Welcome to the official website of Lagrange Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. Lagrange Jiu-jitsu Academy is run by Gracie black belt Chet Schemahorn who has 13 years of jiu-jitsu experience under Rorion and Royce Gracie. Recently Chet has been studying with Ryron and Rener Gracie (Rorion's oldest son's). Chet has put together a top notch academy that will rival any jiu-jitsu academy.

Chet will be teaching a seminar in Lansing Michigan on Sunday May 3rd from 9am - noon. Please contact B.A. for additional information (810)-357-9472.
 
Recent promotions to purple belt:

• Joel Pippenger
• Rob Ross
• Comeron Price
• Aram Bottles
• Thayne Grove
• James Vales

Recent promotions to blue belt:

• Ryan Garcia
• Geoge Etchason
• David Jones
• Rick Brown
• Jennifer Pilgrim
• Darrick Brown
• John Damewood
• Ben Stager

Lagrange Grcie Jiu Jitsu now offers a women only self defense class. The women's only self defense class is from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Mondays, and the cost is $10 a class.

Casey Johnson has a title fight with XXX Extreme fighting October 18th in South Bend. Please make it out there and show your support for Casey.

Lagrange Gracie Jiu Jitsu is now an official Gracie Combatives training center. Come in and see what the combatives program can do for you with 10 free days of training. The 10 day trial includes the use of a Gi and also training with a Gracie Jiu Jitsu black belt.

For more information about the combatives program, check out the Gracie Academy's website http://gracieacademy.com/programs_adults.html.

All the ranked Lagrange Gracie Jiu-Jitsu students are now listed on the Gracie Academy website below.
- http://www.gracieacademy.com/certifiedbeltholders.htm

Casey Johnson and Abram Bottles both impressively won their MMA fights on March 8th. Links to these videos are below.
- Casey's Fight
- Abram's Fight

Chet recently promoted Abram Bottles and Casey Johnson to brown belts. Casey and Abram are some of the toughest guys around, if you don't think so come in and find out! Also Casey and Abram both have fights scheduled for March 8th in Goshen. Come out and support them!


      

Chet will be teaching a seminar in Port Huron, MI on Febuary 3rd from 9am - noon. Please contact Chet or the guys at Port Huron for more information.

Chet recently received his black belt while in California! This is a huge honor, Chet is the first to receive a black belt while training in a remote location! Click the link below to see the promotion.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wfb6EVU-ROY

Chet is now a proud father of Thor Erik Schemahorn. He was born October third and weighed 8 lb 15.7 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. Click on the images below for a larger picture.

Congratulations goes out to Nate Steffen for winning his first MMA fight in Ft. Wayne. Nate won by stoppage in the first round. Video will be posted soon.

Chet will be hosting a seminar Sunday, July 8th. It will be held in Port Huron, Michigan from 9 AM to noon. The address is: 3317 Lapeer Rd, Port Huron, MI, 48060. To schedule please contact Fred at 810-985-4404. The Port Huron website is located here: www.phjiujitsu.com.

Congratulations to all of the guys that went to the Hoosier Open and fought over the weekend, they all did very well. Below is the placement of those that competed.

Gary Hinkle & Justin Smith didn't medal but fought hard.

The Hoosier Open will be held Saturday June 9th, in Noblesville. All registration must be completed by June 7th and done ONLINE ONLY. This is a well run double elimination tournament that is held here in Indiana. Here is the link to the website for further information Hoosier Open Website.
 

Tonight Casey Johnson won his MMA fight due to referee stoppage in the first round. The fight can be found at the following link.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uQfTlf9WADQ
 

Great lakes tourney on March 24th was a great success.
* Joel Pippenger got gold in the lightweight blue belt and silver in no gi.
* Zach Shultz got silver in the blue belt heavy, gold in the no gi intermediate heavy, and gold in the no gi intermediate absolute.
* Nate Steffen got gold in the blue belt heavy, gold in the blue belt absolute (won the money!), and silver in the no gi advanced
  heavy.