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Beatrice Carnell is back. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Beatrice Carnell is back. The 20-year-old Vancouver Island resident, who attended Brandon University last year for a few months and quickly joined WAMMA Brandon before heading back to B.
C., is now serving with 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. On Saturday, she beat Jesslyn Ilchyna of Revelation Martial Arts in two minutes 11 seconds with a submission at Brandon Bouts 2: Submission Only Grappling at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium in one of 21 Brazilian jiu jitsu matches.
“I went out just trying to have a fun time,” Carnell said. “My opponent Jesslyn is really good, she put good pressure on, which I was kind of hoping she would so that I could get that throw. I was wanting to get a scissor choke to finish with but I guess the smother scarf choke — I don’t what it really was — was what I finished off with.
” Carnell had her opponent so thoroughly tied up that she actually made it tougher for the match to end. “I felt kind of bad because I had both of her hands pinned so she couldn’t really physically tap,” Carnell said with a chuckle. “She had to mumble tap by saying it.
” Carnell started in Brazilian jiu jitsu in Grade 8, doing it until Grade 11 when she joined the high school wrestling team. While she was a good wrestler, she ended up with a bulging disc in her back and took her Grade 12 year off. She resumed jiu-jitsu training when she came to Brandon last year.
“I just really like the aggressiveness of the sport,” Carnell said. “I grew up with brothers, so that’s always been a thing. I was into water polo when I was younger so it’s more the aggressive sports that draw me.
I like the feistiness of combat sports.” Chris Kading, the owner and operator of WAMMA Brandon, said it’s nice to have Carnell back in Brandon. “Beatrice is just a great addition to our club,” Kading said.
“She had trained with us and she had moved back to B.C. She’s now joined the infantry at Shilo, which means she’s going to be here for at least three years.
“She’s a huge asset to our club, not only her skill, but just her attitude. She’s so nice to have around. It’s going to be really encouraging for more women to come down.
” After watching her win, he said the key to her success is the fact that she never seems to get rattled. “It’s how relaxed she is,” Kading said. “She’s still a young competitor but she’s very relaxed and calm, and that usually takes a long time to develop into someone older.
Twenty-year-olds are usually rammy-jammy and don’t think as much as they move. She’s just phenomenal. She’s so coachable and nice to have around.
I could talk endlessly about all her merits.” While Carnell competed in wrestling a lot, she has only participated in two jiu-jitsu tournaments where there was a bracket of competitors. This was her first super fight that was one and done, which allowed her to see many of the final fights.
After her match and a break downstairs in the athletes’ area, Carnell took a seat in the front row of the auditorium and kept a close key on the proceedings. She said she can learn a lot. “I feel like when you watch other people, you can try and anticipate their moves and other people’s counter moves,” Carnell said.
“It definitely helps your game personally. Jiu jitsu is like chess. You’re trying to figure out what people are doing with different grips they have and different ways they’re placing your weight.
If you can understand if they grab this and you move my weight over a little bit to the left they’re most likely going to do that, you can see other people do it and clarify that in your head and practise it when you’re live rolling or competing out here.” Overall, the event went smoothly, although Brandon’s Mika Coles injured her knee the week of the fight and her bout against Raina Rempel had to be cancelled from what had been a 22-match card. The only other current WAMMA Brandon member to earn a victory was Doug Morley, with Carwin Craig, Jillian MacDonald, Kody Keeler, Colin Craig, Kayden Klassen and Troy Stanley all falling short.
Chimdugan Chima-Boms of AR Brandon was also defeated. Kading said that was product of him wanting to push his students to battle against top-notch competitors instead of making it a guaranteed-victory night. “My group had very tough matches,” Kading said.
“I’m one of those coaches who will put my students in against very difficult, game opponents, whereas some coaches will have a different approach altogether. Every one of our students’ matches were very good. One lost rather early and I know he’s going to be a little upset, but that’s the jiu-jitsu game.
” Kading was pleased from a technical perspective with what he saw from the 21 matches. The first card in 2023 had more black belts but in action, but Kading noted the junior belts can deliver more compelling fights to the untrained eye. “For this one primarily, we wanted to have some more lower belts,” Kading said.
“The lower belts tend to be younger and usually more aggressive and twitchier and more exciting for the fans. “The higher levels are still very, very exciting but I don’t think there’s as exciting if you’re not familiar with Brazilian jiu jitsu because it’s just microscopic movements and they’re trying to gain little advantages, where at the lower levels they can quickly gain advantages. It’s a quite a slower process at the black belt, brown belt level.
” The good news for fans of Brazilian jiu jitsu is that Brandon Bouts 3 is in Kading’s plans. There might just be one adjustment for the owner of the Deer Ridge Golf Course, however. “There will be a Brandon Bouts 3 for sure,” Kading said.
“We’re going to start looking at that right now. We’re going to definitely have the next one a little earlier. It’s a little difficult to try and have an event while you’re opening a golf course as well.
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