Jason Hall with the legendary BJJ coach, Marcello Monteiro

Guys,
 
Marcello Monteiro will be doing a special seminar April 1st at our Charleston location.

This is a Thursday evening.
 
Please pre-register as soon as possible.  He will be taking 20$ deposits to hold your spot for the seminar and we can take this ASAP.
 
I hope to see you guys there!

1000 tournament pics linked on my facebook page courtesy of Heavy Leather Gear http://bit.ly/94w2zO

I am still sorting the slightly sloppy brackets. If you have anything to add, please do so. The full results should be up soon

Purple Belt and Above:
1. Evan Williams – Columbus/Jorge Gurgel
2. Ben Cook – Columbus/Jorge Gurgel
3. Andrew Prickett – Marcello Monteiro

Purple/ Blue Belt Absolute
1. Ben Cook – Columbus/Jorge Gurgel
2. Evan Williams – Columbus/Jorge Gurgel
3. Dustin Ware – Columbus/Jorge Gurgel

Blue Belt

149 And Below
1. Tim Miller – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
2. Jeb Tonkin – GZ Morgantown
3. David Cloptin – GZ Morgantown

165-179
1. Gil Garza – Huntington/ Gurgel
2. Tom Kozlowski – Columbus/Gurgel

180 lbs. to 194.9 lbs.
1. Kyle Vass – GZ Morgantown
2. Adam Prickett – Marcello Monteiro
3. Tom Kowslowski – Gurgel/ Columbus

Blue Belt Heavyweight
1. Jason McGuire – Gurgel/ Huntington
2. Gustavo Peixoto – SVT
3. Joe Bogard – Gurgel/ Columbus
3. Eric Halstead – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro

White Belt

149 And Under
1. Ryan Rooney – GZ Morgantown
2. Shaun Caraway – SVT
3. Gary Thompson

150-164.9
1. Jason Brown – SVT
2. Daniel Belcher – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
3. Doug Horchler – Gurgel/ Huntington

165-179
1. Derek McWilliams – GZ Morgatown
2. James Smith – Marcello Monteiro/ Tribe
3. Michael Pamfilis

180-194.9
1. Germaine Johnson – Marcello Monteiro/ Tribe
2. Drew Bassett – Marcello Monteiro
3. Burns Diamond – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro

195 and Above
1. Travis Cowles – GZ Morgantown
2. RJ Hedrick – Marcello Monteiro/ Tribe
3. TJ Adkins – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro

No Gi Beginner

149 And Below
1. Derek Wright
2. Jimmy Lobo
3. Gary Thompson

150-164.9
1. Michael Lovejoy – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
2. Ali Alasker
3. Doug Horchler – Huntington/ Jorge Gurgel

180 lbs. to 194.9 lbs.
1. Mike Snider – Dragon’s Den
2. Drew Bassett – Marcello Monteiro
3, Don Quinn – 10th Planet Morgantown

Heavyweight
1. Walt Ramsey – 10th Planet Morgantown
2. Patrick Stevens – Dragon’s Den

No Gi Beginner Absolute
1. Michael Lovejoy – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
2. Walt Ramsey – 10th Planet Morgantown

No Gi Intermediate
165-179
1. Zac Gobul – Dragon’s Den
2. Jeremy Lane – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
3. Ryan Anderson – 10th Plant Morgantown

180 lbs. to 194.9 lbs. (combines with 165-179)
1. Zac Gobul – Dragon’s Den
2. Matt Thompson – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro

No Gi Advanced
1. Kyle Vass – GZ Morgantown
2. Josh Fowler – GZ Morgantown
3. Travis Cowles – Gz Morgantown

Kids & Teen Divisions – No Gi

6-8yr Olds
1. Cayden Dexter – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
2. Ian Sears – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
3. Dalton Crabtree – SVT

9-11yr Olds
1. John Rowland – Dragon’s Den
2. Alex Tatum – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
3. Bobby Bailey – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro/ Jason Hall

12-14yr Olds
1. Chris Stokes – Kruse MMA
2. Tyler Cottrell – GZ Morgantown
3. Zachary Miller – SVT

15-17yr Olds
1. Derek Wright – Dragon’s Den
2. Evan Cameron
3. Kasey Bowles

Kids & Teen Divisions – Gi

6-8 Beginners
1. Cayden Dexter – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
2. Ian Sears – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro
3. Michael Simpson – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro

6-8 Intermediate
1. Dalton Crabtree – SVT
2. Robert Rowland – Dragon’s Den

9-11yr Olds
1. Bobby Bailey – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro/ Jason Hall
2. Brett Wimmer – Butch Hiles BJJ/ Marcello Monteiro/ Jason Hall
3. John Rowland – Dragon’s Den

12-14yr Olds
1. AJ Stephens – SVT
2. Chris Stokes – Kruse MMA
3. Jordyn Stephens – SVT

15-17yr Olds
1. Jimmy Lobo
2. Derek Wright – Dragon’s Den
3. Evan Cameron

Kids & Teen Team Winners:
1. Butch Hiles BJJ (28)
2.  Dragon’s Den (16)
3.  SVT – Stephens Vale Tudo (14)

Double Elimination Gi & No Gi Tournament (BJJ & Submission Wrestling)

Date:  Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time:  Tournament 12pm, Referee Meeting at 11am, Competitor Rules meeting at 11:30am
Cost:  Only 30$ and you can compete in as many divisions as you want, 20$ for children
Format: Gi and No Gi DOUBLE ELIMINATION, Absolute divisions, and special matches
Location: 410 Summers Street, Charleston, WV
 
As always, we want all of our competitors to have as much fun as possible.  This is going to be a smaller tournament, as far as location goes, but it’s going to be big in terms of matches.  Because there is no additional cost, each competitor has the chance to compete a minimum of 6 times if they did all divisons in the gi and no gi tounnaments (regular divisions and absolute divisions).
 
There will be children’s, teens, women’s, and men’s divisions and the
weight classes for both gi and no gi will be as follows:
 
Adult Men:
149.9 & Below)
150 lbs. to 164.9 lbs.
165 lbs. to 179.9 lbs.
180 lbs. to 194.9 lbs.
195 lbs. to 209.9 lbs.
210 lbs. to 224.9 lbs.
225 lbs. & Above
 
Adult Women:
135 & Under (Lightweight)
136 & Over (Middleweight)
 
Weight classes for teens will be divided at the tournament but the age brackets will be divided as follows:
Kids 6-8, 9-11, Teens 12-14, 15-17
 
Experience levels for adult competitors will be white, blue, and
purple and above for the adult gi and the no-gi tournament will be as follows:
No-Gi experience levels
Beginner No Gi:  (Less than a year experience. No wrestlers with ANY experience, at any level of competition.  The beginner class is for beginners only)
Intermediate No Gi: (1-3 years exp.)
Advanced No Gi (3 years +)
 
Weigh-ins to be held Friday (12pm-10pm, unless special arrangements are made) and Saturday 9am-11am
 
Please let me know if there are any question,
Butch Hiles
www.advancedbkj.com
304-549-9370

Hotel Info

Best Western is giving all competitors a big price break. They have a
great facility that is just across the parking lot from the tournament
location:

Best Western Charleston Plaza WV Hotel – www.charlestonplazahotel.com
1010 Washington Street East, East Charleston – (304) 345-9779

Just mention the tournament and your rate will be dropped more than 30$!!!

Tournament website:  http://www.advancedbkj.com/february-20-2010

On Saturday, 1/9/10, Butch Hiles taught another great seminar in Logan, WV.  The Logan guys are top notch and it’s always a pleasure seeing and training with them.  This also marked their one year anniversary at their location, so it was a great day to celebrate for us all.

Butch Hiles promoted three new blue belts and also promoted many long time members with new stripes on their belts.  Congrats to everyone!!!

Yesterday I got to the gym early to try and hang some merchandise back on the racks, after taking it with me to my seminar the following day.  So, I had some time alone in the gym and I looked around at all I had accomplished. 

Without trying to cloud my mind with all the things I still have to do, I tried to just admire the things I had done already and where I had come from.  Then, suddenly in walked three new people that were eager to train for the first time.  However, this didn’t really make me change all the things I was thinking about because this is actually one of the things I am most thankful for.  Every time someone new comes into the gym I have yet another opportunity to help them accomplish their goals, whatever those goals may be, and I am truly thankful to be in that position.

After showing our new members around, and giving them a quick lesson, I returned back upstairs to find that many more people had already arrived and had started their open mat session in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.  Since they were already practicing, I sat down and really got a chance to appreciate their skill level and how far they had come in the time they had been there.  It’s amazing to see their thought process, skill level, and control while practicing.  We truly have an amazing gym and amazing members that are only going to get better as time goes on.

After watching them all compete, laugh, and have fun while practicing, I started to realize how things went much deeper then what building we were in or what new moves people might have been doing.  Everyone out there was truly a friend of mine as well as a friend to everyone else in the gym that day.  We had all actually been out to dinner, a movie, a party, or another event at one time or another.  In fact, most of our wives and/or children are also friends and without the gym none of this would probably have happened.

For a long time now, I have wanted to implement some goal setting for each and every person in our gym.  The reason is, we all need to stay motivated and the best way to do that is through accomplishing personal goals and milestones again and again.  If you aren’t already doing this, you truly aren’t getting enough out of your training.
 
In every aspect of our lives it’s important for us to set goals, because having a goal enables us to focus our energy on devising ways to achieve it. When someone makes a decision and begins focusing on achieving a specific goal (and even better in a specific period of time), the powerful subconscious mind goes to work and begins playing with ideas and developing strategies of various ways to bring about the successful completion of the goal.
 
When you set yourself a goal both your conscious and subconscious start working on it and begin to develop an action plan. You will find you begin asking yourself questions about what needs to be done to enable you to reach your goal. You may find yourselves coming up with amazing ideas and solutions to problems or obstacles that have been in the way of achieving your goal.
 
Solutions and ideas that you are surprised you ever thought of may start popping into your mind. Our subconscious is an extremely powerful tool.
 
The more often you remind yourself of your goal, the more your mind will work on ways for you to achieve it. Some people find answers come to them when they are asleep and dreaming. Have you ever noticed that there is no correlation between being wealthy and having a high IQ or a university degree? If there were, every doctor and university graduate would be wealthy, and as statistics show, most of them end up in the same situation as 95% of the population.
 
The main thing that the majority of independently wealthy people have in common is that they have set goals for themselves and achieved them. They invest time in reading and learning about wealth creation and are happy to learn from other people’s mistakes and experiences, as well as their own.
 
They set goals, and realise that they will be far better able to achieve them if they familiarise themselves with the ways in which other people acted and the things that others have done to succeed. Wealthy people create wealth by carefully utilising the income that they have available to them to their best advantage.
 
They know that working harder and longer hours is not the way to achieve financial freedom, instead they have to utilise what they have, and make it grow.
 
Setting Goals. When you begin to work out your goals you need to make them as specific as possible. A vague idea or generalization like “I want to lose weight and be in shape” is not enough. You need to be much more detailed.
 
“I want to lose 20 pounds in two months.
 
I will make sure I do 30 minutes of cardio 3-4 times a week and I will stop eating sweets at night.  I will do research and come up with a better way of eating and stick to this for the rest of my life.  I may even add a weight lifting program 1-2 days per week to give me more muscle, so that I can burn more fat.
 
I will join a gym close to my house to make sure that I can workout properly and I will also talk to a personal trainer to make sure I get the proper advise, and guidelines, to make sure I accomplish my goal.” This is a specific goal, and you could add a lot more to it.
 
Because your goal is specific your mind immediately begins to ask questions such as “What are the best gyms to join? How can I change my diet and still be happy and healthy? Can I afford the gym and a personal trainer or do I need to cut back somewhere else?”
 
Specific goals help you to create specific, realistic action plans and as the old saying goes, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. You will find that if you write down your goals on a piece of paper, and put it in a prominent position, so that you will read it often, your subconscious as well as your conscious mind will start asking questions and coming up with answers, and you will find that you have already begun to take the necessary steps to achieving your goal.
 
It is helpful to have a series of goals, ranging from daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, ten yearly and thirty to forty yearly. You can always refine and change your goals as time goes on and situations change. You may find that it is easier to start at the 40-year mark, and then work backwards. Try to work out what steps would be needed to achieve your 40-year goal, and spread them out over the different time spans, to what you would need to achieve to end up with the final result. Try to make your goals realistic and achievable.
 
Do not set a goal that is too hard. Set lots of small, easily achievable goals and work step by step to achieve your road to success. Stay positive. Believe in yourself and your abilities to succeed, even if other people patronise you or try to put you off, or tell you there is no point. Setting and achieving goals help you to create a stronger character. It is always helpful to remember that our brain cannot entertain both positive and negative thoughts at the same time.
 
If you stay positive you will dispel negative thought patterns. Even if you come across little obstacles that get in the way of your goals, don’t give up. Focus on finding a solution. Rather than focusing on the problem utilise a positive response.
 
Focusing on finding solutions enables you to put your brain to work, to find ways around things. If you just see an obstacle as a problem and just accept that life has dealt you a blow, and let it stop you in your tracks, then you will never learn and grow.
 
Remember that children learn to walk by falling over. Focus on the long-term achievements that you want to fulfil, and it will be easier to overcome your problems.
 
Butch Hiles
www.advancedbkj.com

—credit goes to Debra Lohere for the second part of this article