NEWS

• August 20, 2008 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Ken Colpo on his promotion to the rank of purple belt and Jason Davis on his promotion to the rank of blue belt. Congratulations gentlemen and keep up the good work! 

• August 2, 2008 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Chris Kriebel and Daniel Taylor for their performances in the Ohio Grappling Challenge. Chris Kriebel won first place in the No-Gi Intermediate division and first place in the White Belt Gi Division. Daniel took first place in the Master's No-Gi Beginners Divison and third place in the White Belt Gi Divion. Congratulations to both men on great performances.
• July 18, 2008 - Eduardo conducted a successful seminar in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Everyone learned a lot and had a great time!

• June 11, 2008 - Congratulations go out Zac Stanley on his promotion to the rank of Blue Belt! Way to go Zac!
• May 27, 2008 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Nick Jones on his promotion to Blue Belt! Great job Nick, keep up the hard work!
• May 9, 2008 - We've updated the links page, so check it out!
• April 26 and 27, 2008 - The Dudu Barros Jiu Jitsu Academy would like to thank Mario Sperry for a fantastic two day seminar. We would also like to thank the 55 people who attended and helped to make the event a huge success. We hope to see Mr. Sperry again soon!

• April 27, 2008 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Jay Nance on his promotion to brown belt; Kris McLeod to the rank of purple belt; Kyle Price, Kevin Lucas, and Lee Claburn to the blue
  belt. These individuals were promoted at the Mario Sperry seminar. Congratulations to all and keep up the good work. 
• April 2008 - Congratulations to Jay Nance who won two bronze metals at the Jiu Jitsu Pan American Games in California. Jay won third place in his weight division, as well as third place in the absolute purple belt division. There were over 30 competitors in Jay's division and he won four matches in one day to place in third. Great job Jay!
• March 22, 2008 - Student Frankie Fasline won first place on his division at the Joslin's 2007 Canadian open Grappling Championships on Nov 11th 2007. We apolotize in getting this news up so late, but we were only able to get details this past week. Frankie won the advanced division 129-146 lbl. He won 3 fights and 2 by submission. Great job Frankie!!!
• March 16, 2008 - The Dudu Barros Jiu Jitsu academy was featured on 90.3 WCPN public radio. Volunteers from the academy worked the stations fund drive during the Garrison Keillor show and was mentioned five times during the program. Special thanks to all who volunteered to help this worthy cause. 
• March 6, 2008 - On January 14th of this year, Dudu promoted Mitchell Peters to the Purple Belt and Matt Waterhouse to the Brown Belt. Matt is now Dudu's highest ranking student. Great job to both of them and all their hard work in picking up their new ranks! On January 26th, Paul Bartholet won 1st Place at the Michigan Jiu-Jitsu Championship as well as taking 1st place at the Strongstyle Tournament on February 16th. Additionally, Frank Fasline won 1st place in his division at the Arnold Classic in Columbus this past weekend. Congratulations for starting out the year with so many wins!
• January 17, 2008 - Dudu has been featured in the #77 issue of Brazil Explore Magazine. Flip to page 20 and you can read all about it in either Portuguese or English.
• December 3, 2007 - Nate Black won 1st Place in his division at the Naga Ohio on December 1st. Ali Cardenas and Zac Stanley both took 2nd place. For all three students, this was their first time competing. Congratulations and great first showing to Nate, Ali and Zac!!!
• November 23, 2007 - Student Paul Bartholet won the Midwest Tournment this pastNovember 11th. Student Malia Koenig was also promoted to the Blue Belt on October 12th, she is Dudu's first female student to get promoted to Blue Belt. Great job Paul and congratulations to Malia!
• September 24, 2007 - Eduardo has moved his gym to a larger facility, west of his downtown location. The new address has been added to the website and more details will follow soon.
• September 24, 2007 - Congratulations to student Brian Boucher who won first place in his no-gi division at the Ohio Grappling Challenge IV on August 4th.
• August 1, 2007 News Roundup, it's been a while since we've had an update and Dudu was able to give us some great news for what is turning out to be a great summer.
  • Student Brian Boucher won first place on the 205lb division at the Midwest Grappling Open in June. Great job Brian!
  • At the Naga Ohio in Columbus Dudu headed down with 8 students ready to compete. They were able to bring home 7 medals (or swords), fantastic job!
    
    • John Hardman got 1st place as a GI Blue Belt Cruiser Weight and 1st place as NO-GI Men’s Intermediate Cruiser Weight
    • Bob Bressi got 3rd place as a GI White Belt Light Weight.(He won 2 matches, 1 by sumimission at his first tournment)
    • Greg Hammerton got 1st place as a GI Masters Blue Belt Feather Weight.
    • Jay Nance got 1st place as a GI Masters Purple Belt Cruiser Weight.
• April 28, 2007 - Congratulations to Chris Melillo for taking first place as a White Belt and Bradley Parks who took Second Place as a Blue Belt at a regional grappling tournament in Lexington, OH. Congratulations also to Jeff Howell, Greg Hammerton, and Bryan Stevens for all being promoted to Blue Belt. Great work guys!
• March 20, 2007 - Congratulations to Frank Fasline and Bradley Parks for their promotions to Blue Belt. Great Job!
• March 14, 2007 - At the Gracie Nationals this year, Frank Fasline took first place; Jay Nance got second; Tony Demercado, David Montgomery,and Romulo Vinhaes got third place. Fantastic Job!
• January 27, 2007 - This past Saturday at the Midwest Grappling Open in Cleveland, several students did very well. Frankie Fasline and Luke Colpo took first place. Paul Bartholet, David Montgomery took second place and Bradley Parks and Chris Melillo took third.
• January 7, 2007 - Frankie Fasline get's interviewed by John Kovach of the Youngstown Vindicator. Frankie talks about his recent wins in Canada, his training and the support he gets from his parents. Check it out "Hubbard's Fasline is a hit in Brazilian jiujitsu"
• December 28, 2006 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate the promotions of Romulo Vinhaes to the Blue belt and Todd Meighen and James Soroky to Purple belt. In a stunning display of technique, student Frankie Fasline, who is just 15 years old, won a tournment in Canada. He defeated all of his 7 opponents by submission in less than 20 seconds. Dudu believes Frankie is just amazing. Great job Frankie!
• November 2, 2006  - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Jason Yerkey and David Montgomery on their promotion to the rank of Blue Belt.
• October 28, 2006 - Congratulations to Frankie Fasline who won both the gi and no-gi divisions at a tournment this weekend in Akron.
• October 2, 2006  - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Jason Willard on his promotion to the rank of Purple Belt and John Hardman to the rank of Blue Belt. Way to go Jason and John.
• August 30, 2006 - Check out Eduardo performing the Tornado Sweep!
• August 29, 2006 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Ken Colpo on his promotion to the rank of Blue Belt. Way to go Ken - keep up the hard work!
• July 22, 2006 - Congratulations to John Hardman who took first place, David Montgomery who took second place and Paul Bartholet as well as Jon Dormo who both place third in the NAGA Ohio in Reynoldsburg. We also Congratulate Paul Bartholet for his Promotion to Purple Belt this month as well. Great Job Paul!
• June 14, 2006 - Congratulations to Paul Bartholet who won the Fists Against Hunger benefit tournament. Paul also won the Kumite Classic Jiu Jitsu Tournament. Congratulations also go out to Bob Jones and Frankie Fasline who also took first place at the Kumite Classic. We would also like to recognize Jason Yerkey who took second place at his very first tournament. Great job guys! Keep up the good work!
• May 17, 2006 - Congratulations for the promotions of Adam Miller to the blue belt and Luke Colpo to the yellow belt. Also Daniel Christian won his first competition as a white belt in Mansfield, good job Daniel!
• April 24, 2006 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Mitchell Peters who was promoted to the rank of blue belt. Congratulations and keep up the good work! 
• February 4, 2006 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Jeremy Good who was promoted to the rank of purple belt after winning his division at the Gracie Nationals. Congratulations!
• February 4, 2006 - Congratulations to all of the students of Dudu Barros Jiu Jitsu Academy that participated in the Arnold Schwartezenegger / Gracie National Jiu Jitsu Championship
  Here are the Results
• Jeremy Good won his blue belt division winning 4 matches to take the gold. 
• Adam Bell won a silver in his blue belt division. Adam had 45 competitors in his division, he won 4 matches 3 by submission. It was his first competition as a blue belt. 
• Adam Miller took a silver in the white belt masters divsion. Adam won 3 matches - an excellent showing at his very first tournament. 
• Frankie Fasline won the bronze. He lost in the semi-finals to a much larger and heavier opponent. He made an excellent showing.
• January 27, 2006 - Congratulations to Jeremy Good  who won 1st place the advanced No-gi divison, and 1st place in the blue belt gi division at NAGA - Florida. 
• January 27, 2006 - Congratulations to Glenn Hall  who placed 4th in his division at NAGA - Florida.
• February 11, 2006 - To celebrate the grand opening of Dudu Barros' new academy, Vitor 'Shaolin' Ribeiro conducted a seminar. Thanks to all participated in the seminar and special thanks to Shaolin for his wonderful instruction.
• February 2, 2006 - The staff of  www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to express our condolences to the family and friends of Carlson Gracie Sr. who passed away yesterday. The world mourns the loss of a true martial arts master.

 
Dudu with the late Carlson Gracie Sr.

• January 6, 2006 - Eduardo Barros is pleased to announce the opening of his new academy.
  
• December 5, 2005 - Congratulations to Ben Pettit on his promotion to Blue belt, and Mathew Waterhouse on his promotion to Purple. Great job guys! Keep practicing!

• October 15, 2005 - Congratulations to Jay Nance on his promotion to the rank of Purple Belt. Great job and keep up the hard work! 

•  October 15, 2005 - Congratulations to Ben Pettit and Jay Nance they both won 3rd place at the Gracie Nationals in Columbus, OH

• July 2005 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Eduardo 'Dudu' Barros on his promotion to black belt! Eduardo was visiting Brazil with two of students, Paul Bartholet and Jay Nance, and was awarded the rank of black belt by his teacher Andre Pederneiras. Congrats Du on a well deserved promotion!!!!

•  Congratulations to Paul Bartholet and Jay Nance, both of whom competed in Brazil and made a good showing! 

• June 11, 2005 - Dudu Barros Jiu Jitsu wishes to congratulate Jeremy Good on winning The Florida NAGA. He won the intermediate No-Gi and Blue Belt Gi divisions. Great job Jeremy!

•  March 31, 2005 - Congratulations to James Terlecki and Michael Grossman, both of whom were promoted to the rank of Purple Belt. Good job guys

•  March 31, 2005 - Congratulations to Adam Bell, who won his weight division as well as the absolute division and took 2nd place fighting no gi at the Ohio Pro Am in Columbus, OH. Way to go Adam!

•  March 31, 2005 - Congratulations to Ben Pettit. Ben took 3rd place at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic in Columbus, OH. Ben competed in the absolute division juvenile division as a white belt. He fought much heavier and more experienced opponents. Very impressive considering he has only been taking lessons for 2 months! Way to go Ben!

•  October 17, 2004 - The website has been updated. If you experience any problems with this site please contact the webmaster.

• September 1, 2004 - Robson Moura Seminar in Ohio - Robson Moura, black belt under Nova Uniao will be teaching a BJJ Seminar In Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Robson is 5x World Champion, 9x National Champion and Shooto Japan Veteran.
  
• Date: Saturday, October 9th - Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• For more info contact Dudu Barros at dudu@dudubarrosjj.com or 330-281-9444 

•  June 26, 2004 - The staff at www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate Paul Bartholet for his first place finish at the Ohio Pro-Am Grappling Championships. Paul won all of his matches without a single point being scored against him. Great job Paul!!

• June 12, 2004 - The staff at www.dudubarrosjj.com would like to congratulate the following students on their fine performance at The Grappling Classic Summer Trials: Jason Bartram - Gold Medal / Super Heavy Weight Division; Tom Marks - Silver Medal / Medium Heavy Weight Divison; Tom Marks - Bronze Medal / White Absolute Division. Great job guys

•  April 10, 2004 - An Eduardo Barros Seminar was featured in ADCC News

• October 15, 2003 - The staff of www.dudubarrosjj.com wishes to congratulate the following individuals on their promotions: Fred Parrish - Blue Belt; Jeremy Good - Blue Belt.

• On Saturday, October 25th Andre Pederneiras was  in town to conduct a seminar. You can see some pictures from the event on the pictures page.

• October 20, 2003 - The Eduardo Barros Jiu Jitsu team participated in the Relson Gracie U.S. Nationals in Columbus, OH. The team took home 6 medals, 3 of which were gold, and one was for an absolute championship. Great Job guys and keep up the hard work!

• April 2003 - Eduardo Barros is the featured interview of the month at www.jiu-jitsu.net

• March 2nd, 2003 - Congratulations to Nate Ortiz for placing third in his Division at the Arnold Schwartzenegger Gracie Nationals in Columbus, OH. Congratulations to Eric and Glenn for a great showing at their first major tournmament. Keep up the good work!

• December 9th, 2002 - Watch for an upcoming interview at www.jiu-jitsu.net!

• August 7th, 2002 -  Eduardo Barros has just returned from Brazil where he has been intensely training   Jiu-Jitsu with his instructor Andre Pederneiras. While in Brazil, Dudu competed in the World Jiu-Jitsu Championships. He lost his match on points, in the face of what can only be referred to as "questionable officiating". Dudu being the good sport , as always,  responded to charges of poor officiating by saying, "It doesn't matter. I can do better. I made mistakes that gave him points that cost me the match. I know I can do better! Next time I will go for the submission and take the decision out of the judges hands."

• August 5th, 2002 - Dudu was awarded the rank of brown belt by his instructor, Andre Pederneiras. Dudu will now represent the Nova Uniao Jiu Jitu Team in the Brown Belt Division. Congratulations Du!