Full results I RGC Wroclaw Meeting

Sunday, 31st of May, 2009

Participants: 67

Teams: RGC Wroclaw, RGC Silesia (Gliwice, Zawiercie, Dabrowa Gornicza), Sqra Gold Team, Boi Team Wroclaw, LGT Zielona Góra, BJJ Jelenia Góra, Jungle BJJ Praga and Lutadores Opole

Blue belts:

+90kgs
1. Patryk Horbatiuk – RGC Silesia
2. Michał Łapka – SQRA Gold Team
3. Konrad Łęski – RGC Wroclaw

-90kgs
1. Łukasz Zawada – RGC Wroclaw
2. Łukasz Dźbik – RGC Wroclaw
3. Robert Małocha – LGT Zielona Góra

-81kgs
1. Andrej Galanda – Jungle BJJ Praga
2. Bartek Bibrowicz – RGC Wroclaw
3. Adam Karolczyk – RGC Silesia
3. Michał Organiściuk – SQRA Gold Team

-73kgs
1. Martin Krener – Jungle BJJ
2. Krzysztof Łaba – RGC Silesia
3. Kamil Bali – Boi Team
3. Krzysztof Flak – RGC Silesia

-66kgs
1. Artur Kuzera – RGC Wroclaw
2. Maciek Bochenek – RGC Silesia

White belts:

+90kgs
1. Paweł Kaźmierczak – LGT Zielona Góra
2. Tomasz Zackiewicz – BJJ Jelenia Góra
3. Kamil Zgondek – RGC Wroclaw

-90kg
1. Robert Balicki – Boi Team Wroclaw
2. Rafał Zawidzki – RGC Wroclaw
3. Ivor Kollar – Jungle BJJ Praga
3. Adam Maciocha – RGC Wroclaw

-81kg
1. Jakub Cerny – Jungle BJJ Praga
2. Bartosz Kocierz – RGC Silesia
3. Szymon Wolny – RGC Wroclaw
3. Paweł Tomalik – Lutadores Opole

-73kg
1. Dawid Machura – RGC Silesia
2. Sebastian Baran – RGC Silesia
3. Paweł Łabuda – RGC Wroclaw
3. Adrian Wisła – RGC Wroclaw

-66kg
1. Tomasz Środoń – SQRA Gold Team
2. Norbert Warchoł – SQRA Gold Team
3. Daniel Guszta – RGC Silesia
3. Paweł Kociubiński – RGC Wroclaw

First impressions on the I RGC Meeting

Wroclaw, the meeting place. And yesterday as time for our first meeting cup, an idea to integrate the RGC schools in the region and make a small competition, also open to invited clubs.

The tournament had 65 entries in the white and blue belts, and a superfight between purples. The clubs RGC Gliwice, Zawiercie, Dabrowa and Wroclaw were presents, as well as Lutadores Opole, BJJ Jelenia Góra, BJJ Zielona Góra, SQRA Gold Team, Boi Team Wroclaw and Jungle BJJ Praga. Jungle is the first BJJ school from Czech Republic, coached by my friend Fernando Araújo, a black belt from Rio de Janeiro living in Prague. His students won two divisions in the blue belt and one in the white, with others showing good skills and already some competition experience.

The overall level of the tournament was good, notably among the blue belts, and I was happy that most students from Wroclaw, experiencing a competition for the first time, displayed heart and skills. With more training and more experience, they shall do well in future comps. The best performance from our guys came from Lukasz Zawada, Lukasz Dzybk, Artur Kuzera and Szymon Wolny. Guys from Silesia did well too, with a special mention to all the team that came from RGC Gliwice, there is a lot of potential there. Outstanding was the heart of Patrik Horbatiuk from Zawiercie, that took 2 very tight armbars, impressively escaped from both, passing the guard and controlling his experienced opponent (a judoist) to win the finals over 90kgs (he weighs 80!).

The decision to not have advantages was a good one, the matches have stalled a lot less, and twice we called overtimes to decide the winner, so in the end we always had clear decisions, without any complaints throughout the competition. Mariusz did a good job refereeing, and at 4pm we finished the meeting, giving medals, certificates and t-shirts to the winners.

I am still tired but it was worth it every minute. I will bring full results tomorrow.

RGC Dabrowa delivering in Bytom

Our students from Dabrowa Gornicza went to a grappling comp last weekend in Bytom, Poland, and grabbed some medals at the VIII OPEN POLISH JU-JITSU FULL CONTACT AND GRAPPLING CHAMPIONSHIPS. All of them fought the Grappling divisions.
Check full results from our guys here:

Mateusz Szyniec – 1st place -66kg seniors
Sławomir Świtała – 3rd place +90kg seniors
Piotr Karnicki – 1st place -73kg juniors
Krzysiek Flak – 2nd place -66kg juniors

Polish BJJ Championships

Saturday 22nd of November, we travelled to Lodz for the IV Polish Nationals. The tournament had about 670 participants, I believe that it is now the biggest national BJJ competition in Europe. Bigger comps are the European Championships in Portugal, Seni in England and the Scandinavian Open, but those have people from many countries, most national comps have less than 200 participants.

The level of the participants was very high, but the organizational level was amateur to say the least. Many fighters arrived in the morning and waited until the evening to fight, there were mats without fights all the time, many mistakes made by the referees, some of them were blue belts, and one of my students, caught in a triangle, stood up to escape and the ref stopped the fight. He later explained that it was perfectly executed technique so he decided to end the fight (the inexperience of some of the refs annoyed me, but this was adding insult to injury).

The most incredible thing was to see that the organisers printed in all the shirts of the refs the logo of their club, but of course the thing that affects mostly the fighters are the mistakes done in their fights and the time they have to wait without knowing when to fight, it was evident that they should have hired someone experienced to help them to cope with the task, but seems that some people just do not care.

One of the requirements to fight was to have some sort of health insurance, but if you did not have it, just pay for one made on the spot, valid for six months. The doctor check your Id, sign it but he does not even check your health. Some people in Poland are copying the bad habits of their masters from Brasil, unfortunately.

Anyways, this affected not only our guys but everyone competing, and we had some good results, with some of our fighters doing better than expected while others felt more the pressure and the problems. We participated with 35 people and had 3 golds, 2 silvers and 4 or 5 bronzes.

I have results of our athletes but perhaps one or two bronze medals are missing, if that is true, I will later fix that here.

Juniors (white and blue together)

-74kg
3rd place – Lukasz Swatowski

+ 84,3kg
1st place – Lukasz Dzibk
3rd place – Adrian Kremski

White Belts

-64kg
1st place – Mateusz Szynek
2nd place – Kamil Ciepulis

-76 kg
1st place – Patrik Horbatiuk

Blue Belts

-100kg
3rd place – Slawomir Swiatala

Elite (purple, brown and black together)

-76kg
3rd place – Krystian Kwiecien

-94kg
2nd place – Tomasz Drozdzik

Congratulations to all the guys that came from Wroclaw, Dabrowa Gornicza, Kielce, Lubliniec and Zawiercie, winning or losing, they showed skills and represented well our club.