Congrats to Team Pinnacle Fighter Reuben Duran for defeating Maurice Eazel with a Guillotine Choke at 1:18 of the first round at Long Beach Fight Night 8. He continues to kick butt and take names in MMA. MMA Fight Results - LBFN 8

Team photos will be taken beginning this evening; team photos with students in their gis will be taken today before class between 5:00 and 5:15 pm, and team photos with students not in their gis will be taken tomorrow before class between 5:30 and 5:45 pm. Team photos will eventually be posted on the website

All classes will be cancelled from Wednesday, February 24th through Friday, February 26th due to our fighters, Aaron Arana and Reuben Duran, appearing on the King of the Cage card at San Manuel Indian Casino in Highland, CA. Classes will resume their regular schedule on Saturday, February 27th.

We still have 25 tickets left to this event; 10 are $70 tickets and 15 are $40 tickets. Team t shirts are available for an additional $8 with purchase of a ticket. T shirts are also for sale for $10 if you do not buy a ticket to the event.

We look forward to seeing you at the fights on Thursday.

The Yoga class that is scheduled for Saturdays at 9:45 am will be cancelled this Saturday, January 30th. Yoga will resume as regularly scheduled on Tuesday, February 2nd at 7:15 pm.

We only have 26 spots left available for the Karo Parisyan seminar being held on January 30th from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. If you haven't already, please email or call me so that I can reserve you a spot for the seminar. The cost for Pinnacle students is $45.00 and for non students is $60.00.

Gilbert Vielmas will be fighting Chris Sepulveda at the Called Out MMA event on January 23rd at the Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario.

We are working on a fight now for Greg Guzman to possibly fight Tommy Vargas on the Respect in the Cage card on February 19th at the Fox Theater in Pomona. This fight has not been confirmed yet, as we are waiting for an answer back from Vargas' camp.

Aaron Arana and Reuben Duran will all be fighting on the upcoming King of the Cage card at San Manuel in Highland on February 25th. Bobby's fight is a title fight against Rick Legere at 160.

We have confirmed January 30th as the date for our four hour seminar with Karo "The Heat" Parisyan. The cost for students will be $45.00, and for non students it will be $60.00. Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to attend, as spaces are very limited. Anyone who is planning on attending must pay to reserve their spot.

We hope you all have a happy holiday season.

Due to the upcoming holidays, Pinnacle Jiu Jitsu will be closed on Thursday, December 24th; Friday, December 25th; and Saturday, December 26th. The following week we will be closed Thursday, December 31st; Friday, January 1st; and Saturday, January 2nd.

I am currently setting up a seminar with Karo "The Heat" Parisyan, a veteran of the UFC. It will be a four hour seminar; the date is yet to be decided, but will most likely be on the 30th of January. The cost for Pinnacle students to attend is $45.00 and for non students the cost is $60.00. If you are interested, please contact me to reserve your spot as soon as possible, due to the fact that there will only be 50 spots available.

We have scheduled a bicycle ride in honor of Frank Tomkins that will start at 8:30 am on October 24th from Eureka Burger in Redlands. Their address is 345 Pearl Avenue, on the corner of Pearl and Eureka. Eureka Burger is donating 10% of the sales from October 24th to the family of Frank Tomkins, as well as all donations collected from the bike ride. We will also be raffling off various prizes from local businesses that have donated items to participants of the bike ride. We have TapouT apparel, skateboard decks from Monkeez Extreme Apparel & Ride Shop in Ontario, Carl's Jr. coupon books, and gift cards to local businesses amongst other prizes. Rock N Saddle in Redlands has also donated VIP access cards.

All ages are welcome to participate in the bike ride. Also, the fire department should be bringing a fire truck and bottles of water to distribute to participants. The fire engine is slated to be there at 10:30 in the Eureka Burger parking lot. For more information on the bike ride, please visit the Pinnaclebjj.com website where there will be a link to Don's Bikes of Rialto, who is helping to coordinate the bike ride.

Please feel free to forward this information to anyone you feel would be interested in coming out to support this event. Thank you for your support for the Tomkins family and all of our sponsors.