Register for the January camp at:

http://www.womensgrappling.org/wordpress/registration/wgcjan2010

For more information on the camp, visit the camp website at http://www.womensgrappling.org/wgc2010.

The next Women’s Grappling Camp will run from January 25-29 at Big John McCarthy’s Ultimate Training Academy in Valencia, CA, USA. Mark your calendars! Save your pennies! We’re going to be making some cool changes, including some special guests that join Felicia, Val and Emily.

The Toronto camp was held immediately following the Grapple Girls Open–North America’s first all-women’s grappling tournament–and we felt that pairing the camp with a tournament was a big success. For our winter 2010 camp we are partnering with the Gracie US Nationals at the LA Fit Expo on January 23-24. Come compete at the Gracie Nationals and then spend a week training with us!

Stay tuned for more information.

Felicia, Val, Emily and Alaina

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We have opened registration for the Grapple Girls Women’s Open tournament on August 22, 2009, in Toronto, ON. You can visit the registration page to register for the tournament.

The tournament will be conducted with FILA grappling rules and will offer both gi and no-gi divisions. The FILA grappling rules will be very familiar to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and submission grappling competitors – matches are scored similarly to BJJ tournaments, and the same submissions are allowed.

We are finalizing the superfights now – once we get confirmation from the competitors, we will post them on the Grapple Girls website. See you there!

Pre-registration for the Toronto Women’s Grappling Camp (August 23-29, 2009) opened on July 1st for previous campers. If you attended the camp in February, check your email for details on pre-registration. If you didn’t receive an email, send Alaina a note and she will get you fixed up.

Registration for women who have not yet attended a camp will open on July 6th. Check back here for the link!

Good luck to Val, Sheila and Alaina, who will be competing in the ADCC North American Trials on May 23-24 near LA!

The next Women’s Grappling Camp is schedule for August 23rd-29th, 2009, in Toronto, ON. We will be planning it out while I am in California for the ADCC North American Trials at the end of May and announcing details soon. Registration will open in June. Make sure you sign up early – there will be a very limited number of spots available, and we sold out last time!

The camp will be held immediately following the GrappleGirls Open women’s tournament, also in Toronto, scheduled for August 22nd, 2009. The tournament will be run by our good friends at US Grappling and promises to be a pretty special event. Don’t miss it!