HLC summer camp

On August 2012 Aspida team was invited in one of the most successful Summer camps in Cyprus. The Healthy Lifestyle camp is a summer camp for kids and teens between the ages of 10 to 15, where they are introduced to new sports, games and activities and spend a week at Agros eating healthily and being active. This is an introductory camp to other sports besides football and basketball.
More than 80 kids attended the camp divided into 4 age groups, all of which experienced all the sports including Brazilian jiu jitsu with me and fellow Aspida member Andreas Prezas.  On the first day I had the opportunity to give a lecture about the sport showing the kids videos and explaining the basic principles and history of BJJ. All the kids were enthusiastic and enjoyed it, and like a sponge quickly took to the sport and started asking questions and were eager to try more techniques. I enjoyed the experience and I hope to repeat this in the future.

1st Cyprus open BJJ competition

The Winners of  Cyprus Open BJJ Competition with Pantelis and Andreas

On July 14, Aspida Team hosted the first Cyprus Open BJJ Competition. The competition was a big success with the exception of the cancellation of one of the local BJJ academy canceling it's participation the day before the event. I find it really sad that even member of the school may have wanted to participate, and for reasons that I can't understand, not one came to the event to show their support or to participate in the first event for a sport which is quickly growing in Cyprus. The important thing is not winning or losing, but participating. A good athlete is not one who never fights (and so has never lost), but one who leave his ego off the matt and fights because he enjoys rolling with others.
We had a great turnout, with many individual players than came from abroad, and other academies in cyprus. We even had spectators who came just watch the even and support the athletes. The atmosphere was exciting and positive, everyone enjoyed themselves. We had over 100 people attend and participate at the event. A very big thank you to everyone who made this first event possible, and to Aspida Team Paphos for their support, and to B-Fit for sponsoring the winner's prizes, and all who supported the athletes.

Final results :

 -70kg 1st Nikolas Mavromatis (Aspidateam Cy)
2nd Paris Kemanes (Aspidateam Cy)

-76kg 1st Dino Kougialis (Aspidateam Cy)
2nd Raphael Kahr (GB Austria)

-82kg 1st Andreas Kailas (Team Lagarto)
2nd Philipp Malik (Aspidateam Cy)

-88kg 1st Giannis Charalambous (Nova Uniao Gr)
2nd Alexandros Matsas (Aspidateam Paphos)

+100kg 1st Panos Petralis (Nova Uniao Gr)
2nd Kiriakos Theodorou (Aspidateam Cy)



Group Photo