Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Ego- louisville sept 17, 2011

jimmy gi 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu5vKV0Xps

jimmy gi2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9YjzXm64c
Jimmy's fight gets cut off a tiny bit, and it turns out someone has a cell of just that missing part.
funny enough to include:



Ryan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVwLCeo57dg
Tom gi 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCC38RX3zFA

Tom gi 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inb9mgVXBU

Nathan gi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njp0fSJt8ss
short and sweet until I get pics or something.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Marcello Ferriera promotion Seminar 2011

Friday Highlight. Dax gets his black belt:

Saturday: good turnout, a whole lotta promotions goin on.....


From the Razzano Academy: Thomas Brown, Tom Blue, Claudio 4 stripe blue, Steve blue + 1 stripe, Butter, 2 stripe blue, Ryan 3 stripe blue, Mike purple, Dax Black, Shawn purple, Eric 3 stripe blue, Jessica. (and Bruce on far left, 4th stripe, Marcello on far right..)
A little present for Dax:


Friday, October 1, 2010

MRSA information

There was an article in the IDS yesterday about an IU diver, Cassady Kahn who contracted MRSA. I went over to talk to her and hear her description of her experience.  she was misdiagnosed a number of times(by trainers,doctors,specialists), and it wasn't until she was extremely sick that they finally diagnosed it correctly, and within hours of being too late. It sounded like the surgeon had to cut out any infected area, including skin fascia, muscle and some bone. She has a long scar (~8") on the side of each of her legs: She ended up needing multiple (12) surgeries, some of which was reconstructive  after having lost so much tissue to the infection, as well as some very difficult physical therapy to get back to health.  After looking at the information that Cassady had assembled, I realized that the information we just posted on keeping the academy and student clean is probably inadequate.

the thing that stopped me in my tracks is  this:
MRSA Life Span Facts4
• MRSA can live for up to 7 months on dust.
• MRSA can live for up to 8 weeks on a mop head.
• MRSA can live for up to 9 weeks on cotton (towel).
• MRSA can live for up to 203 days (over 6 months) on a blanket.
• MRSA can live on the skin of otherwise healthy individuals, with no symptoms indefinitely.
 4Journal of Infection Control (2001) 49: 255-261.

 The fact that hot water and a hot dryer helps kill MRSA might prompt us to rethink "washing the gi in cold water" and not to dry them, as many are told, to control shrinkage.

There is alot written on MRSA, One source Cassasdy used was by a company selling antimicrobial skin cleaner, but the info they have seems really thorough, and is intended to be distributed in varous formats  in pdf, video, etc.
I found alot of useful information on their website.
It includes this personal testimonial which is apparently very accurate. Talking to Cassady and hearing what she went through, is parallels what happened to her.
http://www.hibiclens.com/mrsa_video/index.html

here are a couple more:
http://www.hibiclens.com/movies/1-mrsa_vs_athletes.mov - first of a series of videos:  focuses on skin to skin contact between athletes as the prime method of MRSA spreading.
http://www.hibiclens.com/mrsa_information.html : quick and dirty just text with references so you know where the info came from. It has the MRSA life span info.
 http://www.hibiclens.com/edu_materials.html 
downloadable pdfs meant to be distributed to inform people about MRSA

additional info:
from USA Wrestling: http://www.themat.com/CoachesCorner/FinalMRSAGuide.pdf
after that, there is always whatever you find on the web...

Talking to Cassady was a very sobering reminder that we have to do what we can to help reduce the risk of MRSA infections. I think I am going to start using an anti-microbial cleanser that provides residual kill for 6 hours, before I get on the mat.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Greenwood EGO tournament results for the Razzano Academy

Dax and Jeff took  a group of students to this years EGO tournament in Greenwood.
Alex came home with 3rd in the Blue Belt division (see video one of his matches). He also got 1st in the No Gi Intermediate: (see video of match 1, see video of match 2).
Butter got 1st in advanced No Gi, and 2nd in blue belt gi
Zac got 2nd in the no gi divisoin and 2nd in gi white.
Honorable mention goes to Steve and Petey, who had some great matches, definitely win-able as I think both would attest. Dax gave best match (one of top five in tournament) to Petey's match, where he threw a ton of submission attempts.
More videos and pics when we get them. I hear they are out there...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Erick Szabados gets Plata at Rio Open


We were waiting for promised cool pictures, which I just received after putting a bug in Erik's ears:


Erik on the Podium at the Rio Open

Yes, one of our own, Erik placed second in the 2010 Rio Open Master's division, Blue Belt, light weight. Erik went to Rio for a month to train with Marcelo and company and had the good fortune to be there during the tournament. Bruce brought a group down so he had Bruce and Marcelo in his corner.

Erik and some other familiar faces from Indiana and Rio!
No question Erik had a great time, and got a good memento to bring back with him. Also, a big thanks for the trouble he and Marcelo went through to have one of Marcelo's banners made. Erik brought it back as a gift to Dax. It looks good in the Academy!
Here's a blog entry from the Jiu-Jitsu Academy blog with another pic of Erick and the group.

Roger Gracie Seminar

Dax made it down to the Roger Gracie Seminar that Bruce Shepherd just brought to Evansville last Saturday: Roger Gracie Seminar at the Jiujitsu Academy in Evansville . Good stuff, as those of you who are coming to classes this week are finding out!