#78 - Recapping ADCC Brazil Trials

Speaker 1: Well, well, well. I bet you guys didn't expect to just see little old Trey sitting here in his room in an undisclosed location all alone. But of course, you know, this is still the worst show on the internet, aka the Flow Grappling show. And honestly, this episode might genuinely be the worst show ever published to the internet because the boys have been super busy. There's been tons of events going on. Um, we've been working basically every weekend covering these events. Uh, this most recent one, back-to-back trials in Brazil. And you know, sometimes you got to just go solo on these things. Sometimes you got to do a solo episode and put it out on the internet to be heavily ridiculed about how, uh, you know, you can't carry a solo show for yourself by yourself, I mean. And so, that's exactly what I'm going to do. You know, put myself out there on this one, um, because we're flying, me and Reed are flying Monday out to Maryland. We're going to Rockville, Maryland to link up with DeAndre Corby, uh, and we're going to, you know, stop in at Standards, see Greg Souders. Yeah, I'm sure Gavin will be there. See those crews to shoot some stuff for WNO. So, we're not going to be able to film our normal episode Monday. So, this is a Sunday special for anybody watching or listening. If you're listening on a podcast app and you don't see the video, I'm sitting here in a room by myself doing this. So, we'll see how it goes. I don't know if it's going to be very good at all, but I'll try my best. We got to, we got to dive into, uh, ADCC Brazil recap. Then we're going to try and talk a little bit about some of the stuff we have coming up and, uh, things everybody should get stoked about. But to dive into a Brazil recap, I don't know if this episode's going to be super long. Probably won't be the normal hour-ish. Might be closer to freaking 10 minutes if I start blowing it, dude. If I, if I can't handle the pressure of not having people in person laughing at my bad bits, a forced laugh, I might just have to shut it down. I might just shut it down, dude. So, we'll see how it goes. But to get into this Brazil recap, we're going to kind of go through all of the people who qualified at the second Brazil trials and, uh, you know, talk a little bit, talk a little bit of nonsense along the way. If we get too silly, if we become too silly of a little goose here on our solo episode, then I might just have to jump in the water. If you're a silly goose, then jump in the water. You know, those are the rules. But let's kick it off. Let's talk about the female division, starting with minus 55 kilograms. Minus 55 kilograms, I think the biggest difference in this division, going from the first trials to the second trials, was the fact that Maísa Bastos registered for the second trials. Um, we kind of talked about it before the event started, but Maísa joining an event, I mean, it obviously shakes up the division. It shakes up who's going to be the number one seed, who could potentially win, um, in the division now. And I think that it did just that at this trial, at the second trials, because the first trials, Montserrat Perez got the win. She had Bianca Giannini in the finals. She was at Montserrat was able to get the win. Second trials, we see Maísa go out there and do what Maísa does. I mean, Maísa just wins jiu-jitsu matches. Like, simple as that. She's one of the most dominant grapplers in the sport. She's always on the IBJJF circuit. Now she's competing ADCC. Um, she's done ADCC before. I don't mean like it's her first time doing ADCC, obviously. But you just see Maísa everywhere and she's always super dominant. We ended up seeing her in the finals against Caroline Brunacio, who's a super tough opponent. Caroline Brunacio in the semifinals had Bianca Giannini, a girl that I thought definitely had what it took to potentially make it to the finals, potentially win and punch her ticket to the, uh, ADCC World Championship in Poland. But she ran into Caroline Brunacio. Caroline hit this slick little armbar on Bianca. Pretty sick little armbar. Um, I think it was kind of like a choi bar entry, but she was able to finish Bianca in the semis. She fought Maísa in the finals. I think Maísa won via points, if I'm not mistaken. I got some notes over here on my, on my second screen. I got 15 monitors here, you know, just with all of the jiu-jitsu intelligence a guy could ever ask for. But, uh, and I still don't know nothing, dude. I still don't know. All these monitors and none of it's getting into my little, my brainwaves at all. Um, but Maísa took the win there. I think, I think an interesting thing about Maísa at ADCC, I remember in 2022 ADCC, Maísa punched her ticket. She won trials that year as well. But that was whenever the division was still 60 kilograms. So, minus 60 kilograms. And she went out and had Bia Mesquita first round of the 2022 ADCC World Championship. Obviously, Bia Mesquita, the lady goat, one of the best competitors, uh, in the sport. And also a bit of a weight disadvantage for Maísa. Minus 60 is like really big for Maísa. Maísa can make like, I mean, she makes IBJJF rooster, which is insanely low. So, minus 55 definitely helps her out a little bit. And I think her going into this division now at minus 55 kilos for ADCC Worlds, definitely makes it a lot more exciting in my opinion. I know her and Adelle have crossed paths before. I remember, I think it was 2023 Brazileiros, Adelle and, uh, Maísa fought in the Gi in the finals. And it looked like Adelle was going to get the win, but Maísa barely squeaked it out, got the win there. Um, but yeah, I definitely think that minus 55 kilos division is shaping up to be a good one at the ADCC World Championship. And so, one, one, to talk about the solo show real quick. One thing about it is, you know, there's just going to have to be some awkward pauses when I take drinks of water and stuff because there's no one else to, you know, kind of toss it over to. So, this is the segment where I'm going to take a quick sip of water. All right, now that we got that out of the way, let's move up to minus 65 kilograms. Minus 65, uh, this was a girl that Joe was high on. Joe was talking about her a lot. He pegged her as a, a girl that could definitely go on a run, make, make a statement here in the division. Uh, and of course, I'm talking about Lívia Baracene. Lívia Baracene, super young grappler. I believe she's still a purple belt. But she was able to make it all the way to the finals and, uh, get the win via points against Vitória Vieira. I think for, for Lívia Bar, or, uh, yeah, Lívia Baracene, I mean, just like what a statement to make, to come out and win trials as a purple belt. Something that, I mean, we're definitely seeing more and more of, you know. There's more and more of these super young, uh, grapplers who are able to get the win at trials and kind of punch their ticket. But, yeah, I mean, it's just at this point, like, obviously, there's like the Cole Abates of the world, the Liz Clays of the world who are doing it, winning trials before at, at colored belt at super young ages. But it just seems like more and more, it's like there's a higher volume of people who are able to punch their ticket when they're still a colored belt, when they're still super young. And Lívia Baracene just did just that. She looked great in the final. She looked great the whole way through. So, definitely a, a cool addition to the World Championship in Poland. And then, minus 65 kilos, this is one, uh, where I think kind of like one of the clear favorites, I think you could say that about Maísa too, but one of the clear favorites who kind of entered this second trials was able to kind of go through and get the job done, where it was Yara Soares, who ended up taking the plus 65 kilogram, uh, gold at the second trials. In the final, she ended up facing Ingrid Souza. Ingrid Souza won the first Brazilian trials. Um, and they're former teammates. I believe they both kind of, like, went through the, uh, Dream Art route and then a lot of people have kind of branched off from Dream Art, where they, whether they've went to Fratres or Soldiers BJJ now, and then even some of them at Melqui, uh, Melqui's school. So, I believe Ingrid is representing Melqui Galvão Jiu-Jitsu now and, uh, Yara is, I think, Fratres still. I could be wrong on that, but I'm pretty sure Yara is Fratres. But they fought in the final. Yara was able to score the lone submission of this trials. So, not a ton of submissions in the finals at the second Brazil, uh, finals. Um, but she was able to get a knee bar on Ingrid and score the lone, um, lone submission of all the finals. So, shout out Yara. I think Yara is an absolute beast. Yara is so tall and lanky. Like, she's like a very, she's, she's big for sure. But it's like her and Gabby have went back and forth a lot throughout the years. And Gabby, Gabby is also very big, but Yara is like kind of like slimmed down, I think, trying to make different divisions so she doesn't have to fight Yara in two divisions, the absolute and like ultra heavy or what, super heavy, uh, all the time. And now, you know, she's like very slim, super long, has a very, uh, you know, unique build, I feel like, for the division where she could definitely shake things up, cause some problems come the, uh, World Championship in Poland. But, so, those are your, those are your three females that punched their ticket for the Brazil trials: Maísa Bastos, Lívia Baracene, and Yara Soares. But, to keep it moving, to keep going through all these divisions, like I said, you know, we're just cooking. We're just cooking here on the Flow Grappling show this episode. Going to cook right through it. See what we can do, you know. See if we can come up with something good to say along the way. But the odds are not in our favor. The odds are not in our favor for this to be entertaining or fun for people watching at home. This episode is brass tacks, baby. If you're down for the brass tacks, if you signed up for just brass tacks, just hard-hitting jiu-jitsu, uh, news and updates, then I'm your guy, baby. I'm the brass tacks man of jiu-jitsu. And it's time to collect, you know. In minus 66 kg, this is the one where last trials, it just shook up so much, you know. It was David Santos out of Melqui who ended up getting the win in minus 66 at the first South American trials. And it was just crazy upsets all over the place. Felipe Machado, Kauã Gabriel, Josh Flores, uh, Fabian Ramirez, all these guys got taken out, you know. And then it just was this mix of kind of like new up-and-coming guys. David Santos got the win. Diego Ortiz looked great. Bernardo Albuquerque looked great. Like, just tons of dudes who were, who were able to like showcase that, you know, they're contenders for, uh, for something like trials. This trials, on the other hand, I thought went back to kind of some of these guys who are still young and up-and-coming guys, but kind of, you know, the more notable, the more, the more top of that kind of echelon of up-and-comers, like Kauã Gabriel, like Felipe Machado. These guys who Kauã Gabriel's been to ADCC before, you know. He's an ADCC veteran. So, it's like, obviously, if you have an ADCC veteran in the mix, made the finals against Fabricio in 2024 trials, like, you kind of have an expectation that that guy is going to be an athlete to watch. This second trials, I thought showed more of these guys who you kind of expect to go on some runs, doing just that. Um, it was Kauã Gabriel who ended up in the finals against Victor Delabero. Uh, he won the finals by decision, or via points. He won the, he won the finals via points, punched his ticket to ADCC. Kauã and Felipe Machado faced off in the semifinals. They had a pretty solid match for sure, super sick. I think, I think Felipe Machado is one of the most exciting guys to watch right now. Felipe Machado hit this flying armbar earlier in the division that was absolutely nuts, dude. Go back and watch that one. I think it's on Flow Grappling's Instagram, but there's probably clips of it all over the place. But Felipe Machado, super exciting dude to watch, you know. I feel like he's got, I've said it before on this show, if you guys watch all the episodes, uh, then you'll know, like, he's like this Peter Pan type of guy to me for some reason, you know. This like, won't ever grow up, this lost boy in Neverland type of vibe. And he just kind of like has this bouncy energy to him when he goes out there and he does sick jiu-jitsu along the way. So, I do think Felipe Machado is a super sick dude to watch. I think, I mean, I don't know where invites are going to fall for this one, to be honest. I kind of have no idea. Um, they announced Fabricio's invited. They announced, uh, Mateusz Gamrot is invited. So, the invites could be interesting this time. I think it's something kind of worth keeping an eye on is who's going to get those invites or not. But Felipe Machado, I don't know. There's a case to be made. There's a case to be made for old Felipe Machado to kind of eventually pick up one of these invites late in the run, especially once guys start pulling out, you know, the divisions are kind of like, oh, man, who's going to fill in for this guy? So, Felipe Machado, I definitely think, is a grappler to watch. But in the semifinals, Felipe Machado and Kauã Gabriel, uh, crossed path. And it was a close match for sure. I feel like the decision could have gone either way, to be honest. I really, it was one of those where I was like, I really don't know which way this is going to go, uh, for the decision. But it was Kauã Gabriel who ended up getting, getting the decision over Felipe Machado. Um, and then another guy I want to shout out because he's also a dude that I think is on that, uh, you know, you should be watching list, is Josh Flores. Josh Flores is super young still. Um, he's been, you know, gaining more and more experience. I've seen him at a lot of trials now and everything. I'm sure he's out there doing a tons of opens and everything. But he made, uh, the other side of the semis against Victor Delabero. He lost that to Victor Delabero. So, obviously, Victor made his way to the finals. But Josh Flores is an exciting dude. He's fun to watch. He's really good. A bummer of a thing, I feel like, for Josh Flores. He had to fight Fabian, uh, earlier in the bracket. So, Fabian Ramirez and Josh Flores had to fight. I believe they're both Vanguard guys, you know. So, that's kind of like a bummer having to fight a teammate like that, especially when one's like kind of like a more established, been in the game for longer type of dude like Fabian. And then you got like this young up-and-comer who you've probably put so much into, you know, tried to help out so much along the way and stuff. Now it's like, damn, you guys got to, you guys got to face off here at trials. Someone's, someone's dream has to be smashed so someone else's dream can progress, you know. That's tough. But, you know, luckily, jiu-jitsu is a thing where you can take losses and stuff. So, it's not like it, it's not like MMA where you can't really go on that bad of a losing streak. Like, if you go on a three-fight losing streak, it's kind of like, oh, man, is this guy washed? Is, is this over for this dude? Is he going to get cut? Jiu-jitsu's not really like that. Like, you can take losses along the way for sure. But it's just kind of like a bummer when you have to do it with someone you're close to, someone that you train with and all of that. But I wanted to shout out Josh Flores as well. But it ultimately was Kauã Gabriel getting the win, punching his ticket. And then 77 kilograms. 77, uh, Hobinho was the guy in this 77 kilogram division. Alijah Hobinho, ADCC veteran, world champion, uh, Hobinho. I mean, he just looked like a beast the whole way through. He, he, uh, won the finals via points. He fought Guilherme Souza. If you don't know Guilherme Souza, Guilherme Souza, aka Little Leg, his nickname is Little Leg. I don't know how to say that in Portuguese, like, Pequeña or something like that. Someone, someone, someone who knows Portuguese, drop a comment right now. Let me know how to say Little Leg in Portuguese. I think it's like Pequeña or something like that. I'm not sure. But Little Leg is a purple belt out of Melqui Galvão's school. And on last episode, we talked, we brought up Little Leg because I said like, there were a little, there were a lot, like, Melqui Galvão's team at the first trials made a huge statement. They were super impressive, you know. Like I said, there was a little bit of witchcraft going on with the Melqui Galvão's school. I swear, if you, if you took out a Melqui student in the first trials, three more spawned in the bracket. It was nuts. Just an absolutely insane amount of Melqui guys making it deep. But there were definitely some notable names in that first trial from Melqui's school out of these young, these young kids that, like, I guess I've kind of met before at going there and filming with Mika and Diogo and stuff, that I didn't think were in the first trials where I was like, I wonder if they're going to enter the second trials because it's closer to Jundiaí where, uh, Melqui's school is. Little Leg was one of them. But I did not think Little Leg would be going all the way to the finals. That is not something I predicted. I brought up Arthur Souza, Little Leg, uh, Little Fight is a beast, Caláb Henrique, or, uh, Caláb Pereira is an absolute beast. Caláb is like one that's, he's been kind of making a lot of waves and stuff. Pretty notable young kid. A lot of people call him the next Mika, you know, down in that, in that region of the world. But Little Leg, like, that kind of surprised me. And it was super impressive to see this young Melqui purple belt, he's probably 16 years old, I believe, making it all the way to the 77 kilogram finals. And he looked good along the way too. Like, he was, he was, you know, throwing some little, throwing some high-flying stuff. He was trying to do his thing, trying to show off that Little Leg is not to be taken lightly. And in the finals, I think he had like a takedown attempt on Hobinho. A little bit of a scramble. But I think he went like flying over the, it was almost like, maybe it was like a top spin type of thing that Hobinho was just able to capitalize on the scramble, a little more experience. And he just stuck Little Leg. You can tell that Hobinho's got that grown man strength, you know. Things are a little different when you got that grown man strength at trials versus Little Leg who's, uh, he hasn't even graduated to Big Leg yet, you know what I mean? I mean, how can you expect a guy who hasn't even graduated up from Little Leg to Big Leg be able to handle some grown man strength down in Brazil, you know? Um, obviously, he did it a lot of the, in a lot of his matches, could make it happen. But Hobinho just stuck him on bottom whenever he kind of like spun over in this, uh, scramble situation. Hobinho took the top. I think he ended up mounting him, racking up a few points, like seven or something points, maybe a little more by the end of it. And just looked completely dominant. But I thought that was nuts that Little Leg had made it all the way to the finals. So, I wanted to give him a shout out. Like I said, someone drop it in the comments if you know how to say Little Leg in Portuguese so I can learn too, you know. Ultimately, this podcast, it's a Portuguese learning, uh, it's a Portuguese lesson, if you will, you know. We'll drop a couple lines here. Anos Cacho, you know. But I need you guys to help fill me in and give me all the details of the stuff I don't know how to say. So, shout out Hobinho, winning 77 kilos. And then, we move up to 88. 88 was a little more of a couple vets. A couple grizzled vets putting it on the line, making it happen down in South America, down in Indaiatuba, Brazil. And the finals we saw, uh, Gustavo Batista going up against Charles Negromonte. You don't want to wake up the lion, brother. You know what I'm saying? You don't want to wake up the lion with Charles Negromonte. And ultimately, Gustavo Batista was able to get the win without having to wake up the lion. So, that played in his favor. He was smart. It was smart of Batista not to wake up the lion. And he was able to get the win. Uh, Batista won via points in that final. I saw, I saw Charles Negromonte afterwards. He posted that that was going to be his last trials, you know. Uh, been doing it for a minute. Been holding it down for a minute, Charles Negromonte. You know what I'm saying? And I think he, uh, he said that in his post, he kind of mentioned how it was just like, he could feel the fatigue of running through something like trials was just getting to him, you know. Was a, was a bit harder than maybe whenever he was a spry young little, a young little lion out in the fields. But Gustavo Batista punched his ticket. I thought that was, I thought it was cool to see Batista win trials and, uh, punch his ticket to ADCC. Gustavo Batista, I feel like, is a guy who's kind of, he, I mean, he's definitely done pretty much everything you can do in the Gi. He's won so much. Maybe never won a world absolute title, but, um, he's won Pans, he's won, uh, Worlds. Basically, won everything. Gustavo Batista is one of the most, you know, dominant grapplers out there. I'll never forget, uh, whenever Jansen, I think it was 2023, Jansen made the absolute and the heavyweight final. And then, or not, not heavyweight, medium heavy, maybe. Made the medium heavy final. And, uh, it was like, that was like the story of that Worlds. It was like, this is crazy, you know. Is Jansen finally going to take the mantle? Is he going to, is, is he's going to take over Buchecha's reign, you know, for Checkmat at the top? And then Gustavo Batista had other plans. He went out there, got the straight ankle lock, injured Jansen. So, Jansen wasn't able to do the absolute. And I think it was Eric Munis who ended up taking the absolute that year, uh, with Jansen injured. And, you know, that's just what Gustavo Batista does. He goes out there and wins jiu-jitsu matches. He gets submissions, you know, he dominates. And he did a whole lot of that here at trials. So, I think, I think him being in ADCC is definitely sick. I think it's cool to have Gustavo Batista in the mix. Some of the best jiu-jitsu in the world. So, definitely going to be cool to see him at Worlds. Let's take another quick little sip of water. There we go. That was our second sip of water segment. But, let's move up to the big boys, minus 99 and plus 99 kilograms now. I know in the studio, the new studio, we can do whatever we want. There are no rules. No one can tell us what we can or can't say. And now I'm in an undisclosed room somewhere in the world where no one else is around. This is me as a solo production, you know. I'm running this from my laptop right now. I got so many cables, you guys wouldn't even believe it. It would blow your mind how many cables I'm running right now. And so, now, definitely no one can tell me what I can and can't say. That's a joke, by the way. Someone, someone at Flow was like, you can't do that. He can't, he can't actually say whatever he wants. It's a joke. It's a joke for the, for the listeners. Um, so I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But this is what I want to say. The plus 99 and minus 99 kilogram finals were boring, you know. Um, I guess, sorry for the critique. Who am I to critique, you know? Probably nobody. Just little old Trey, you know. But as a fan, as someone watching, those matches were pretty boring. Just, just giving it to you guys straight. Um, it was just all standing collar ties. And, you know, just like weird hand fighting that was not really, it was kind of obvious that it's like, no one was progressing for a takedown. No one was really actually trying to get in on a shot, trying to get in on a throw or a trip or anything to actually take it to the mats. And that was kind of boring. That was boring to watch as a fan, to be honest. I 100% understand and respect the aspect of like, once you get to the finals, it is about winning the finals, you know. It's about punching your ticket. It's about making sure that, you know, you take home the gold and you're able to go to the ADCC World Championship. That is, that is what that is about, you know. It's, there's, there's like, I guess it, it, it stands out when an athlete does care about the showmanship still in the finals. Like, that's such an incredible thing. Like, Fabricio Andre being an example. I know we've been using him a lot as an example recently. Like, that's what makes him so sick, you know what I mean? Is that even in the finals, you know Fabricio's going to go out there and do some wild stuff. Like, he's going to be entertaining from start to finish. He's going to be hunting subs. But I 100% understand and respect the aspect of like, locking down the game, making sure you get the win. And that's kind of what we saw in the minus 99 and plus 99 kilogram finals. We saw Vinicius Lessa won the minus 99 kilogram division. He won via decision. And then Pedro Lucas won the plus 99 kilogram division, uh, by decision as well. So, that kind of rounds out who punched their tickets from the second ADCC Brazil trials. Just to run through it again real quick, starting at the women's lightest, going up all the way through the men's heaviest. We got Maísa Bastos, Lívia Baracene, uh, Yara Soares, Kauã Gabriel, Alijah Hobinho, Gustavo Batista, Vinicius Lessa, and Pedro Lucas. Eight athletes now officially punched their ticket to the ADCC World Championship in Krakow, Poland. So, shout out all them. Congratulations, you know. It's a hard thing to go out there and put it on the line. It's even harder to come out as the, as the top victor, the number one spot, to get to hoist the grand prize atop the podium. It's a hard thing to do. Not everybody gets to get feel that feeling. You know. But these eight athletes do. So, congratulations to them. I think, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to pull up this Flow article we have. You know, I'm going to, I'm working on my intelligence department over here. I'm pulling up my, my 14th and 15th screens real quick. I'm going to pull up every athlete currently, uh, invited and ready to go for the ADCC World Championship. So, we can look at these divisions real quick. Let me switch over here. Make sure that's still working so you guys can see. But we'll just scroll through here real quick. First, obviously, the reigning champions have all been announced, uh, with their official invites. So, going from 66, uh, down, or up in the divisions, we got Diogo Reis, returning champ, Mika Galvão, Giancarlo Bodoni, Kainan Duarte, Felipe Pena, female divisions, Adelle Fornarino, Ana Carolina, and Rafaela Guedes, the reigning champions. And then looking at each division now with trials champs and, uh, other invites that have came out. 66 kilos, shaping up to be a wild one. This is going, all these divisions are, are starting to feel a little wild, to be honest. I don't know how they're going to end up playing out, but I'm definitely excited to see. I definitely think it's going to be kind of nuts, you know. It's going to be kind of, I think it's going to be fun. I just think, I think, I feel like there's been some talk about the 2026 World Championship, you know. Some people are having their doubts. Some people aren't about the 2026 World Championship. Obviously, I have a bias. I work for Flow Grappling, you know. It's good for me for ADCC to do well. But I think when I genuinely think about, what do I think about the 2026 World Championship? I just think it's going to be a fun ADCC. I think, I think the venue, the fans, I think that's going to deliver. Like, they, they've went to one of the best venues in Poland. Poland has like a very deep MMA fan base, a very deep combat sports fan base that I think is going to fill the arena. I think the arena's going to be full. I don't think that's necessarily going to be an issue. As for what athletes are going to end up doing it, what athletes are punching their ticket, going to get invited, it's hard to tell at this point, you know. Obviously, we have some sick names in the mix, you know, especially once you don't just look at the reigning champs who are going to get invited, but also some of the other medalists who you can kind of assume will be invited. Mixed in with some of these new young up-and-comers in each division, I think these divisions are going to be fun, dude. It might be a little different, which is, you know, probably not a bad thing for the sport to kind of have some different divisions, have things mixed up, you know, see some new guys, potentially see some new stars, you know, kind of emerge from the ashes of the fallen at the World Championship and kind of, you know, hoist the grand prize, like we said. But in 66, we got Diogo Reis, we got Nico from, uh, European trials, Dorian Oliveira from East Coast, Ryoma and Raku from the Asian trials, Yigit, Hane, David Santos, Fabricio Andre, Kauã Gabriel. So, definitely different names in there. You start putting in some of the, uh, the medalists like Owen Jones, Diego Pato, Josh Cisneros. I feel like these divisions are starting to become pretty sick, you know. And we still got West Coast trials to go. We still have another Asian trials. And so, I, I'm kind of, I'm kind of into it. I don't know. Call me, call me biased or whatever, but I'm kind of into some of these. I think it's going to be fun. I think it's going to be a cool mix of athletes that should be pretty exciting. Looking at 77, we got Mika Galvão, we got Magomed Zarbaev, uh, out of the first European, Little Jacob Borneman, just an absolute killer. This dude posted a video of him, uh, shadow wrestling the other day, just, just mixing in backflips, just maintaining a perfect stance through a backflip, uh, while he was shadow wrestling. Just a, just a wild athlete. We got Isaac still in there. I don't know what's going to happen with Isaac. Just being honest with you guys. Like, I think everybody in jiu-jitsu knows what's going on in that situation. I don't know if that stays or not. But we got Nikolai Vetrov from the second trials, Julio Martins from Brazil, Mateusz Gamrot, MMA, uh, you know, veteran, got the invite. And then Alijah Hobinho. This one, I think too, like, with some of the invites that could be out there, I mean, who knows, you know. Who knows who else could be in there? Imagine Kade Ruotolo comes back for this one. Imagine. Just imagine for a second, Kade Ruotolo decides to, you know, that maybe he does want a second ADCC medal. That would be absolutely nuts. I also think maybe a guy like Taylor Pearman, Taylor Pearman could be, uh, you know, waiting in the wings for an invite. Who knows? Minus 88 kilos, we got Giancarlo Bodoni, Pavel Zhvorsky, John Blank, Joseph Chen, Marlon Tjick, Franco Diaz, and now Gustavo Batista. This is also a division that, like, I feel like could change, right? Like, Joseph Chen being in 88, like, who knows, maybe he moves around, goes 77. Um, got the established veterans like Gustavo Batista, Giancarlo Bodoni, and John Blank in there. And then this crop of young dudes who are like super exciting grapplers can make any division exciting, can kind of mix it up and, uh, I mean, really, I think are going, we're going to start seeing more and more of these young guys kind of take the mantle as the top dudes in the sport. Like, Joseph Chen is, is must-watch jiu-jitsu, you know. Uh, I don't, I don't even think Joseph likes competing that much. I think he likes teaching. I think he likes learning jiu-jitsu. But, boy, oh, boy, do I like watching Joseph Chen compete. I mean, it's just incredible. If you want to be hip to like some of the newest stuff, some of the coolest stuff going on out there, then you got to be watching Joseph Chen. Marlon Tjick, you know, a Swedish grappler. Like, definitely super sick. Um, really cool, just a cool guy, to be honest, you know. Sometimes you got to give it up for just a cool guy. It's nice to have just a cool guy in the bracket sometimes. So, uh, Marlon Tjick being in there. Franco Diaz punching his ticket at the first South American trials, that was awesome. Like, that was an electric, uh, final and like that, that butterfly sweep to the back he hit was kind of crazy. Repping Peru, I believe the second guy from Peru to, uh, be at the ADCC World Championship. So, shout out him. So, yeah, I think it's like, this division's shaping up to be a good mix of, of vets and young hungry dudes that it could be sick. Giancarlo recovering from surgery, you know. So, I, I feel like he'll be all right. Like, you would think Giancarlo would kind of like try and plan that around when he can come. I think my pick, I, I gave an early 2026 prediction. I predicted that Giancarlo will three-peat, you know. I think, I think when it comes to ADCC, Giancarlo is just kind of unstoppable. So, I'm still riding with that. We'll see how it plays out. And then, plus 99, or, minus 99 kilograms, sorry. We got Declan Moody, Achilles Rocha, Nico Malgichik, Owen O'Flanagan, Eli Braz, Adam Wardzinski, and now Vinicius Lessa. Obviously, Adam being in there is pretty sick. Uh, we don't have, oh, we don't have the returning champ Kainan in this division because Kainan's doing the super fight. He also won the absolute. So, he'll be doing the super fight this year. So, definitely opens up this division. And it makes you start wondering, you know, where's Nicholas Meregali in all of this? Where's little old Nicholas Meregali going to fall in this, you know, this cycle of ADCC? Is he going to get the invite? Are we going to see him minus 99? Um, I'm definitely stoked to see Adam Wardzinski in the mix. I think that's awesome. Like, I, I'm definitely stoked to see Adam get the invite and going to be there. Owen O'Flanagan, one of the, one of the must-watch grapplers as well right now. Nico, super cool. Achilles Rocha, absolute killer. Declan Moody, one of the best in the game currently. So, I think that division is also sick. And then plus 99 kilograms, Felipe Pena, Mark McQueen, Brandon Reed, Tito Giancarlo, Haisam Rida, Roosevelt Souza, and now Pedro Lucas. So, definitely also shaping up to be a tough division here. Let's go through the women's real quick. Minus 55, we got Adelle Fornarino, Janette Gloger, Maísa Bastos. And then we have, uh, minus 65, Ana Carolina Vieira, and Jonna Goodman, and Lívia Baracene. Plus 65, we got Rafaela Guedes, Annabelle Lopez, and Yara Soares. So, obviously, more of the females will be, uh, this, the female brackets will be filling out more as the, uh, the second trials for the other regions kind of conclude. Uh, West Coast trials and then also the second Asian trials. As well as some more medalist invites. So, that's kind of where, that's kind of where we're currently sitting at for the ADCC divisions. I guess, let me know in the comments. Let me know what you guys think. This is a whole lot of me talking in this, but, you know, you guys can, can continue the conversation in the comments. What do you think about the state of ADCC in 2026? What are kind of, what are your thoughts on the World Championship this year? You think it's going to deliver? You think not? I'm team it's going to deliver, to be honest. I think it's going to be a very fun ADCC. And I'm excited for it. I'm excited to go to Krakow. I think that's going to be dope. And I think it's going to generate just electric moments that are synonymous with ADCC itself, you know. That's what you can expect from ADCC. Just kind of unreal moments, uh, big breakouts, new stars being formed. Um, so, I think it's going to be a whole lot of the same when it comes down to it. But let me know what you guys think in the comments. And then, the next thing I just wanted to talk about real quick is I want to talk about some of the stuff we got coming up on Flow Grappling because March has been an absolutely insane month. When it comes to this job, this is obviously an incredible job. I'm super grateful, you know. It's like, there's nothing else I'd rather be doing than getting to make videos about jiu-jitsu. It's definitely a blessing, you know. I'm very grateful for that. I don't know if I always express how grateful I am in these videos and everything. I tried to during the live streams that I've been doing because, you know, it's incredible that people want to tune in and, and watch stuff that I made and, or that I'm a part of, you know. That's a great thing. But for it to also be about jiu-jitsu, something I love and care about so much, something I, I do myself every single day. Like, that's a pretty incredible thing. But you got to take the good with the bad, you know. You got to take the good with the bad. And I'm not saying it's necessarily bad, but March has been nuts, dude. We've been working non-stop. I don't, I think we've had like two weekends off in all of 2026. Wouldn't change it for the world. I love it. That's why I'm sitting here right now doing a solo show for you boys because I, I want to deliver. If you guys are going to watch, I want to make sure I'm delivering stuff for you guys to watch. I want to make sure I'm giving you guys good videos, entertaining stuff. I don't always hit the mark. Sometimes, sometimes it gets a little boring. I'm hoping this one's not too boring for you guys. So, I appreciate any, you know, diehards out there that sat through, uh, the ramblings of little old Trey. But that is kind of my goal is like, I definitely want to put out dope stuff for you guys. If you guys want to watch it, then I want to make it, you know. So, that's what I'm trying to do. And that's been the, the, the vibe all of March. Just grinding through the weekends, covering all these events. And we're not stopping. That's what I'm getting to, you know. You might be asking yourself, what's Trey getting at right now? Well, I'm getting at that we're not stopping. We got Pans is this week. So, we got Pans going on March 25th to 29th. So, if you want to switch it up, if you're more of a Gi guy, I kind of, I like training in the Gi more, to be honest. I probably like watching No-Gi more, but I definitely still like watching the Gi. I think there's, there's, you know, great stuff to watch in the Gi. So, we got Pans coming out March 25th to 29th. And it's shaping up to be pretty interesting. I think the biggest thing for me is that Tommy's back, you know. Tommy Langaker, I saw he's been, he's been doing some seminars. He's been living, he's been, uh, you know, kind of traveling in a van with his dog. That's incredible. I lived in a van for, for a good minute. Um, maybe like a couple years or so. I was living in my van here in Austin. I lived in a van for a little bit in Arkansas when I lived in Arkansas. So, I understand the power of the van, you know. Just the bare necessities, just, just whittled down to things that are functional, things that have utility and just, you know, no excess, just locked in and focused. Just living in a van. I didn't have a dog at the time. Now I got a dog, Kona. Shout out Kona. Best dog in the world. But at the time I didn't. Tommy's got a dog in a van. That's, that's a winning equation, dude. If you're a guy who's been living in a van with your dog, I don't know how you lose. And it almost feels like Tommy's been on kind of like a vision quest recently, you know. Just kind of out there looking for something. And I'm glad to see he's back. I'm glad to see Tommy's back competing, uh, in the Gi too, you know. It's sick to have Tommy in the Gi. The Gi is better with Tommy Langaker. So, I think that's one of the coolest things about this Pans is Tommy's going to be there competing. I'm super stoked to watch him. I think the other thing that's cool to watch about this Pans is AOJ. And I think sometimes people try to, try to paint a narrative that there's like a coverage bias on AOJ. I think AOJ has a winning bias. I think AOJ just wins, to be honest. Their team is just getting better and better. They're winning more and more. And they're filling out way more divisions. Like, used to, it might be like, okay, yeah, they got Tainan, they got Pato, they got Cole Abate coming up through the colored belt ranks. But like, maybe they didn't have like the full-fledged, just every division. They have that now. AOJ has multiple guys in every division all the way up to heavyweight, you know. And then they have some, some, a couple guys in, in super and ultra. Um, those are still their lighter divisions for sure. But it's like, the dudes they do have, have a good chance of making a run, have a good chance of winning this. And so, I think AOJ is a team to watch. Last year at Pans, they won their first ever, uh, male adult title at a major. So, that was huge for them. And I think they're definitely a favorite to be watching for the team title going into this second one. But let's, let's pull up some of the registrations for IBJJF Pans. I'm going to go through this real quick so I'm not just reading off every name to you guys yapping for no reason. But, so, to look, just quickly at these divisions, we got in men's rooster, Jaylen Fana, he's kind of been, you know, vocal about wanting to make a run at the Grand Slam this year. We got Babito Oliveira. Shout out Babito Oliveira. Um, he's an absolute beast, world champion. I think he's a hard dude to beat. We got Talison in the mix. Talison's a dog. Uh, and then Marcus Gomes is another guy that I think is, you should be watching. He's a, uh, AOJ guy. Light feather, uh, what do we got here? We got Pato, Harrison Gabriel, Gustavo Ogawa, Malakai, Anderson Duarte, Shoya Ishiguro, Cleber Souza. So, that one's definitely stacked. Men's feather, um, men's feather's nuts, dude. Like, men's feather, you just, like, this, men's feather could steal the show, could end up boring. I don't know, but it's definitely one of the divisions you always need to be like keeping your peepers on, you know. Stay frosty whenever you're, when the men's featherweight division is on the mats. But Kennedy Maciel, Cole Abate, João Mendes, Sam Nagai, Dudu Granzada, Ademir Barreto, uh, Daniel Satler, Sebastian Serpa in the mix. So, that one's kind of stacked top to bottom, to be honest. I think a big story for the men's featherweight division this year is just going to be Kennedy Maciel and Cole Abate potentially clashing kind of deep into the brackets at every, uh, IBJJF major, you know. We've seen it already this year. I think we're going to see it a few more times. Cole looked great against Will Wilson at the IBJJF Grand Prix. That was at lightweight, obviously. He was able to get the win still. Now he's back down to feather. So, I definitely think everyone should be watching that one. Then men's light, we got Jackson Nagai, the world champ, Will Wilson, Mateo Cardona, Fab Yuri, Pablo Lavacelli, Miguel Campos, uh, Johnny Tama in there. Tama in there. Danilo Moreira, Kevin Mahecha. So, these, these brackets are looking sick, dude. I think it's like, obviously, World Championship, that's the big one, you know. That's the one everyone, you know, balls out for. That's the one you want to win. I think Pans is like competitive with how sick the brackets can be, how dope, uh, the event itself can be. Like, looking back at historic things, I recently went back and watched some of the 2017 Pans matches. That was where, uh, Leandro Lo won his first double gold at Pans. He had Tanner Rice in the heavyweight final and then he had João Gabriel Rocha in the absolute final. He was able to beat João Gabriel Rocha via toe hold and, uh, beat Tanner Rice via points. But it's just electric to watch. Like, go back and watch Leandro Lo's 2017 finals in the, uh, heavyweight and absolute divisions. Like, Pans is an electric event. Like, you should be watching Pans if you're a fan of, uh, Gi jiu-jitsu. And then the middleweight division, we got Tainan Dalpra, Elijah Dorsey, Pablo Oliveira, Mateus Luna, um, Thiago Saboya in there, Leo Souza, um, Gabriel Galvão, a bunch of cool guys filling out the division as well. I think, obviously, it's like, all eyes on Tainan Dalpra, you know. Tainan Dalpra's back in the mix, back doing these divisions. And he's must-watch jiu-jitsu. Elijah Dorsey had a sick match with him at Brazileiros last year. So, definitely some cool potential matches there. Mateus Luna also. The Luna brothers, I don't think get enough respect. The Luna brothers are unreal at jiu-jitsu. They're, they're, they do some crazy moments throughout the bracket. So, especially early rounds, be watching the, the, the Luna brothers. Be watching Mateus Luna. And then, medium heavy, we got Gabriel Costa, Luiz Victor, Wanderson Ferreira's back. They got him on that weed charge. Stay off the weed. And he's back now. Paulo Merlin, Danilo Brok, a young Alliance black belt, Spirandeli, uh, Lucas Lira, and Tommy Langaker in there. So, I think this one could be electric. Men's heavy, Heitor Zuchi, Mateus Rodrigues, Elder Cruz, Francisco Papasidero. That's a, he's an AOJ guy. Um, super heavy, Nolan Stewart. Nolan Stewart looking to keep kind of making his claim for one of the top guys in the sport. Vinicius Liberati, Winston Torres, Harrison Pereira. Ultra heavy, we got Saif in there, Lucas Montalvo, Luis Cantera, Anderson Kuan. And then the women's divisions, uh, rooster, Tais Lureira, um, Jessica Caroline, um, Diana Teixeira, Ana Lima. Maísa going light feather. She's also got the Funegra sister, one of the Funegras in there, Ashley Funegra. If you combine the Funegras, ADCC is starting at last Worlds, or, uh, IBJJF majors, starting at last Worlds and through this year, I think that's a joint Grand Slam. They could potentially do a joint Grand Slam, you know. If you mix Mia and Ashley, which seems like it should be allowed. I don't make the official rules, all right? I'll have to get IBJJF on the horn. I'll have to talk to them. But I think maybe, let's, let's do a joint Grand Slam. If Ashley Funegra ends up winning all of the divisions, but Mia won the Worlds, let's go ahead and throw a, a joint Grand Slam prize out there. But Brenda Larissa in this one. So, also in this one, Sofia Castello, Yasmin Castro. Women's feather, we got Larissa Campos, Margo Ciccarelli, Emilia Pakulski, uh, women's light, we got Sarah Galvão versus Janaína Maia. That could be a little bit of a, uh, a rematch there. Sabrina Ganam, Beatrice Jin. Women's middle, we got Liz Clay, Alexia Arantes, Giselle Moniz, Amanda Schwartz, Lillian Marchand in the mix there. Going to be cool to see Lillian, uh, mixing it up. Fernando Cristo, Emily Ferreira out of Bruno Bastos. Women's medium heavy, Denise Kron. She just won Euros. Liz Mitrovic, absolute beast. Quani Ramos, a killer out of Fight Sports. Then women's heavy, Larissa Diaz, Caroline Caramoni, Leticia Teixeira, Maria Mawi, and Simone Abreu. And then super heavy, not too many registrations, but kind of a wild one in the mix there. We got Gabby Pasanha, Haniel Alencar, and then Rosa Walsh. Rosa Walsh is not going to be worried about a cut for the super heavyweight division. So, kind of, kind of cool to see her throw her name in there for the women's super heavyweight division. But definitely some cool registrations for Pans. I think the event could end up being pretty sick, to be honest. So, I'm going to be tuned in. Uh, March 25th through 29th. I'll probably be doing some live streams here from this exact setup you guys are watching right now. So, if you want to tune in for those, I won't be streaming like the finals or anything for black belts. On Sunday, we got to do some, uh, WNO media day stuff. But I think I'm going to try and stream for at least a couple hours every single day. So, starting the 25th all the way through Saturday to, uh, get some live streams going. So, make sure you guys subscribe to the Flow Grappling YouTube channel and be on alert for those live streams. Drop in the chat, you know. I try to mix it up with the boys in the chat. Talk to them and everything. So, if you want to, you know, have a line, if you want to have a line to little old Trey, join the live, live streams and we can, uh, talk there. Some other cool stuff though coming up. I wanted to shout out Long Island Jiu-Jitsu Network. All right. Long Island Jiu-Jitsu Network. These boys are doing some cool stuff out on the East Coast, you know. Putting together some cool events, putting it down where some, you know, local grapplers, some regional grapplers are able to start cutting their teeth with some super fights, some brackets, some team events. So, Long Island Jiu-Jitsu Network, it's an, it's a promotion worth watching, you know. It's, uh, it's going to give you, it's, it's like, I think Finishers is probably like that, that, that upper echelon for me on these regional shows that I think are sick. I think they got some stuff coming up as well. The Ice Age is going to continue, if I have to say so myself, on Finishers. And then it's like Long Island Jiu-Jitsu Network is like, they're kind of like, you know, staking their claim to some of that regional tomfoolery, if you will, as well. Kind of doing some cool events out there. But they're starting out a three-event series in Connecticut coming, uh, the first one, let me check the date, is Saturday, March 28th. They're, uh, doing a three-event series in Connecticut. So, that'll be a cool one if you want to kind of tune, tune in and kind of follow along this three-event series based in Connecticut. Uh, I think the first one might be a team event. I could be mistaken. Let me know in the comments. Hopefully, the Long Island Jiu-Jitsu guys, uh, see this and can correct me if I'm wrong. But I think the first one's a team event. So, that'll be sick. Make sure you guys tune in for that. And then we got WNO 32, obviously, going down March 31st. All of the matches have been announced. Everything, the ink has dried on WNO 32. And we're getting close to the time where it's just time to run it, dude. Not much more talking to be done about WNO 32. We just got to run that shit, dude. We got the 155 bracket. We got the 145 youth bracket. A bunch of sick super fights. Nick Mataya versus, or Mateus versus Little Jacob Borneman going down. One of the super fights. That's probably the one I might be most excited for. I think both those dudes are electric grapplers. But there's a whole lot more where that came from. A lot of the youth getting a shot on this WNO. So, we're going to see what they're made of. We're going to see if they can, you know, deliver. I'm always seeing these clips out of the ADCC opens of, uh, youth competitors and just kind of like the crazy jiu-jitsu they're always doing. So, I'm excited to see some of that come to the Who's Number One stage. It's going down in Austin. We're at the, uh, Austin PBS venue, I think. A little bit of a smaller venue, but there's tickets to be had. So, make sure, you know, you're gobbling up those tickets if you want to be there because there's not a ton. So, they're probably going to go fast. Um, but that one's going down March 31st. There's a whole lot more. There's a whole lot more going on, uh, on Flow Grappling as well. Couldn't talk about all of it, but that's just some of the highlights there. So, make sure you guys tune in for Pans this week. Make sure you guys tune in Long Island Jiu-Jitsu Network. Make sure you're tuning in for WNO 32. But I think that pretty much concludes this episode. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed this. Hopefully, it wasn't too unbearable just hearing me talk, uh, by myself for, for 45 minutes or so, however long this ended up being, 50 minutes. Longer, longer than expected, all right? Your boy can gab a little bit, all right? Shout out, shout out my grandma. We call her Nini. You know, she always said that she passed down the gift of gab from her. So, shout out Nini. Give me the gift of gab, I guess, to be able to run this for 50 minutes. Thank you guys for watching. Couldn't do this without you. Make sure you guys are tuning in for a lot of these events. And I'll see you guys in the next episode. We're going to have the whole crew back. So, don't worry about this. It might be a one-off thing. But I'll see you guys in the next episode.