La Open and Rodtigo Medeiros

This Saturday, Nov. 14th, is the Louisiana Open. This will be the last BJJ tournament in Louisiana this year. We ask that all our students participate, as not to get to rusty over the holidays. All Blacklist Martial Arts students are to Reg. as BJJ Revolution Team! We are very prod to be an BJJ Revolution affiliate under Tim Creduer. If you can not compete in the tournament we asked that you go and support you team, cheer and coach. For more information please visit http://www.bjjhome.com/.

Coming to Blacklist in 2010 will be our new kickboxing program, Kru Muay Thai Kickboxing. Students will progress similar to our BJJ program. Blacklist will be teaching a progressive curriculum designed by Master Ace. Students will progress in levels (Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3) as they progress in skill level. This will help the students learn according to there skill level. Our program will be overseen by one of the best Muay Thai kickboxing instructors and Fartex director, Master Ace. Class will be much more uniform and discipline. We will bow similar to our BJJ class and have a Team Blacklist / Kru Muay Thai shirts, that will be worn for class. I've wanted to learn traditional Muay Thai for some time now and I'm very excited!

This Sunday, November 15th, Our Head BJJ & MMA coach, "Crazy" Tim Credeur will be hosting a BJJ seminar at Gladiators of Lafayette. This seminar will be taught by Rodrigo Medeiros, Tim's BJJ instructor. Rodrigo is the founder of six time national Championship team, BJJ Revolution. He's a Carlson Gracie 4th Degree Blackbelt and Abu Dhabi Champion.
Details:
Youth BJJ - 1:00pm - 2:00pm. Pre pay, $30.00. At door, $40.00.
Adult BJJ - 2:30pm - 5:30pm. pre pay, $60.00. At door, $80.00
Copies of Rodrigo's book, The Essential Guard, along with t-shirts & BJJ Revolution Team Gear will be available for sale at the seminar. Tim Credeur and Rodrigo Medeiros will present a belt ceremony for deserving students. Rodrigo will also be signing autographs!

All participants will enjoy jambalaya, water and Gatorade free of charge. There are only 60 spots available, so reserve your spot now with Tim Credeur. Due to high demand, Pre-payment is strongly urged.
Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity!
337-356-8643

Friday, Nov. 20th from 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Blacklist will be hosting a free youth self defense seminar at Blacklist in Mathews. Come learn the basic fundamentals of BJJ that has made it one of the best self defense systems in the world. One hour of fun, throws, sweeps and reversals! Free and open to the public!
Youth ages 5 - 12.

November Events

Blacklist Class Schedule

Blacklist Mathews - (985)532-8348

Personal training available

Monday & Wednesday- Business Hours, 3:00pm - 8:00pm.
Open Gym- 3:00pm - 8:00pm

Cardio Kickboxing/Crossfit - 6:00pm (Cy mat 1)

BJJ Fundamentals - 7:00pm (Cy mat 2)

Tuesday & Thursday- Business hours, 3:00pm - 9:00pm.
Open Gym - 3:00pm - 8:00pm

Thai Kickboxing - 5:30pm (Cy/Peygan mat 1)

Youth BJJ - 6:30pm (Josh/Shaun mat 1)
No-Gi Advanced- 6:30pm (Buddy/Peygan mat 2)
BJJ Advanced - 7:30pm (Gabe/Derrick mat 1)

Friday - Business Hours, 2:00pm- 6:00pm

Open Gym - 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Saturday - Business Hours, 9:00am - 12:00noon
Youth Thai Kickboxing - 9:30pm (Derrick mat 3)

MMA, Open sparring & No-Gi Open Mat- 10:00am (Derrick/Gabe mat 1)

Blacklist Houma (985)851-2911

Personal training available

Monday & Wednesday- Business Hours, 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Crossfit Open- 4:00pm - 5:30pm (Ben)
Thai Kickboxing - 5:30pm (Derrick)
Youth BJJ - 6:30pm (Derrick/Ben)
BJJ Advanced - 7:30pm (Gabe/Derrick)

Tuesday & Thursday- Business Hours, 4:00pm - 8:00pm.

Crossfit Open - 12:00pm - 2:00pm / 4:00pm - 8:00pm

BJJ all levels - 12:00pm (Derrick)

BJJ NOGI - 5:00pm (Leif)

BJJ Fundamentals - 6:15pm (Gabe)

Saturday

All Classes in Mathews

Local papers writes about Blacklist L.L.C.

Duo prepares for world championships
Perry PitreSports Correspondent
Published: Monday, June 2, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 2, 2008 at 10:56 a.m.

Perry Pitre/Correspondent
Gabe Barahona (left) and Derrick Breaux practice their grappling move in preperation for the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, which begins Thursday in California.

LOCKPORT -- It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday in a small hot building on Main Street. Seven pairs of men and boys, paired off by size, eye each other warily. Derrick Breaux and Gabe Barahona, look around, and give the signal. And everyone begins to grapple.
At Blacklist Mixed Martial Arts, it’s just another day, as the students grasp each other, jockeying for position, leverage, anything to put their opponent on the ground. Elbows hook under knees. Forearms are pushed into opponents’ faces. Sweat rolls profusely.
A buzzer sounds, and the exhausted grapplers relax, panting, as Breaux and Barahona prep for the next drill.
It’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a martial art derived from judo. For Breaux and Barahona, it’s a calling, and a profession. And on this particular Saturday, it’s a final tune up.
Breaux and Barahona will be traveling to California this week, along with 2,000 other athletes, to compete in the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, held at Cal State-Long Beach. There, they will literally grapple with the best of them.
Breaux and Barahona took different roads to end up in the same place.
"A cousin of mine, who’s a black belt in Japanese Jitsu, was in the Marine Corps, and the Marines uses Jitsu for its ground fighting. Back then, in the early 90’s, they had just started Ultimate Fighting in California. So when he moved back to Louisiana, we went into his shed and built a cage and started putting on shows at the local civic centers. I used to help him put on the shows," said Breaux, who had no previous experience with martial arts.
"My cousin is about 5-(foot) 5, and he’s about 135 pounds soaking wet. So one day we’re sitting in the cage, and at the time I was into weightlifting. So we’re messing around, and he just slams me into the ground and chokes me unconscious. I’m out for like 30 seconds. So I wake up, get my bearings, go after him again, and he takes me out again with no effort at all. After that, I had to learn how someone so small could manhandle someone twice as strong as him," Breaux said chuckling.
Barahona said he and Breaux didn’t meet until 2003, but they started training around the same time.
With previous experience in Tae Kwon Do and karate, Barahona wound up fighting in Breaux’s cousin’s promotions, where the two met and began to train together.
"I was working the door, so I kind of knew who Gabe was. I ended up learning a ton from him, so I quit training locally, and started training with him and a few other guys. Since then, we’ve gotten very competitive, and we’re competing at a world level now," Breaux said.
Since they started training, the sport has grown in popularity.
"We matted out the floor in my garage at home and started training," Breaux says. "Then the word started spreading in the neighborhood, and before you know it, neighbors were complaining about all the cars."
Blacklist is currently occupying its second building in its short history, and will soon be moving into a third, larger facility, due to expanding class sizes. Jiu-Jitsu is gaining popularity, the two say, both because of its utility in mixed martial arts fighting and its easy translation into the real world.
"If you look at any bar fight, the two guys throw a couple of really bad punches, then they grab onto each other and start to roll around," Breaux said. "The guy who ends up on top usually wins. That’s the whole point here."
Danny Dufrene of Chauvin, whose son Drey, 11, is a student, said that the self-defense aspect of Jiu-Jitsu appealed to him, but that his son has other motivations.
"He wants to fight in a cage, and they use a lot of this," Dufrene said.
Eric Weaver of Lockport, whose son Joel, 9, grapples with the somewhat-larger Drey, watches the two intently.
"That’s the beauty of it. You’ve got a nine year old and an eleven year old, and the smaller guy can easily keep up and defend himself," Eric Weaver said.
Barahona concentrates on teaching adult classes while Breaux takes charge of the younger students.
"I don’t have any discipline. If the kids want to run around, I don’t have the heart to tell them to stop. So I’ll just say ëOk, y’all run around,’ " Barahona said.
Breaux has a more disciplined approach. School-age students are required to present their report cards.
"Only A’s and B’s are acceptable," Breaux says, adding that lower grades will be met with lots and lots of push-ups.
"They’re either going to be smart, or they’re going to be strong."
Or, they could up being both.
The World Jiu-Jitsu Championships will be held Thursday to Sunday in Long Beach, Calif.

Tri-Parish Times

Jiu-jitsu latest rage at Blacklist By KYLE CARRIER

A joint-lock submission and chokehold may sound like moves that belong in a World Wrestling Entertainment ring, but instead they are the backbone of a form of martial arts gaining interest in the Tri-parishes.When Derrick Breaux and Gabe Barahona opened Blacklist Jiu-Jitsu of Houma in July, they weren't sure what the response would be. After all, there are only two schools that teach the combat sport exclusively. Both are Blacklist sites owned by Breaux and Barahona. The duo opened their first location in Lockport three years ago. Based on the sport's popularity, they decided to open in Houma to expand business. The expansion has paid off so far; enrollment is on the incline. Jiu-jitsu is a Brazilian form of martial arts that uses a variety of locks, holds, grabs and submissions between competitors in an attempt to score pins or get the opponent to submit. Jiu-Jitsu promotes the principle that a smaller, weaker person using leverage and proper technique can successfully defend himself against a bigger, stronger assailant. Because of that, It's an effective form of self-defense, according to Barahona. "It's one of the more practical forms or martial arts," he said. "Jiu-jitsu uses a lot of locks and submission holds. It can get someone out of trouble or danger. They don't need to be proficient at it, but it is useful as a self-defense tool." Unlike traditional martial arts such as karate, tae-kwon-do or others, jiu-jitsu uses a more hands-on approach, especially during competitions. "It's a matter of staying in shape and understanding the competition," Barahona explained. "It's important to make sure you can go the entire match and pick up as many points as you need. In martial arts, the point scoring is more traditional and fitness isn't as big of a part because you'll still get points. "Jiu-jitsu is quite competitive. In fact, federations across the nation hold annual competitions throughout the year. Louisiana has roughly a dozen competitions. Depending on the division, competitors are given a certain time limit during which they can score points by making their opponent submit or by pinning them to the mat. Barohona competes at the national and world level. He recently missed the American Nationals because of the hurricanes, but that hasn't slowed him any. He continues to arrive each day at Blacklist to teach the art of jiu-jitsu to all who are willing to try. In the three years he's been teaching, Barohona said the most common misconception - and his first lesson - involves the number of chokeholds available to competitors. "When I first joined I thought there were only 10 submissions and their weren't many more that that," he recalled. "I was quickly educated that it's not a matter of how many submissions there are but a matter of how many sets are there. You can take one submission, and get to it three different ways ... like an arm bar or a leg lock. "He added, "There are an endless variety of submissions or chokeholds. "Barohona knows locals may know little about the sport, but that's where the idea for Blacklist was derived. "We have guys who have been with us for a while and who came in and just loved the idea of having a school open," he said. "Our kids' program is also a big hit in the area and our adult program has grown. There are a lot of people who hop right into it even they don't quite understand it initially. We offer a variety of classes so they don't have to be with the experienced guys. They can learn at their own pace. If they want to take the training up a notch, it's there. " Classes are available in several age ranges: 4 to 6 years old; 6 to 12 years old; 12 to 15 years old and 15-and-over. Barahona stressed that parents of younger kids don't have to worry about their children working with the older crowd. Instead, they will be with their respective age groups. With the Lockport location undergoing repairs caused by Hurricane Gustav, all operations have moved to the Houma location. All Blacklist enrollees are welcome at the Houma site until work at the Lockport site is completed. "We are definitely going to reopen at that location," he said. "We had great success with it. Our students are begging for it to come back." "We really want to thank the area with the way they responded to us," Barahona added. "We grew up in Houma and it's great to be able to do this for the area."ri-Parish Times

Team Blacklist, a family of martial artist!

*Team Blacklist*

"Crazy" Tim Credeur - 1st Degree BJJ, UFC, MMA & Judo black belt

Derrick Breaux - BJJ Revolution purple belt & Pro MMA

Gabe Barahona - ATT brown belt & Pro MMA

Buddy Kiff - BJJ Blue & Karate Brown belt
Cy Landry - BJJ blue belt & Am MMA
Joshua Guidry - BJJ blue belt
Greg Rodrigue - BJJ Blue belt & Navy

Eric Weaver - BJJ blue belt, wrestling

Tony Anselmi - BJJ blue belt

Paygen Lafont-BJJ blue belt 08/11/08

Eddie Richard-BJJ blue belt 08/11/08

Shaun Rook - BJJ Blue belt 07/02/09

Chad Townsley - BJJ green belt 03/10/08

Brenden Weaver - BJJ green 1 belt 11/17/08

Mariah Martin - BJJ Green Blet

Daniel Rhodes - BJJ Green blet

Christopher Uggen - BJJ Green belt

Stephen Boquet - BJJ Green belt 11/17/08

Jason Broussard - BJJ Green belt 01/14/09

Kevin Klingman - BJJ Green belt 01/05/09

Benjamin Labat - BJJ Green belt 01/01/09

Kayne Collins - BJJ Green 1 belt 06/27/09

Joey Ezell - BJJ Green Belt 07/02/09

Brent Autin - BJJ Green belt 07/02/09

Joel Weaver - BJJ Orange belt
Issic Weaver - BJJ Orange 1 belt 11/17/08

Kaleb Mayon - BJJ Orange 1 belt 04/04/09

Gage Guidry - BJJ Orange 1 belt 08/01/09

Ryan Weaver - BJJ Yellow belt
Zack Robo - BJJ Yellow 1 belt

Hannah Martin - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 04/18/08

Rebeca Martin - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 05/26/08

Brennan Franks - BJJ White w/ Yellow belt

Cameron Blanchard - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 11/17/08

Walker Domangue - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 12/24/08

Ethen Guidry - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 01/01/09

Dominic Guidry - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 06/27/2009

Joseph Leboeuf - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 04/04/2009

Delvin Guidry III - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 04/04/2009

Devin Desormeaux - BJJ Yellow belt 08/01/2009

Brett Naquin - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 06/27/09

Melvin Guidry - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 06/27/09

Levi Bass - BJJ Yellow 1 belt 08/01/09