An excellent team-wide performance leads to the Team Title for a single academy and lots of gold medals all around. Read on for more info and individual results.
August 4, 2012
Richmond, VA
Kenny Savercool, German Salas and Will Mulhern led a group of new and veteran competitors who put on a great performance in the aggressive and attacking style that Fifty/50 Jiu-Jitsu is known for.
With excellent fighting spirit, no stalling, solid conditioning, and close attention to coaching all around from the newcomers to the local tournament scene, there was a lot to be happy with. Ricardo Carvalho and Ken Ohnishi picked up Absolute (open weight) titles in the Men’s beginner no-gi and white belt divisions respectively. Ken impressed a number of spectators with his repeated loop choke finishes and handling of giant (250 lbs+) opponents despite tipping the scales at only 135 lbs. Ken Stiver also had a great performance in the white belt gi division, finishing 2nd in the Absolute Class to his teammate after winning the middleweight division.
Will Mulhern and German Salas took home no-gi Advanced titles, as well as weight class golds in their blue and purple belt gi divisions. German and Kenny Savercool fought particularly well in the gi, winning their purple belt divisions and defeating Parker Conner (Revolution BJJ) via points and bow and arrow choke respectively.
Leah Buckley put on a strong performance as the team’s lone female representative, medaling in all of her brackets, including the absolute classes. The women’s team looks to get a boost in the coming months with the return of Jen Flannery from injury, as well as Megan Lomonof and Val Worthington from competitive layoffs following the Mundial.
Individual Results: (all divisions are Adult (18+) unless otherwise specified)
Richard Fitzgerald
Masters (30+) Advanced Welter-Weight Champion
Masters (30+) Purple Belt Lightweight Champion
Kenny Savercool
Advanced Lightweight 2nd Place
Purple Belt Lightweight Champion
German Salas
Advanced Featherweight Champion
Advanced Absolute 3rd Place
Purple Belt Featherweight Champion
Purple Belt Absolute 3rd Place
Will Mulhern
Advanced Middleweight Champion
Blue Belt Middleweight Champion
Jay Abbott
Blue Belt Middleweight 2nd Place
Masters (30+) Blue Belt Middleweight 2nd Place
Chris Robbins
Advanced Middleweight 2nd Place
Leah Buckley
Women’s Intermediate Middleweight 2nd Place
Women’s Blue Belt Middleweight 2nd Place
Women’s Blue Belt Absolute 2nd Place
Matt Richman
Intermediate Middleweight Champion
Spencer Hawkins
Teen (-18) No-Gi Lightweight Champion
Ken Ohnishi
Intermediate Flyweight 3rd Place
White Belt Flyweight 2nd Place
White Belt Absolute Champion
Ricardo Carvalho
Beginner Middleweight 2nd Place
Beginner Absolute Champion
White Belt Middleweight 3rd Place
Ken Stiver
White Belt Absolute 2nd Place
White Belt Middleweight Champion
Paul Skallas
Beginner Middleweight Champion
White Belt Middleweight 2nd Place
Jason Dellaville
Beginner Featherweight 3rd Place
Kevin Samara
Intermediate Lightweight 2nd Place
White Belt Lightweight 2nd Place
Albarz Alaeddini
Teen (-18) No-gi Middleweight Champion
Intermediate Absolute 3rd Place
Matt Herrity
Kids No-Gi 83-95 lbs 2nd Place
Alex Nguyen
Kids No-Gi 93-98 lbs Champion
Kids Gi 93-98 lbs 2nd Place
Tags: albarz alaeddini, alex nguyen, chris robbins, german salas, jason dellaville, Jay Abbott, ken ohnishi, ken stiver, kenny savercool, kevin samara, Leah Buckley, matt herrity, matt richman, paul skallas, ricardo carvalho, rich fitzgerald, richmond, spencer hawkins, us grappling, will mulhern.
This entry was posted
on Saturday, August 4th, 2012 at 8:35 pm and is filed under Competition.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
