Smile & Roll welcomes you to the Terere Kids Project Charity Event hosted at Nine Nine 99 HQ in San Diego by Blue belt phenom of Terere Kids Project, Jhonathan Marques with the help of friends Thomas Oyarzun (of TKP) and Master Eduardo Telles (of Nine Nine Jiu-jitsu). The event will contribute in raising funds to support Jhonathan Marques and Terere Kids Project.
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Participation to the event is: 30$
Participants may offer extra donation
You’ve probably seen them around
Europe during Terere Kids Project’s European Charity Tour. Maybe you’ve seen
them once or twice in Rio, but now they’ve FINALLY arrived in the U.S.
Thomas “Mastwo” Oyarzun and
Jhonathan “Moicano” Marques will be giving another Charity Seminar in U.S
ground, organized by Smile & Roll and hosted at Nine Nine HQ (June 11th)
Smile & Roll helps us one more time with our special collaboration t-shirts:
SHOYOROLL x TERERE KIDS
PROJECT Presents:
THE FAVELA SMILE T-SHIRT
*Limited Edition*
ONLY available at the Terere Kids Project Charity Event on
Sunday 11th of June at Eduardo Telles' Nine Nine HQ, in San Diego.
Kids:10am-12pm
Adults: 1pm-3pm
Make sure to order yours and get your t-shirt game on point for summer ‘17.
Contact and follow Smile & Roll on Facebook or Instagram for more details on the Charity Event and to find out how you can pick up a shirt in San Diego.
Pre-order: 30$ *** Pre-order and pick up at venue. Pre-order message @smileandroll. Pre-order ends Friday 2nd June 2017 at 11pm ***
Can't Make it to San Diego?
T-shirts will then be available for 35$ at: FT Academy 12 Rua Alberto Campos, Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. . Size: XS/S/M/L/XL .
Thanks to Smile & Roll we will also have a limited amount of 30 t-shirt to be purchased online at:
Sponsored athlete Jhonathan Marques aka Moicano recently traveled to San Diego, California to compete in IBJJF Pan Kids.
The trip was the result of a lot of hard work both on and off of the mats. As many Brazilian athletes know, acquiring an American visa is no easy task. After paying US$250 each, both Moicano and his chaperone were denied their visas. Both of them were able to raise the funds to reapply, but unfortunately, Moicano's sponsor was denied again for the SECOND time despite having correctly completed the paperwork and paid for an agency to help file.
With only a week before the competition, 14 year old Moicano had his visa, but no one to travel with him. At the last minute Alister, a good friend and native of San Diego stepped in and offered travel with Moicano, let him stay with his and his family, and accompany him to the tournament.
So with only a few days till the tournament, Pedro Bessa, A friend of Terere's that lives in England, purchased plane tickets for both Moicano and Alister to head to the 2016 Pan Kids.
All of his hard work and dedication paid off! Moicano won his first two fights via submission (choke) and then went on to win in the finals via points (2-0) making him the 2016 Pan Kids Champion.
The rest of us from Terere Kids Project were able to stream the fights live in the Cantagalo favela thanks to Flograppling.com!
This will hopefully be the first trip abroad for many of our FT students! Next year we hope to return to Pan Kids with more athletes!
Moicano and Telles meeting with Jimmy Johnson owner of our FT affiliate in England.
Longboarding in San Diego to relax before competing on Sunday.
We'd like to thank everyone that sent support to Terere Kids Project in order to make this dream come true.
Terere Kids Project is happy to announce a new partnership
with Academia Gorila from Poland. Academia Gorila has agreed to monthly
donations to help support Gabriel Barcelar and Caue da Silva. In addition to
making sure that these two are cover on a monthly basis, they have also
committed to trying to raise additional funds amongst their clients! Its
through this type of support from the international BJJ community that Terere
Kids Project has been able to thrive, creating more and more opportunities to
the athletes from the Cantagalo Favela.
It is thanks to them and some friends from Bronx Jiu Jitsuthat we are able to end the year in bang! In the last couple of months we have
managed to:
Moicano, Professor Fabricio, and Gabriel Peixoto
1.Sponsor Jhonathan Marques (Moicano) to get his
Passport and Visa. Thanks to Artur Cantu from California, Jhonathan will be
spending up to a month in states and competing in PanKids!
2.Sponsor Professor Julio Nogueira’s visa so that
he can accompany Moicano as a Chaperone.
Gabriel Peixoto in Sao Paulo at his first IBJJF competition
3.Send Gabriel Peixoto alongside Professor
Birrinho to compete in IBJJF Sulamericanos in Sao Paulo.
4.Register Professor Birrinho in IBJJF BJJ Pro,
IBJJF Sulamerican, and and UAE Grand Slam (IBJJF and UAE are synonymous with
EXPENSIVE, we have never been able to sponsor athletes for these major comps!)
And lastly in the next couple of
days we will be
5.Registering a team of 20 athletes to end the
year competing in Copa America December 12th
Special feature written by Terere's student Andrew Morris, aka Moz, who spent a year training in the mecca of Jiu Jitsu living it up favela style in the Cantagalo community alongside his hero, Fernando Terere. Read more from Moz on his blog Tales from Deep Half.
After
spending an entire year training at Terere's Academy in Ipanema, Rio, I felt
very much part of the family. It had been a pleasure to train each day with the
children and teens of the social project as well as my adult counterparts. So
returning after a nine month absence I couldn't wait to get on the mats and see
the maturation of these young athletes. What I wasn't prepared for, was
spending an inordinate amount of time trying to kill one of them.
Terere’s
social project has a Jiu-Jitsu protégé, Jhonathan Marques or 'Moricano'
(mohawk) as he is affectionately known to his team mates and any unfortunate
gringo who happens to visit the FT academy. He is a fourteen year old orange
belt who lives with his Mum and sister in the Pavao section of the Cantagalo
favela. The same community which raised his mentor and mestre, Fernando Terere
as well as many other stars of the sport including Jackson Sousa and Alan
Finfou and Bruno Matias.
During
my first stint at the academy Moricano stood out as a young, hard working yellow
belt who already possessed a ridiculously difficult Miyao brothers-esque
guard. His guard retrieval was awesome and I used to love trying to pass this
tricky guard using the appropriate amount of pressure for a twelve year old who
weighs sixty kilos.
My
first night back, I was straight on the mats to witness him obliterate
competition level blue belts as well giving purple and brown belts a torrid
time. I wasn't able to roll with my young friend that night and due to a
competition at the weekend (which he won), I had to wait until Monday to try to
test his game. After seeing how devastating his game had become, my weekend was
spent wisely discussing with prior victims how to pass this guard. Admittedly,
I spent far too much time over those two days fathoming the game of a fourteen
year old and how I planned to kill it.
When Monday came, I
was primed and ready to go. I was then more than elated when I passed his guard
to the cheers of onlookers in the academy. With the awareness he was
essentially a child, I resisted the urge to jump up and bust out my victory
dance. However the balance was truly restored when I spent the next five
minutes trying to desperately avoid being swept in his Rubix Cube like guard
game. Then the inevitable occurred in the last 20 seconds, as I posted to
defend a sweep the little dude arm-barred me.
Whilst writing this,
I worked out that I had rolled with him six times, each round lasting seven minutes, so that is forty two minutes of combined mat time. During that entire time, I have passed
his guard on that sole occasion. Going back to that 'appropriate amount of pressure' I
mentioned previously, that has not factored in at all. Each time we roll, I
literally attempt to kill him, using every single bit of pressure I can amass
but to no avail! He is unquestionably a phenom with an outstanding all-around
game that doesn’t simply rely on this devastating guard, which he explains originates from studiously pouring over the game's of the Mendes Brothers and Keenan
Cornelius. He has rapid fire submissions coupled with tenacious passing which
he has achieved by studying another of his favourite competitors
Leandro Lo.
Moricano
is a shining example of the incredible, transformative program at the FT
Academy. He came up through the children's program before training in the
adults class. Furthermore he balances full-time schooling with a full-time
commitment to Jiu-Jitsu. This hard-work has paid dividends as he has amassed an
awesome amount of medals. This past April, he traveled to Sao Paulo and became
a Brazilian Nation Champion at the IBJJF Brazilian Nationals which is one of
the most prestigious competitions in the Jiu-Jitsu calender. This is in
addition to a whole host of other titles including back to back victories in
the last two weekends in the the FJJD Mineirio & CBJJO Mundials
respectively.
The perils of the
favela and the street life which tempts so many of its youth is not something which is a concern for Moricano. He sees his future as traveling the world
competing in Jiu-Jitsu, his ultimate goal is to become a world champion. As
well as one day settling down in his own academy. As a good looking and
successful young dude, the only thing I could see standing in his way is the
allure of the opposite sex. However when I questioned him on this, he reassured
me that he was in a committed relationship with Jiu-Jitsu, this might be the best answer I have
received for any question ever!
A special debt of
gratitude to BJJ Hacks for putting this together putting this technique video
of Moricano's favourite technique the Berimbolo.
