Keenan Cornelius competed at the 2019 IBJJF No-Gi Pans and used the event to test out some new no-gi strategies ahead of ADCC– with some success, and some failure. 

The brown belt divisions were a non-stop flurry of action today at the 2019 IBJJF Pan No-Gi. Submissions were flying, especially in the absolute division. Let’s break down one of the craziest sequence of matches... 

Seven athletes competing at the 2019 ADCC World Championships competed on Saturday at the IBJJF Pan No-Gi, five in the black belt division and two at brown belt. None of the seven ADCC athletes ended up fighting each other and they ended up with three gold medals, two silver and two bronze. 

The plan for Keenan at the 2019 Pan IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship was to test out the new techniques and strategies he has been learning with John Danaher and Gordon Ryan at Renzo's gym over the last three weeks. 

The brackets and schedule have dropped for the 2019 IBJJF No-GI Pans!

A number of elite colored belts have signed up for this weekends IBJJF Pan No-Gi Championship in New York. There are brown belts who are set to compete at ADCC in just a couple weeks and various world champions at blue, purple and brown belt. The brown belts will fight on Saturday the 14th and the purple belts on Sunday the 15th.

It’s September and that means it is time for the jiu-jitsu community to converge on Manhattan for the 2019 IBJJF Pan No-Gi Championships. As always the event is going down in the Nat Holman Gymnasium at CCNY and will take place on Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th. Gordon Ryan dominated this event a year ago but is not registered this year, here is a look at who might contend in NY.

A huge name has jumped into the mix for IBJJF No-Gi Pans at the deadline on Friday night, as two-time No-Gi World champion Keenan Cornelius has registered in the super-heavyweight division. Known for his arsenal of lapel attacks in the gi, Keenan is also one of the most accomplished No-Gi competitors on earth and is a four-time ADCC medalist.