Continuing on with our inside look at the BTT family this month we meet BTT member Anderson Periera.

Anderson Pereira is an European Jiu Jitsu Champion and a Submission de Campos medallist (one of Brazil’s most prestigeous No Gi events). Anderson “Deton” is also a Brazilian Top Team (BTT) representative in Switzerland.
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Full Name: Anderson Pereira da Silva Breder.
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Anderson Pereira’s Nickname: “Deton” was a name that started because Anderson had a young student which couldn’t say Anderson, instead she called him “Deton”. As a joke all his team mates started calling Anderson by Deton and the name stood until this day.
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Anderson Pereira’s BJJ Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Carlson Gracie > Sérgio “Bolão” de Souza > Zé Marcello > Anderson Pereira
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Anderson Pereira’s Weight Category: Featherweight.

Please clink the link for Anderson’s full page.
http://www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-fighters/anderson-pereira-bjj-wiki

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TotalMMA Studios would like to announce a special promotional offer for anyone looking to try out our gym. For one whole month you get 50% off the regular monthly membership price, that means you get our Cardio classes for only $39.00 and all our fight classes that include everything from Muay Thai to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu for only $79.00.

Please take full advantage of this offer as it will be for a limited time only!

This offer is a one time offer and only valid for new members. Total MMA Studios reserves the right to refuse service to anyone.

Than you,
TotalMMA Studios Staff

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Attention members,
The staff here at TotalMMA Studios would like to ask for all members to attend class this coming Wednesday as we will be filming for our upcoming commercial that day.

We need everyone to participate as we look to grow the TotalMMA team.

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Forget the work-life balance! Let’s talk about something much more important: the balance between mat time and conditioning.

I bring this up because one of the questions I get asked most frequently is about how to structure one’s training and conditioning for maximum benefit, and also how to fit that in with work, family, socializing and the rest of life. In fact today’s newsletter is partially a response to a question a BJJ purple belt asked me after I sent out a batch of newsletters dealing with conditioning routines.

Balancing mat time with conditioning time can be a very tricky problem. There are only so many discretionary hours in a week, and doing more of one thing almost always means doing less of something else. If you have, say, 6 free hours a week, and you want to be the best grappler you can be, then the question arises whether you should spend all 6 hours on the mat, or spend at least some of those hours doing conditioning.

The interesting thing is that everyone struggles with this. It’s a dilemma for the 25 year old professional fighter who has hours a day to train, as well as for the 45 year old professional accountant who likes to train a few times a week but wonders if he should also be pumping some iron.

Everybody struggles with optimizing their training time, it’s just that the constraints are different. The pro fighter worries about overtraining and getting injured, and the accountant worries that his family will forget his name if he disappears for yet another weekday evening, but nobody can do as much as they want.

Be very cautious when you read about the training schedule of a professional fighter or competitor, especially if you are looking for ideas on how to structure your training. Keep in mind that:

1. they often lie about how much they do (to intimidate their opponents)
2. there is a major difference between a pre-competition training camp schedule and regular maintenance training. Their maintenance training (when they aren’t getting ready for a competition) might be a lot less than they let on.
3. a pro competitor in hard training does nothing but eat, train and sleep, a luxury not available to the vast majority of grapplers
4. they may well be taking steroids or hormones to improve recovery time

For the full article please visit http://www.grapplearts.com/Blog/2008/09/balancing-mat-time-with-conditioning/

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BTT’s Rousimar “Toquinho” Palhares is returning to the octagon soon.

Scheduled to fight his former training partner Alexandre “Cacareco” Ferreira on UFC on Versus 3, he will now face Renzo Gracie fighter Dave Branch.

Branch returns for his 4th fight with the UFC, and has won his last two.

Toquinho returns to action for the first time since his loss to Nate Marquardt back in september and looks to get back on the winning track.

The UFC on Versus 3 card goes down March 3 in Louisville, KY at the KFC Yum Arena.

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The TotalMMA team would like to welcome AllinMMA fighter Luis Salgado to our gym to train for his upcoming February 24th fight at the OC Fight Night against Gladiator MMA fighter Ozzie Alvarez.

Salgado comes to us with a 2-0 professional MMA record and a amateur MMA record of 3-0. Wanting to better himself Salgado has spend time competing in amateur muay thai smokers and nogi grappling events to improve his fundamental understanding of both the grappling and stand up elements of MMA. A student of the game Luis is constantly looking to improve his training which is what brings him here to our gym.

The TotalMMA team looks forward to helping Luis prepare for this fight and wishes him the best of luck!!!

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We are very proud to announce “The 2011 All Americas’ Jiu Jitsu Tournament”. All belt levels are invited to compete. Every competitor must turn in registration form by one of the options below:

A) Online registration

B) NABJJ Store in Torrance

Early Registration on or before January 28th

*Men=$60.00
*Women=$60.00
*Juvenile=$60.00
*Kids=$50.00

Regular Registration
between January 28th – February 1st

*Men=$70.00
*Women=$70.00
*Juvenile=$70.00
*Kids=$60.00

NABJJ reserves the right to close registration when we reach full capacity, or February 1st, whichever comes first.
Make sure to register early to save a spot.

California State University, Dominguez Hills
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, California 90747

For more information on the tournament please the official site. www.nabjjf.com/allamericas_tournament.htm

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Former UFC and Pride heavyweight champion, Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira is focused on the recovery process of his injuries and is already planning a possible return on UFC Rio. On an exclusive interview given to TATAME, the black belt talked about the importance of investing in marketing to make MMA popular, demonstrated a wish of confronting Brock Lesnar, chosen Anderson Silva as the greatest pound by pound of the world, guaranteed that he still has many work ahead of him and talked about other subjects that you can check on the chat here below.

What’s the importance of these marketing actions that you’ve been doing to enlarge MMA’s market?

It’s pretty important, there’re fans and many people who like MMA, it’s a new group of fans, it’s a sport that can be watched by people of all ages: a teenager and a 60 year old guy may be watching MMA nowadays. We have to do these things, the events, creating new MMA products and for this huge group of fans that follow MMA, also for athletes, not only the top athletes, but to all so people like it. If we create a product that the athletes use, that’s enough approval for us. If an athlete that fights in a great event uses your product, a regular person can also use it and it’ll be more than enough…

For the full article please click the link below.
http://www.tatame.com/2011/01/18/Nogueira-Ive-fought-the-best-but-I-have-much-more-to-show-you

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The heavy flooding in the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro state spread destruction and has killed hundreds since tuesday.

The cities of Teresópolis ansd Nova Friburgo were those among most heavily affected by the tragedy in the region.

Among the victims are family members of well-know Jiu Jitsu black belts Pablo Popovitch and Felipe Vidal, as well as the situation of MMA manager Alex Dias.

The Gracie family maintains a ranch in the region. As graciemag.com and Royler Gracie reported up there is all well but the community needs solidarity at this time.

Brazilian Top Team is taking donations for the victims at our head quarters in Rio de Janeiro (Brazilian Top Team – AABB Avenida Borges de Medeiros 829, Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil sosriobtt@gmail.com).
If you are in USA or anywhere in the world and wish to donate, please click at the DONATE button at the special website www.sosriobtt.com).

Any amount is welcome since the victims lost everything. If you want to donate clothes, please send to:
• Brazilian Top Team/ SOS Rio 305 Broadway – Everett MA Zip Code 02149 sosriobtt@gmail.com

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