This past weekend Fight 2 Win, one of the biggest and most exciting promotions in the world of Jiu Jitsu, returned to Minnesota for F2W Pro 78. The event was held at the Lakeville Hasse Arena on June 30th. There…
On May 29th, Michelle Donovan was promoted to purple belt under Professor Mauricio Carra with team Checkmat. Coach Michelle started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu six and a half years ago. She has been instructing The Cellar Gym's youth Jiu Jitsu…
On March 7th – 11, We had 5 BJJ competitors travel along with Professor Mauricio to compete at the 2018 IBJJF Pan Ams Tournament. Everyone did an excellent job and we are very proud of each of their performances! Andy…
Our Jiu Jitsu team arrived in Irvine, California today to compete at the 2018 IBJJF Pan Ams tournament. We have 5 competitors in total and 2 competed today. Andy Young won his first match 12-0 in the Adult Men's Blue…
Want to help your child practice at home? Check out the video to see Coach Michelle Donovan and Coach Aidan finish the "Hip escape drill" from last week and show how you can do this with your child!
Coach Michelle leads us in a hip escape drill that you or your child can do at home! Stay tuned for the second half of the video when she explains how you can do this drill with a friend..
This weekend, Saturday, June 25th was The Cellar Gym's bi-annual Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Belt testing. This was the first group belt promotion since Professor Mayko and Karen arrived last year. It was a great event and we had many students…
Competition at the 2016 IBJJF World Championships are complete and we are very proud of all our Cellar Gym/CheckMat competitors! This was the first Worlds tournament for many on our team and they did awesome! We won some great matches…
The Cellar Gym and Checkmat Minneapolis had a fantastic showing with 8 competitors at the IBJJF Pan Ams in Irvine, CA this past weekend. Ethan Baumann, Michelle Donovan and Kaitlin Youwer competed on Thursday and Kevin Skadsheim competed on Friday.…