Team Agua BJJ, MMA & Grappling school - Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam

Team Agua best team @ White Belts Only BJJ

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:34:06 +0000

Team Agua became best team at White Belts Only BJJ, where all of Holland’s best white belts meet to compete.-70 kg
1. Jordan Mercey (Team Agua)
3. Brenton Ethard (Team Agua)

-76 kg
2. Patrick Asscher (Team Agua)
3. Anwrad Brokke (Team UCT/Team Agua)

-82.3 kg
2. Dennis Ras (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)

-88.3 kg
2. Tim Willemsen (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)

+94.3
3. Beau Boom (Team Agua)

Women
1. Natasja van Suijdam (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)
3. Shireen Noort (Team Agua)

In the picture: 1st Jordan Mercey & 3rd Brenton Ethard

Trainingtrip of Team Agua @ Ze Marcelo in London

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:16:03 +0000

Farid, Jasper, Marco, Richard, Ronald and Maurits went on a trainingtrip to Ze Marcelo in London

they improved their technique and had a great time in London!

Remco gives a BJJ seminar @ UCT Amsterdam

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:04:55 +0000

Remco van Baardewijk taugth a BJJ seminar to the UCT organization in Amsterdam.

The topic was deep half guard and UCT students were present from Amsterdam, Almere, Drachten and Groningen.

Team Agua best team @ Amsterdam Grappling Tournament

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:59:53 +0000

Team Agua became the best team at the annual Amsterdam Grappling Tournament.

Beginners -67 kg
1. Jordan Mercey (Team Agua)
2. Christiaan Faubel (Team Agua)

Beginners -73 kg
2. Mylan May (Team Agua)

Beginners -79 kg
1. Patrick Asscher (Team Agua)

Beginners -85 kg
1. Djamil Chan (Team Agua)
3. Ozcan Diler (Team Agua)

Beginners -91 kg
3. Joshua Griffith (Team Agua)

Advanced -73 kg
1. Romano de los Reyes (Team Agua)

Advanced -79 kg
2. Aboubakr el Mahdaoui (Team Agua)

Advanced -85 kg
3. Donovan Panayiotidis (Team Agua)

Advanced -91 kg
2. Arda Guncicek (Team Agua)

Advanced +91 kg
2. Eelco Schippers (Team Agua/Team Furious)

Women
2. Jesmine Latrach (Team Agua/Team Kaishin)
3. Shireen Noort (Team Agua)

In the picture, part of the team: Mike, Jordan, Dennie, Djamil, Kenan, Mylan and Chris

Medals for Team Agua at European Championships BJJ

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:43:28 +0000

Team Agua went with 5 competitors to the Europeans: Arda, Patrick, Clif, Youri and Chango.

Chango Eersel got 2nd place at Blue belt senior 1 Middle.

Youri Ballast got 3rd place at White belt Feather.

In the picture you can see Chango (with backpack) talking to Patrick (left) and Arda during the competition.

End of year graduation at our schools in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag.

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:58:21 +0000

It was time to graduate a part of the BJJ students again at our schools in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag. Besides the normal graduation we also promoted 3 of over Team Agua BJJ kids to yellow belt!

Brown:
Simeon Rutges (Amsterdam)
Rubert Caster (Den Haag)
Gordon Cheung (Amsterdam)

Purple:
Clifford Edwards (Den Haag)

Blue:
Anna Rasouli (Den Haag)
Mathijs Wilhelmus (Amsterdam)

Yellow:
Batuhan Asig
Cenker Asig
Traloh Rink

In the picture below: Alex Ramirez, our kids teacher, with the proud kids and their belts

Henk Heneweer (teacher Almere) is now a brown belt

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:51:43 +0000

Henk Heneweer the teacher at Team Kaishin/Team Agua Almere got promoted to brown belt.

He received his brown belt from Remco van Baardewijk. Four members of the Kaishin branch got their blue belts:

Mariska Gerritsen, Mohammed Moussaten, Ivan Hagen, Stephen Weverling and Martijn Zantinge.

A picture taken after the class:

Lot of medals at Dutch Open BJJ

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:34:35 +0000

A lot of medals and a good average of medals per fighter made the Dutch Open a success for Team Agua

we als became 2nd best team by only a small point difference.

White Feather: 1st Youri Ballast
White Light: 3rd Johan vd Werk
White Middle: 2nd Dennis Ras
White Senior Middle: 1st Michael Berends, 2nd Dietrik Grouwstra
Blue Middle: 1st Clifford Edwards, 2nd Aboubakr el Mahdaoui
Blue Heavy: 1st Matthijs Wilhelmus
Blue Senior Middle: 1st Chango Eersel
Wome White: 3rd Natasja van Suijdam

Team Agua best team @ Amsterdam Open BJJ 2011

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:23:56 +0000

Team Agua won the trophy for best team again at the Amsterdam Open BJJ 2011

BJJ competitors from our schools in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Almere competed in the annual event.

White Belt -70 kg
1. Brenton Ethard (Team Agua)
2. Christian Faubel (Team Agua)

White Belt -76 kg
3. Jonathan van der Linden (Team Agua)

White Belt -94.3 kg
3. Joshua Griffith (Team Agua)

White Belt Open Class
2. Joshua Griffith (Team Agua)
3. Maurits Elders (Team Agua)

Women White Belts Open
1. Mariska Gerritsen (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)
2. Katarzyna Wrobel (Team Agua)

Blue Belt -82.3 kg
3. Chango van Eersel (Team Agua)

Blue Belt -88.3 kg
2. Michel Ras (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)

Blue Belt -94.3 kg
3. Arda Guncicek (Team Agua/Bursa BJJ)

Blue -100.5 kg
1. Matthijs Wilhelmus (Team Agua)

Blue Belt Open Class
2. Donovan Panayiotidis (Team Agua)

Elite +88.3 kg
1. Jessie Gibbs (Team Agua)

In the picture: Jonathan van der Linden, finishing his opponent with a triangle.

Gold medals at West-German Open BJJ

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:16:41 +0000

Youri Ballast, Chango Eersel and Clifford Edwards went to the West-German Open BJJthe results could not have been better:

Youri won gold in the White Featherweight division and got the trophy for most technical fighter.
Chango won gold in the Blue Middle division.
Clifford won gold in the Blue Lightweight and the Open Class, beating a brown belt in the finals!

Clifford, Youri and Chango

Team Agua best team at Den Haag Grappling Tournament 2011!

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:09:12 +0000

Team Agua got together their group of grapplers from Den Haag, Rotterdam and Amsterdam to compete at the Den Haag Grappling Tournament 2011

Great results, see below !

Beginners -67 kg
1. Mylan May (Team Agua)

Beginners -73 kg
1. Cherello Leisberg (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)

Beginners -79 kg
3. Bas van Duin (Team Kaishin/Team Agua)

Beginners -91 kg
1. Joshua Griffith (Team Agua)
3. Ozcan Diler (Team Agua)

Advanced -79 kg
2. Tayron Agtereek Chavarro (Team Agua)

Advanced +91 kg
1. Jessie Gibbs (Team Agua)

Clifford Edwards brings back medals from Brazil!

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:00:22 +0000

Clifford Edwards spent several months in Brazil training with Cicero Costa and Augusto Ferrari

the hard training also resulted in some medals won at Copa Shihan in Sao Paulo.

Now he is back training BJJ in Den Haag and Rotterdam to prepare for the upcoming tournaments in Europe.

Check out the picture with the hardware below!

Remco teaches BJJ seminar @ Drachten (UCT)

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:49:08 +0000

Remco van Baardewijk went to the north of Holland to teach a BJJ seminar at a UCT school in Drachten.The topic of the seminar was sweeps and armbars from the guard and the group was nice and enthusiastic !

Higher BJJ belts @ Team Agua Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:35:18 +0000

A lot of students from Team Agua got promoted to the a higher rank after the hard training.

Here below is an overview of the rewarded belts:

Yellow
Shagoefa Manichand

Blue
Omar Tjon
Peter Vergauwen
Cees Danenberg
Clayton Tjon
Clark Tjon

Purple
Duncan Diaz
Maarten Tol
Eric Faddeev
Francis Thode
Regie Rink

Brown
Abdullah Al-Omari
James Verschuur

In the picture Duncan Diaz with his new belt, congrats!

Duncan Diaz - purple belt BJJ

4 fighters, 4 medals at Kime Open BJJ

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:33:29 +0000

Four of our white belts went to compete at the Kime Open BJJ, they all won medals.

From left to right:
Mylan May, Brenton Ethard, Geert Nieboer & Iwan Hansen

Team Agua best team @ Amsterdam Grappling Tournament

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:28:41 +0000

Team Agua won the best team title at the Amsterdam Grappling Tournament.

Amsterdam Grappling Tournament

Here is an overview of our fighters that got medals:

Beginners -67 kg
1. Cherello Reisberg 2. Robert Ganpatsing

Beginners -79 kg
2. Waldir Bes 3. Patrick Asscher

Beginners -91 kg
1. Maurits Elders 2. Joshua Griffith

Beginners +91 kg
3. Mohammed Ramzan

Advanced -67 kg
2. Dae-Young Holten

Advanced -79 kg
3. Mario Witteman

Advanced -85 kg
1. Aboubakr el Mahdaoui

Advanced +85 kg
2. Francis Thode

Open Class
1. Francis Thode

3 fighters, 4 medals at Limburg Open BJJ

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:18:55 +0000

Team Agua went with 3 competitors to Belgium to compete at the Limburg Open BJJ.

Resulting in four medals:

Chango Eersel (l) got the silver in Blue Middle.
Clifford Edwards (m) won gold in Blue Light as well as the Open Class.
Abdullah Al-Omari won silver in Purple Middle.

Congrats!

Henk Heneweer wins Brittish Open!

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:37:53 +0000

Henk Heneweer teacher at Team Agua Almere/Kaishin went to the UK to compete at the Brittish Open.The result was a gold medal for Henk! Congrats!

A lot of medals for Team Agua @ Holland Gi Challenge 2011

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:33:29 +0000

Team Agua competed with a group of BJJ competitors from our schools in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Almere @ the Holland Gi Challenge 2011.The results were great, check out all of our students that got medals, here below:

3rd Place White -70 kg: Harry van Oosten
1st Place White -94.3 kg: Maurits Elders
3rd Place White -94.3kg: Luuk Benten
2nd Place White +94.3 kg: Ivor Suburan
1st Place White Open Class: Maurits Elders
1st Place Blue -76 kg: Clifford Edwards
3rd Place Blue -76 kg: Tony van Vuurden
3rd Place Blue -88.3 kg: Michel Ras
2nd Place Blue +94.3 kg: Francis Thode
3rd Place Blue +94.3 kg: Duncan Diaz
2nd Place Women -60kg: Anna Rasouli
1st Place Women +60 kg: Jesmine Latrach
3rd Place Women +60 kg: Mariska Gerritsen

Clifford Edwards wins Abu Dhabi Trials UK !

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:21:15 +0000

Clifford Edwards who trains BJJ in our schools in Den Haag and Rotterdam went to the UK to compete at the Abu Dhabi Trials.He won his weight division and got third place in the open class. Congrats!

Team Agua best team @ White Belts Only

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:18:21 +0000

On the 20th of March the anual event White Belts Only was held in Amsterdam. Competing at this BJJ tournament, where white belts are guaranteed several fights, is a good way to gain experience and see who the new talents are.

Our white belts did great and we won the trophy for best team!

BJJ & Grappling seminars with Boca in Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:13:13 +0000

Vagner ‘ Boca’ Guimaraes (black belt under Fernando Terere) spent some days with our team in Holland teaching BJJ, Grappling and MMA seminars at our schools in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam and Almere.The picture was taken at the Europeans where Boca got the silver medal.

BJJ Seminar with Augusto Ferrari

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:54:08 +0000

Augusto Ferrari, Brazilian National champion, came by to teach some seminars.

He taught one at our BJJ school in Amsterdam and one at our school in Den Haag. Very nice details and techniques!

Below a picture of the group after the seminar in Den Haag.

BJJ Seminar Augusto Ferrari at our school in Den Haag

Team Agua is best team @ Rotterdam Grappling Tournament

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:40:43 +0000

Team Agua competed at the Rotterdam Grappling Tournament with a group of our Grappling schools from Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag.

A good result, Best Team!! Check out a list of the Team Agua students that got a medal:

Beginners -79 kg          2^nd Patrick Asscher
Beginners -91 kg              1^st Cas Helder + 2^nd Sergey Kharebov
Advanced -67 kg          1^st Pele Nguyen
Advanced -73 kg              1^st Clifford Edwards
Advanced -79 kg          2^nd Aboubakr El Mahdaoui
Advanced -85 kg              1^st Eric Faddeev
Women                               1^st Anna Rasouli

Abou attacking the single leg at the Rotterdam Grappling Tournament

Remco teaches a Grappling seminar at Aihato

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:20:42 +0000

Remco van Baardewijk went to Groningen to teach a seminar at Aihato school.

The seminar was about back control and submissions from the back. The group was really motivated and Remco will return there later this year for another Grappling seminar.

Grappling seminar @ Aihato

Team Agua wins gold and silver @ the Europeans BJJ!

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:53:52 +0000

Team Agua went with a group of fighters from our BJJ schools in Amsterdam and Den Haag to Portugal to compete at the Europeans.

Jesmine Latrach, who besides training with our BJJ school in Amsterdam also trains in Almere, and Chango Eersel got medals for the team. Jesmine submitted al of her opponents except in the finals, where she won 25-0!! Gold!
Chango got the silver medal in his category!

Chango with his medal on the far right.

New purple belt BJJ at our Den Haag school!

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:46:38 +0000

Marco de Keizer, BJJ and Grappling student at our Den Haag school, received his purple belt from Ze Marcelo after years of hard training. Marco travels quite a lot to get to our BJJ classes, so his effort paid off!!

Below a pic of Marco with Ze Marcelo and Farid.

new purple belt @ our bjj school in den haag

Extra classes in 2011 at all locations

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:00:42 +0000

This year we add extra classes to our schedule:

Amsterdam: Tuesday’s from 19.15 till 20.45 Grappling for Beginners.

Rotterdam: Tuesday’s from 19.30 till 21.00 Grappling

Den Haag: Wednesday’s from 18.00 till 19.00 Kids BJJ (8 -12 yrs)

Team Agua wishes you a happy 2011!!

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:41:45 +0000

Team Agua wishes you a happy 2011

and invites you to come train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), Grappling (no gi) or MMA with us in Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Almere!!

Graduation BJJ Team Agua Den Haag

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:18:29 +0000

Besides the BJJ graduation in Amsterdam, there was also a graduation in Den Haag.

Several BJJ practicioners were promoted to a higher rank.

Purple: Sinisa Matic
Blue: Max Geerts, Tito Nicolaas and Emill Hagens.

Congrats!!

In the picture: Max Geerts with his new BJJ blue belt.

New BJJ purple & blue belts @ Team Agua Amsterdam!

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:11:06 +0000

End of the year and a lot of student got their new BJJ belts at Team Agua Amsterdam.

Promoted to BJJ purple belt were:
Stephen Kastoryano, Andy Siebert and Marc Stappers.

New BJJ blue belts:
Kevin Spook, Marco Kwehandjaja, Romano de los Reyes, Michel Ras and Aboubakr el Mahdaoui.

Congrats!

On the picture Andy, Marc and Stephen with their BJJ purple belts.

BJJ seminar with Marcus Vinicius in Den Haag

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:03:03 +0000

Marcus Vinicius taught a BJJ seminar with our team in Den Haag.

Marcus is a 5th degree black belt BJJ, the owner of the Beverly Hills Jiu Jitsu Club and has coached MMA stars like Bas Rutten and Marc Kerr. He showed us a lot of techniques, mostly some nice detailed basics. A great seminar!

Team Agua best team @ Amsterdam Open 2010

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:49:41 +0000

Team Agua won the trophy for best team at the Amsterdam Open BJJ 2010!

The hard training paid off with a lot of medals for the team, and also by winning the trophy for best team with three times the points of the second place team. Congrats guys!

All Team Agua medals:

White Belt -70 kg
1. Clayton Tjon (Team Agua)
2. Max Geerts (Team Agua)
White Belt -82.3 kg
1. Aboubakr El Mahdaoui (Team Agua)
White Belt -94.3 kg
1. Erik Zentveld (Team UCT/Team Agua)
White Belt -100.5 kg
1. Amir Mehrdad (Team Agua)
3. Mohammed Ayahs (Team Agua)
White Belt Open Class
3. Aboubakr El Mahdaoui (Team Agua)
Blue Belt -82.3 kg
1. Maarten Tol (Team Agua)
3. Laszlo Geleng (Team Agua)
3. Tayron Agtereek Chavarro (Team Agua)
Blue Belt -88.3 kg
1. Chango Eersel (Team Agua)
2.Stephen Kastoryano (Team Agua)
Blue Belt -94.3 kg
2. Francis Thode (Team Agua)
Elite -94.3 kg
1. Henk Heneweer (Team Agua/Kaishin)
Elite +94.3 kg
1. Jessie Gibbs (Team Agua)
Elite Open Class
1. Jessie Gibbs (Team Agua)
Women +60 kg
2. Natasja van Suijdam (Team Agua/Kaishin)
3. Jesmine Latrach (Team Agua/Kaishin)

BJJ seminar Abmar Barbosa

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:11:22 +0000

Abmar Barbosa, upcoming BJJ star who has been winning IBJJF tournaments all around the world,

was in Holland and taught a BJJ seminar with Team Agua in Den Haag and Amsterdam. Great techniques!

Team Agua best team at Den Haag Grappling tournament

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:56:04 +0000

Team Agua won a lot of medals and became best team at the Den Haag Grappling Tournament.

Here is a list with all the results from Team Agua at the Grappling tournament in Den Haag:
Youri Ballast – 3rd place Beginners -67kg
Ryan Air – 1st place Beginners -67kg
Aboubakr el Mahdaoui – 1st place Beginners -79kg
Waldir Bes – 2nd place Beginners -79kg
Maurits Elders - 2nd place Beginners -85kg
Ivo Suburan – 2nd place Beginners +90kg
Gino van Weenen – 3rd place Beginners +90kg
Pele Nguyen – 1st place Advanced -67kg
Rubert Caster – 1st place Advanced -79kg

Seminar with Augusto Ferrari

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:26:16 +0000

Augusto Ferrari was back in Holland for some classes and seminars with us.

He showed us some nice techniques and after the seminar we went out to eat some traditional Dutch fish; haring!

After the seminar in Den Haag

Chris Arends is the newest TA brown belt!

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:15:58 +0000

Chris Arends, long time member of Team Agua received his brown belt during his last training in Holland.

After years of training in Holland, he will go back to Aruba and start a Team Agua school over there.

We wish him all the best with Team Agua Aruba and with this new chapter in his life!!

A proud Chris Arends with his new belt and certificate

Team Agua wins @ Brabant Open BJJ

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:03:22 +0000

Team Agua went with a small group of competitors to compete at the Brabant Open BJJ 2010,the result was good, we won a lot of medals.

Check out all the results of our fighters below:

Anna Rasouli – 2nd place Women
Nico Kromodikoro - 2nd place White Belt -70kg
Aboubakr El Mahdaoui - 1st place White Belt -82.3kg
Michel Ras - 3rd place White Belt -94.3kg
Pele Nguyen - 3rd place Blue Belt -70kg
Marco de Keizer - 3rd place Blue Belt -82.3
Clifford Edwards – 3rd place Blue Belt -82.3 & Winner Blue Open Class

Clif and Abou with their medals and trophy

Thijs and Melvin win their MMA fights!

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:31:32 +0000

Thijs Heutinck who trains BJJ, Grappling and MMA in Den Haag and Melvin van Suijdam who trains Grappling in Amsterdam and is a student of Henk Heneweer in Almere (Kaishin) fougt MMA and were both victorious!

Melvin won by decision and Thijs by KO within 10 seconds!

Marco wins in Hellevoetsluis!

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:25:56 +0000

Marco de Keizer who trains BJJ, Grappling and MMA in Den Haag competed in Hellevoetsluis and got the gold in the blue belt middle weight class.

Henk wins bronze at Brittish Open!

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:19:56 +0000

Henk Heneweer, teacher of Team Agua/Kaishin in Almere went to Birmingham to compete, at the Brittish Open. Eventhough he was injured, he still made it to the podium and got the bronze.
In the picture Henk is wearing the white t shirt.

2 x Gold, 1 Silver and 2 x Bronze at NK Grappling Ede

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:22:12 +0000

Team Agua went with 5 fighters to compete at NK Grappling Ede.All 5 competitors train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Grappling in Amsterdam and Den Haag to compete at the Grappling championships in Ede.

In the picture, Aboubakr (2nd from right) with his gold medal.

Here are our results:
Aboubakr el Mahdaoui: Gold -82kg
Remco van Baardewijk: Gold -70kg
Clark Tjon: Silver – 65kg
Clayton Tjon: Bronze -65kg
Eelco Schippers: Bronze 100kg

MMA training in Den Haag with Jessie Gibbs.

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:43:00 +0000

MMA classes with Jessie Gibbs, BJJ black belt and international MMA fighter,started last month in Den Haag.
Den Haag/Rijswijk
van Vredeburchweg 75, 2282 SE

Monday: 20.00 – 22.00 BJJ
Wednesday: 19.00 – 20.30 MMA

Graduation at Team Agua

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:21:00 +0000

Some students from TA got promoted to a higher rank in BJJ. Blue: Melvin v. Suijdam, Chango Eersel, Quentin Haberham, Tayron Chavarro, Miguel Tjon Kon Fat, Clifford Edwards, Jason Tjon Kon Fat, Frank Smit, Thijs Heutinck, Eelco Schippers and Bernd Winkelbeiner.
The hard training paid off, congrats!

Michelle Matta taught classes @ TA DH & A’dam

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Michelle Matta, first female black belt under Jacare from Alliance and around 25 years of experience in BJJ, taught some classes at our team.

First picture is taken after class in Den Haag, second in Amsterdam.

Team Agua Best Team at Holland Gi Challenge !

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:00 +0000

Team Agua won the best team award at the Holland Gi Challenge, just like last year.
On the picture, from L to R:Polish competitor, Lee Lei, Cliff & Andy.

Seminar Michelle Niccolini @ TA Amsterdam

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:06:00 +0000

Michelle Niccolini, world champion black belt at weight and open class,came to Amsterdam and taught a seminar with Team Agua there.

Team Agua wins gold at Europeans!

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Clifford ‘Pateta’ Edwards, went to Portugal to compete at the Europeans and won gold at lightweight.
Congrats!

Dudu gave seminars @ TA

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:58:00 +0000

Eduardo ‘Dudu’ Nascimento a black belt under Barbosa andbronze medallist at the World Cup, came to Holland to teach some seminars and classes to Team Agua.

TA preparing for Holland Gi Challenge

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:42:00 +0000

The newyear has started and with that, the preparations for the new goals.

First the Europeans Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Portugal and then the Holland Gi Challenge Brazilian Jiu jitsu Tournment in Amsterdam. We were Best Team last year, so that makes us defending champion. Time to train hard!!

Happy 2010 !!

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:20:00 +0000

Team Agua wishes you a happy 2010 and invites you to come train Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), Grappling (no gi) or MMA with us in Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Almere!!

End of the year group dinner.

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:16:00 +0000

To close off 2009 Team Agua had a group dinner in Den Haag.

Two new belts @ TA: Blue & Purple

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:12:00 +0000

Team Agua promoted 2 of our students to a higher rank at the end of 2009.

Kenneth Ajodhia: blue belt
Rubert Caster: purple belt

Congrats!

Young guns from Team Agua win in Belgium!

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:17:00 +0000

Quentin Haberham, Clifford Edwards and Job Worms went to Brussels to participate in a -21 years old juvenile tournament.

Our young guns did great and took home 2x Gold (Quentin&Clifford) and a silver (Job). You will hear a lot about them in the future!

Cadu gave a seminar at Team Agua

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Cadu Francis, world no gi champion, gave two seminars at Team Agua. One in The Hague and one in Amsterdam.

Great detailed basic techniques!

Seminar of Remco at Team Agua Kaishin

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:41:00 +0000

Remco van Baardewijk gave a seminar at Henk Heneweer’s school Team Agua Kaishin in Almere.

Henk’s hard work paid off, the school and level of students is growing a lot there!

Team Agua best team @ Dutch Open

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:36:00 +0000

We entered with a big team, won a lot of medals and got first place.

Best Team: congrats guys!!

Team Agua wins medals in Switzerland

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:32:00 +0000

The Europeans organised by the CBJJE, held in Switzerland.

Congrats to the competitors from Team Agua Kaishin!!

Melvin van Suijdam
1st White Belt -88.3kg

Jesmine Latrach
2nd Ladies White Belt

Michael Berends
3rd place White Belt -76kg

Team Agua best team again at the Amsterdam Open 2009!

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:24:00 +0000

Team Agua became best team again at the Amsterdam Open 2009!

The biggest and most international tournament ever held in Holland. Team Agua had the triple amount of points that number 2 and 3 had. Congrats to all the competitors from Team Agua.

Jessie Gibbs receives his black belt from Barbosa!

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:48:00 +0000

Barbosa was in Holland to teach some classes at Team Agua. At the end of the final class, Jessie Gibbs received his black belt from Barbosa.
First picture is Jessie receiving his black belt.
Second picture is Barbosa with the teachers of Team Agua; Jessie, Farid and Remco.
Third picture was taken after class with Barbosa.

Ooievaarspas supports Team Agua

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:03:00 +0000

The Ooievaarspas is a fund of the city of The Hague (Den Haag) to help and motivate kids, students and people with a lower income to participate in a sport. Team Agua has support from the Ooievaarspas. This means all children (untill 18 years) can train for free! Students and people with a lower income get around 50 % discount For more info, check: http://www.ooievaarspas.nl/

Team Agua training trip + competitions Brazil

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:00 +0000

Francis, Keng, Lee Lei, Remco, Tayron, Cliff and Alex went to Brazil in July and August to boost up their training and of course to have some fun! First pic is taken at Pipa beach in the northeast of Brazil. Second pic is after training with Boca in Joao Pessoa. Third pic is Tayron on the podium of the Rio Open. Tayron also won 1st place at Circuito Nordestino. Where Lee Lei and Francis got 2nd places. Last pic is with part of the group after training in Sao Paulo with Barbosa.

Team Agua wins in Denmark!

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:10:00 +0000

Members from Team Agua Den Haag, Amsterdam and Almere (Kaishin) travelled to Denmark to compete at the Nordic Open. The results was a lot of medals and trophies! Remco van Baardewijk Gold Open Weight Experts BJJ
Remco van Baardewijk Gold Open Weight Experts Grappling

Henk Heneweer Silver Experts Open Weight BJJ
Henk Heneweer Silver All Belts Open Weight BJJ

Clifford Edwards Gold -76 kg White Belt
Clifford Edwards Silver -76 kg Grappling Beginners

Andy Siebert Gold -76 kg Grappling Advanced

Melvin van Suijdam Gold -88.3 kg White Belt
Melvin van Suijdam Gold -88.3 kg Grappling Beginners
Melvin van Suijdam Silver -88.3 kg Grappling Advanced
Melvin van Suijdam Bronze All Levels Open Weight Grappling

Michel Ras Silver -88.3 kg White Belt
Michel Ras Silver -88.3 kg Grappling Beginners

Jesmine Latrach Silver Female BJJ -64 kg
Jesmine Latrach Gold Beginners Grappling -69 kg
Jesmine Latrach Bronze Open Weight Grappling

Marc Stappers wins silver @ Xia-Ja

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:07:00 +0000

Marc Stappers blue belt bjj and black belt judo, who trains at Team Agua in Amsterdam won silver at the Xia-Ja groundfighting tournament.

Lots of medals for Team Agua @ Brabant Open

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Team Agua competed at the Brabant Open. Almost everyone went home with medals.

Branco Visser, Bram Stahlie, Jessin Ben Omar got silver, bronze and bronze in the kids divisions.

Jesmine won gold in the Women’s white belt and second in the women’s blue belt.

Thijs Heutinck, Gold – 70kg White Belt
Clifford Edwards, Gold -76kg White Belt
Tayron Agtereek Chavarro, Gold -82kg White Belt
Chango Eersel, Silver -82kg White Belt
Jonathan Cores, Silver -88kg White Belt
Eelco Schippers, Gold +94kg White Belt
Stephen Kastoryano, Silver -82kg Blue Belt
Marco de Keizer, Bronze -82kg Blue Belt
Eelco Schippers, Gold Open Class Blue Belt

Two new blue belts @ Team Agua Den Haag

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:14:00 +0000

Augusto Ferrari gave a seminar at Team Agua in Den Haag and promoted two studentsto the rank of blue belt: Ramses Helder & Francis Thode. First picture: Francis & Ramses with their new belts.

Second picture is a crazy group pic.

Thijs Heutinck wins European Amateur Shooto Cup!

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:06:00 +0000

Thijs Heutinck, member of Team Agua in Den Haag (The Hague).Fought and won 4 fights at the European Amateur Shooto Cup.He became European champion of the -65 kg division.

Team Agua competes @ Limburg Open in Belgium

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:56:00 +0000

Team Agua went with some fighters of the team to Belgium to compete at the Limburg Open. Andy Siebert: 1st place -76 kg Tayron Agtereek Chavarro: 1st place -82.3 kg & Most Technical Fighter Melvin van Suijdam: 1st place -88.3 kg

Eddy de Waert: 1st place -94.3 kg

Eelco Schippers: 3rd place + 94.3 kg

Chango Eersel: 3rd Place Open Class

Seminar @ UCT/Team Agua

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:51:00 +0000

Benno Westra, owner of the UCT school, invited Remco van Baardewijk for a seminar with Team UCT/Team Agua. The main theme of the seminar was escapes from disadvantageous positions.

Graduation @ Team Agua. Farid got his black belt!!

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:17:00 +0000

Thursday April 16th, Ze Marcelo, held a seminar at Team Agua in The Hague.

This was also a graduation training and several of our members got new belts. Farid Ben Omar, who teaches class on Wednesday, had the honor to receive his black belt from Ze !! William van de Struis, Marco Keizer, Regie Rink and Fariq Ishaak received their blue belts.

In this picture you can see Farid (red gi) and Marco (white gi) with their new belts.

Visitor from the States

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:12:00 +0000

Mike Ybarra, black tshirt middle of the pic, from Virginia (US) came to visit us for some training.

New location Team Agua, BJJ in Rotterdam

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:45:00 +0000

Team Agua started to teach BJJ classes in Rotterdam on Saturdays from 13.00 – 15.00. Since we have a lot of members coming from Rotterdam to follow classes with us in The Hague, we decided to open a location closer to them in the centre of Rotterdam. Location: Josephstraat 10, 3014 TP Rotterdam Come by to train BJJ in Rotterdam !

Team Agua wins at European Trials

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:15:00 +0000

Team Agua went to the European Trials and took home some highly aprecciated metal.

Top: Remco van Baardewijk wins the trials. Beating a Brazilian black belt on his way to the gold, earning a ticket to the World Championships in Abu Dhabi.

Below: Clifford Edwards wins the bronze and also made it to the quarterfinals in the Open Class.

Medals for Team Agua at Grappling Ede

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:06:00 +0000

We went with a small group of 7 fighters and got 5 medals.

Regie Rink, 1st -70kg
Alex Itoafa, 3rd -70 kg
Quentin Haberham 3rd-76 kg
Nuno Ribeiro, 1st -100 kg
Eelco Schippers, 3rd -100 kg

On the left, Alex Itoafa.
In the middle, Regie Rink.

Training with Dudu, black belt under Barbosa

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Dudu (Eduardo Nascimento) was with our team to teach classes and seminars.

Dudu is a black belt under Barbosa and bronze medallist at the World Championships. His jiu jitsu is great and he taught us a lot!

Two new purple belts in Amsterdam

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Boca graduated two students to the rank of purple belt!Oliver Lemmer, MMA teacher at Team Agua Amsterdam (top) & Henk Heneweer, teacher at Team Agua Almere/ Kaishin. (below)

Team Agua in Haarlem @ Kenamju

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Team Agua teaches BJJ classes on the Wednesday evening at the famous judoschool Kenamju.

Classes are from 18.30 until 20.00. More info: www.kenamju.nl The picture was taken after a no gi class from BJJ black belt Boca.

World Judo Champion Guillame
Elmont was training too.

Team Agua Kids @ Holland Gi Challenge

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:37:00 +0000

The Team Agua kids, trained by Henk Heneweer (Kaishin) in Almere, competed at the Holland Gi Challenge and drew a lot of attention. It was the first time that kids competed in BJJ in Holland and everybody was very impressed with their performance!

Team Agua is Best Team at the Holland Gi Challenge!

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:33:00 +0000

The Holland Gi Challenge is the biggest BJJ tournament in Holland and had around 230 competitors from countries like France, Belgium, Germany, UK, Greece, Italy, Spain Rumania and Holland. We won the trophy for best team, with a large lead in points. The picture was taken at the end of the day with part of the team on the podium.

Seminar with Marcus Vinicius

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Team Agua Amsterdam hosted a seminar with Marcus Vinicius, 4th degree black belt from the Beverly Hills JJ Club.

First picture is of the group and second picture is Marcus Vinicius with one of our blue belts, Marc Stappers.