RENEGADE MMA

2011 Sambo US Open and Pan American Championships

Rahway- NJ

Team Renegade represented well at the 2011 Sambo US open. Taylor Costantino won a 1st Place Gold Medal in the 68kg Division, Jeremy Piaser won a 3rd Place Bronze medal in the 82kg division, and Matt Dixon won a 3rd Place Bronze Medal in the 59kg division (15-16 year old).

NAGA World Championships -  NJ may 7th, 2011

 Vic Torres wins 2nd place Silver medal at the NAGA World Championships! Vic competed in the Intermediate division and made it all the way through to the finals. Vic has been working hard on his ground game over the last few months and the hard work really paid off!

Grapplers Quest - Beast of the East April 9th 2011

    Brittany Waunsch wins a Silver Medal in the Women's Division. This was Brittany's first Grappling tournament and she did very well for her first time out!

March 18th, 2011 - Dalfsen, The Netherlands

The ASA's Team American Sambo sweeps the Dutch Open Sambo Championships (FIAS) today. Reilly Bodycomb, Mike Ruesch, and Doug Fournet all take home gold medals! Anthony Sansonetti takes home a silver medal because he also made it to the finals along with fellow team mate Doug Fournet!

      Tim Fowler of Team Renegade fought December 5th on Evolution Holiday havoc, he lost a decision after 3 tough rounds. The fight was extremely close, Tim fought his heart out and represented his team well! We look forward to Tim fighting again in early 2011.

Tim's fight can be seen at the link below:

http://www.gofightlive.tv/playVideo.do?videoId=3959&resolution=Medium

      Congratulations to Team Renegade Fighter Ben Syers in his recent Title Fight victory over Bobby Ascolillo. Ben needed just 4 seconds to KO his opponent and win the Evolution MMA 140lb Championship Belt!

           Team Renegade member  Tim Fowler competed in the all Army Combatives Tournament held at Ft. Benning Georgia. Tim, a Sgt First Class in the US Army, competed in a division stacked with over 60 of the best Army Combatives fighters from all over the world. He made it through to the 3rd opponent before being eliminated from the tournament. Below is a video of his 2nd match of the day.

      A very hot and humid July has come and gone. Hopefully August won't be quite so hot! It can make training very difficult to get through at times. Nonetheless, we had great training and very good competition results this month.

      Ben Syers fought on the evolution MMA July Bash fight card. Ben fought a very strong opponent, Jamie Hadzima, but was able to secure a Guillotine choke in the 2nd round and win by submission. It was great to see Ben get his first victory and we are all very proud of him! Ben is scheduled to fight again in Atlantic City on September 11th. We hope some of you can come out and join us for the fight. MMA, gambling, fun!!!

       On July 17th Team Renegade members made their way to Fishkill, NY for the NY State Grappling Champioships. Long time Team Renegade member Luis Mendoza stole the show winning 1st place in the heavyweight division, Luis weighs 200lbs but went up against some real monsters weighing over 270 lbs! He won the heavweight division submitting all of his opponents. He also won 3rd in masters. Way to go Little Luis! Competing in the Teens Division, Matt Dixon won 2nd place. It was Matt's first grappling competition and is just 14 years old and has a lot of potential. Coach Jeremy Piaser won 1st place in the advanced division. James Daly competed for the first time, his opponent quickly pulled guard and threw on a triangle choke. James defended well but eventually lost his match on points. Jesse Divers won his first match from his guard with a very smooth Kimura to Guillotine combination, exactly how we do it in practice! Awesome! Danny Kuhlmann won 2nd place in his division, winning both of his matches with Keylocks. Danny also displayed his excellent wrestling ability. Taylor Costantino with less than 1 year of total grappling entered the intermediate division. Taylor showed a lot of heart vs a very experienced wrestler, and had many submission attempts but could not secure the win. Steve Brumberg competed for the first time and had some very good matches. All in all it was a very good day for the team!

Here are the individual hours each team member trained:

Only actual training hours were calculated. Talking after training is not credited as training time!

Taylor Costantino            62.5 Hours

Ben Syers                         49 Hours

Jesse Divers                    22 Hours

Tim Fowler                      17.5 Hours

Jerome Reyes                17 Hours

Steve Brumberg             13.5 Hours

Rich Romano                 12 Hours

James Daly                      9 Hours

Tim Hickey                       9 Hours

Rob Robinson                5 Hours

Jeff Houck                       4.5 Hours

Joe Peralta                     4 Hours

Kevin Crean                   2 Hours

Danny Kuhlmann           2 Hours

Steve Zangrillo                0 Hours

Pan Yamniyom               0 Hours

     Some of the team members were injured or on vacation for part of the month. Pan Yamniyom was away in Thailand training, Jeff Houck was away for Marine Core training, and several others were also away. The team members training the most are clearly gaining the most skill and are on target to fight within the next year. Some team members just need to make more of an effort to consistently make training or risk being cut from the team.

     Upcoming events for the team include grappling at the Strong Island Grappling Challenge August 22nd, Ben Syers fights September 11th in Atlantic City, and Tim Fowler is competing at the Army Combatives Tournament the first weekend in October. I am looking forward to the next 2 months of training and competitions. See you on the Mat!

May has come and gone, and I am very happy with the progress of the team so far. the enthusiasm on the mats is awesome! Each month I will be posting the hours trained by each team member.

Ben Syers, in usual fashion trained every hour of available time from may 12th to June 1st. That's why he is the team captain. His dedication to training is remarkable. He has a fight coming up, but he typically trains this much week in and week out. He also runs sprints and does plyometrics on top of his MMA training.

  Here are the individual hours each Team member trained:

  May 12th to June 1st total training hours by each Team Renegade member. There was a total of 10 available days of training during this time period.

Only actual training hours were calculated. Talking after training is not credited as training time!

Ben Syers                       29 hours

Jeff Houck                       21.5 hours

Jesse Divers                  21 hours

Taylor Costatino            18.5 hours

Danny Kuhlmann          17 hours

Rich Romano                16 hours

Eddie Picun                   14.5 hours

Josh Sailor                     14.5 hours

Jeff Arroyo                      14.5 hours

Chris Fleitas                  14.5 hours

Tim Hickey                      14 hours

James Daly                    12 hours

Joe Peralta                     11.5 hours

Jerome Reyes               11.5 hours *

Tim Fowler                      11.5 hours

Steve Brumberg             11 hours

Rob Robinson                9.5 hours *

Kevin Crean                    9 hours

Steve Zangrillo                9 hours

Pan Yamniyom               8.5 hours *

* Injured for part of the month. Injury = something that requires medical attention. Colds (short of the plague), and bumps and bruises do not count.

 Total combined team training time = 288.5 hours

 Average team member training time= 14.5 hours