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The camp was a success!

With almost 60 girls from all over Europe fighting their hearts out on the mat the camp must be considered a huge success.    

A lot of new impressions, a lot of new friends but first and foremost a lot of hard training!

More pictures can be found in the pictures section.

We in the crew hopes and believes that all of you who attended the camp had as a good time as we did and that you will come back next time!

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With just a few spots left we are super excited about the camp to come. We’re just now nailing the final details and are just about ready to go.

Here is the schedule for the weekend

Friday:
18.00 registration and payment.
19.00-20.30 BJJ (Shanti)

Saturday:
09.00 – 10.30 Judo (Hannah & Emma)
11.00 Lunch
12.30-14.00 BJJ (Devi)
15.00-16.00 Sparring. (Shanti & Devi)
16.30 Dinner at the academy.
18.00 (Superior Challenge)

Sunday:
09.30-11.00 Submission Wrestling (Shanti)
11.45-13.15 BJJ (Devi)

As if our level of excitement wasnt high enough with the upcoming camp some really good news reached us this last week. Both Ida Hansson and Margareta Myhr are now BJJ brownbelts! 
 
Ida Hansson with her new brownbelt!

Shanti Abelha [instructor] – BJJ brownbelt:
- 2009 ADCC World Championships competitor.
- 2009 3rd place World BJJ Championships (brownbelt).
- 2008 ADCC European champion
- 2008 European BJJ champion (purplebelt)

Devi Ahuja [instructor] – BJJ brownbelt
- 2007 2nd place World BJJ championships (purplebelt)
- 2007 Polish ADCC champion
- 2006 3rd place World BJJ chamionships (purplebelt)
- 2005 World BJJ champion (bluebelt)

Fought for Leticia Ribeiros female team in 2006.

We also thought it might be of interrest to get to know who some of the more experienced participants are even before the camp, so here it goes

Carmen Jahnke – BJJ brownbelt

Tove Södersten – BJJ purplebelt:
-2009 World BJJ Champion (purplebelt)

Ingrid Ekenberg Janson – BJJ purplebelt

Arnela Hadzisulejmanovic – BJJ purplebelt
-2009 Swedish ADCC Champion

Linda Lindström – BJJ purplebelt, Sport Ju-Jutsu blackbelt, Shotokan Karate bluebelt
-2008 World JJIF Champion.

Lena Viktorsson – BJJ purplebelt

Hanna Sillén – BJJ bluebelt
- European Sanshou Champion.
-3x Swedish Sanshou Champion.
-2009 Sthlm Open BJJ Champion (bluebelt)
-2008 World BJJ Champion (whitebelt)

These are some of the more experienced fighters but of course there is also alot of hungry blue and white belt girls coming!

Girls Only is for ALL girls!

This years Judo instructors are:

Hannah Wahlberg – Judo blackbelt:

Swedish youth champion
Swedish junior champion
Swedish champion
2:nd place Nordic Championships
7:th place U23 European Championships
Been part of the swedish youth, junior and senior national teams.

Emma Barkeling – Judo blackbelt:

Swedish youth champion
Swedish junior champion
Swedish champion
European youth champion
Part of the swedish youth national team.
Part of the swedish olympic committee talent group.

We are super psyched about having these two great Judokas at the camp!

// GO crew.

We are very happy that such a wide variety of fighters has signed up. We have girls with only a couple of months trainig as well as well accomplished purple and brown belts with gold medals in the biggest of competitions. World Champions, European Champions, national champions, you name it, they’ll all be there! In a couple of days we hope to be able to publish some of the more accomplished names as well as some stats on how the belts are divided!

Last day we got word from our good friends at Jabb.se that they will once again give all participants at the camp a free “Girls Only”-Tshirt! Thank you Jabb.se!

Take the opportunity to order your fight gear from Jabb.se and have it delivered to the camp! Just send an e-mail to receptionen@nackadojo.com with your order and we’ll hook you up. Keep an eye out for more updates soon!

All the best! // Girl Only Crew

Only 25days left til the camp and we’re looking at an even bigger camp this time around! Last year was great with around 40 participants and this time we think we will be hitting the maximum limit of 60 eager fighters. We’ve actually allready almost reached the same amounts of sign ups as last years total and there’s no signs that the steady stream of sign ups would stop now. So far we have girls coming in from England, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Denmark and of course Sweden. Actually more than half of the girls signed up so far are from outside of Swedens borders!

To you who still haven’t signed up or have friends who are a little slow(:-)) we want to remind you of the limit of 60 participants at the camp so if you want to be sure you get a spot you should really sign up as soon as possible.

Sign up here: http://www.kontakt.peak24.net/nacka/kontakt_anmalan.htm
or if you cant figure out the swedish register form just send an email to: info@nackadojo.com

Last day to register: 25:th of october.

ADCC update:
As most of you probably know the ADCC World Championships in Barcelona didn’t go all the way for this years instructor, Shanti Abelha. Shanti lost a tough fight against Penny Thomas who later on finished in second place after loosing to Hannette Staack in the finals. Shanti says “lost a great match, but gained many great experiences! I will be back Thanks to my club, teachers, friends and family for the support up to it.” . We know Shanti will bring a lot of new experience to the camp and we KNOW she will be back on a winning streak really soon.

See you all soon! // GO crew.

The experienced grappler and much sought after instructor has just signed a new sponsor deal with one of the absolutely biggest gi/kimono brands, Koral! This is of course a big recognition of here abilities since Koral only signs with the best of the best.

Read more about Shanti on the Koral site:
http://www.koraleurope.com/dados_atleta.php?id=59

This is obviously great news but our guess is that Shanti’s focus lays elsewhere right now since she is about to fight in one of the biggest grappling events there is. As you probably know the ADCC World Championships is less than a week away and Shanti is gonna be there to test here skills against the absolute best grapplers in the world.

Read more about Shanti and the other girls att ADCC event site:
http://adccbarcelona.com/category/female/over-60-kg/

You can actually watch the competition live via the official stream. Check it out here: http://www.adcc2009.com/

GO SHANTI!

ps. It’s time to sign up! The spots are flying of the shelf so sign up now to be sure to have a spot.

pps. There are rumors that quite alot of high level grapplers are about to sign up for the camp. Keep your eyes open!

Shanti is an original GO (Girls Only) since she was one of the highly appreciated instructors at the first Girls Only camp in the beginning av 2009. Since then she has accomplished a lot taking third place at this years Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Championships and qualifying to the ADCC World Championships.

Check out her info at the ADCC site right here: http://adccbarcelona.com/category/female/over-60-kg/

To get to know Shanti better, watch this interview:

ADCC DK -60.0kg Finale Shanti Abelha vs Camilla Hansen

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