Submission wrestling (SW)
Målet är att kvala till VM som går av stapeln i september 2009.
Antingen kan man kvala genom att vinna "kvaltävlingar" eller genom andra tävlingar. För två år sedan kvalade jag genom meriter, jag fick inbjudan av organisatörer av ADCC European Trials SW
Man kan alltså skicka in sin cv . Så jag kommer tävla mycket i SW nu, som redan nämnt om allt löser sig med ekonomi så åker jag till USA i augusti för att tävla i World No-gi Champ.
Om SW kan du läsa mer på Budo och Kampsportsförbundets hemsida:
http://www.budo.se/vara_idrotter/sw.shtml
En text om förra kvaltävlingen
http://onthemat.com/articles/ADCC_European_Trials_2007_Preview__03_19_2007_page_3.html
60kg+ Female category
No previous Trials Winner
Other qualifiers: Jennifer Guiola. (Sweden); Monica Vanessa Silva. (Portugal); Marloes Coenen. (Holland); Kunz Sandra. (Germany); Devi Ahuja (Norway); Camilla Gjelsten (Norway); Dusi Bozovic (Denmark); Ella Rudfeldt (Sweden); Arnela Hadzisulejmanovic (Sweden);
This group boasts four BJJ world champions, Silva and Gjelsten have both won Purple Belt Gold at the Mundials, Monica in 2006 and Camilla in 2005. Guiola won the Copa Do Mundo and Ahuja the Mundials at Blue Belt in 2006.
Silva has also picked up European gold at Blue Belt in 2005, Silver at Purple Belt in 2006 and Gold at Purple in 2007. Camilla additionally won the Purple Belt Gold at the 2006 Europeans, beating Monica in the process. Camilla has ADCC World Championship experience on her CV too, having fought at ADCC 2005, losing to Australian grappler Stacy Cartwright.
This is a tough group however, Monica and Camilla aside, Rudfeldt, Ahuja and Hadzisulejmanovic (and you thought Brazilian names were difficult to pronounce) have all medaled at the Europeans in BJJ, a number of them have medaled or won at the Scandinavian Open and all the competitors here have deep experience in no gi competition.
Equally tough competition will come in the form of the Swedish grappler Jennifer Guiola. Guiola, who works as a nightclub bouncer and has taken gold at the Copa Do Mundo and the Europeans and silver at the Mundials.
My pick for this category is none of these ladies however. The Dutch MMA fighter Marloes Coenen, who also fought at ADCC 2005, beating Yuuki Kondo in the 60kg+ quarter finals before losing to Cartwright in the Semi finals. She swiftly got revenge over Cartwright, beating her in the Absolute quarter finals but was injured in the process and could not continue. She is a very experienced fighter, currently 11-1-0, with most coming by way of submission - some readers may remember her spectacular flying armbar on the American MMA fighter Becky Levi, which broke Becky's arm. Her only loss was to another US fighter, Erin Toughill.
She is physically bigger than most of this relatively lightweight category and I think her experience and strength will prove decisive here.
