that went on. It was tribe. Tribe is good stuff. The people were all ages, all genders, and all really fun. People said what they were thinking that moment, with little concern. There were very few roles being played out..people of all types and mindset just kind of relaxed together and enjoyed each other for a change.. Like pictures of lions lounging amongst livestock. If you think I'm being a little over-excited here, that's cool. But I don't get that vibe from entire groups of people often, and I was happy to be there. I didn't want to leave, at all, when Sunday came.

[CKD]

It sounds like you got some amazing mma training during that camp. How was the vale tudo guard session? Any good recomendations you could make for us on the board?

[bodhisattva]

It's been a couple of years. Last spring camp my back was all screwed up.
It's still a little screwed up. But getting much better. (hopeful fingers crossed)

Recommendations?

Pizza Schmiza if you like gourmet pizza.

Powell's books if you're a reader.

Any local beer.

Hanging out in the NW quadrant with nothing to do but watch people go by, and pop into shops and pubs for a look-about.

Convince someone in the party you are walking with that the waterfountain he just drank out of is a bird bath, and that the homeless in the area use them as urinals and ass-baths after they crap in a dumpster.

Paul got me with that one, and, joking or not, I'm pretty sure it's true anyway - so don't drink out of em, Charlie!