Rob Klink started his Brazlian Jiu Jitsu journey at The Cellar Gym back in 2008, today he was promoted to BJJ and Checkmat Black Belt! Although he moves around a lot, and now spends his summers in Alaska as a…
2014 Seemed to fly by faster than other years, but now we remember why. Lots of great moments and lots of miles traveled! 14+ Regional, National, and North American Championship Titles including 5 champions at the Thai Boxing Association-Sanctioning Authority…
Marcelo Nunes and other jiu jitsu students from The Cellar traveled to Oak Lawn, IL over the weekend to compete in FIVE Grappling's Illinois 2 tournament. Marcelo won his Black Belt gi division and all of our students brought home…
Saturday night at Canterbury Park we strapped a GoPro camera to the head of one of Marcelo's cornermen to get an up close view of the action. Check out the video and big thanks to Rob for capturing some great…
It was a very good weekend for The Cellar's BJJ students who competed at the spring St. Croix Valley Grappling Games in Hudson, WI. We only had 4 participants competing at this event, but all four performed tremendously; we even…
On Friday evening Marcelo Nunes promoted 3 BJJ students to the rank of purple belt and one to the rank of blue belt. The four candidates met with Marcelo individually earlier in the week to demonstrate their technical knowledge of…
On Sunday afternoon The Cellar hosted BJJ Black Belt, Tom Schmitz for a special seminar. Tom taught techniques, answered questions, evaluated students and held mini in-house tournaments. At the completion of the event Tom promoted several of our students in rank…
Congratulations to Rob Klink for becoming The Cellar’s newest Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt on Thursday night. Rob started training in Jiu Jitsu at The Cellar in August of 2008 and has 2 First Places finishes at the Midwest Submission…