Catch up on another weekend full of jiu-jitsu, this time with events in Texas, Florida, and even South Korea. Read on for details. 

IBJJF Houston Open 

Two of the biggest teams in jiu-jitsu had strong showings in Houston this weekend. Gracie Barra closed out the black belt absolute with Victor Silverio and Ignacio Neto sharing the gold. Sky Lovell out of Romulo Barral’s GB Northridge won double gold in the brown belt division, taking first place in the super-heavy and absolute. 

Victor Silverio and Ignacio Neto. Photo: MMAWin.com

AoJ blue belts Mateus Rodrigues (left) and Tainan Dalpra. Photo: @mendesbros

Atos youngsters shone in the colored ranks. Seventeen-year-olds Tainan Dalpra and Mateus Rodrigues — competing as middleweight and medium heavyweight — closed out the blue belt absolute division after winning gold in their respective divisions. This is their fourth tournament of the year they've taken double gold. 

Featherweight Sophia Flores, the only Atos female competitor among the purple belt ranks at this tournament, also took double gold. 

It's worth noting the Atos/Art of Jiu-Jitsu squad took home 11 gold medals in total among its seven competitors! 

ADCC Open

You can read our report here of the superfights that went down during Saturday’s event in Coral Springs, Florida, and the match videos can be found here.

A major piece of news out of the tournament is that Maggie Grindatti of Fight Sports won the female absolute and received a cool $1,000 cash prize – which is exactly the same offered to the winner of the men’s division! Bravo to the tournament promoters for stepping up and doing women competitors right. 

Spyder Invitational BJJ Championship

Replay of the full event will be available in our archives shortly, but we wanted to bring to your attention that this event in Seoul, South Korea, rocked. With two mini-tournaments (-76kg and +76kg) featuring a mix or purple, brown and black belts competing against each other, the event delivered an early contender for gi match of the year, between black belt Hugo Marques of Soul Fighters and brown belt Jonnatas Gracie of Atos. 

Stayed up until 3.30am to watch Spyder live – feeling it today. Got to see stuff like this though, so not unhappy about that :) pic.twitter.com/X0A3xRuQQu

— Hywel Teague (@hywelteague) February 11, 2018

Fight To Win Pro 62

Taking place in Oakland, F2W Pro 62 was the organization's biggest show to date in terms of attendance and competitor payouts! 

Quick results: Jake Shields won a decision over Kit Dale with his guillotine/front-headlock attacks and a late leg lock attempt. Marvin Castelle dropped a decision to Travis Magalit. Jake Scovel of Kurt Osiander earned submission of the night honors for his estima lock finish. Full results here. 

FloGrappling podcast now available

Episode one of "A Fistful of Collars" dropped last week. You can watch it LIVE every Thursday on FloGrappling.com, YouTube, and Facebook. 

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Catch up on episode one: