"This year proved to be the biggest and best Gracie Invitational. With the Saturday being the proving ground for the white and blue belts, followed by a Sunday full of high level action from the purple, brown and black belts.
The Roger Gracie academy with only half the amount of competitors compared to last year, again won the Gracie Invitational teams results, with his close friend and training partner Brauilo Estima (Gracie Barra Brauilo Estima) Birmingham based team coming in third. Coming a second place was Carlson Gracie Revolution Team on 135 points.

Daniel Strauss from RGA was voted the best competitor of 2006 - 2007 by winning most of competitions he entered over the last year with his win at the no-gi mundials being the highlight.


Best Team of 2006 - 2007: Roger Gracie Academy
(Entered and won more tournaments than any other team of 2006 - 2007)"

(source: www.efnsports.com)

Congratulations to all who competed!  Here is the list of people from RGA who medalled at the competition:

1st Daniel Strauss - Feather Blue

1st Cesar Lima and Nick Brooks split in Brown Feather

1st Oliver Moss and Oliver Geddes split gold in Light, Blue

1st Dominik Debiec Middle Blue

1st Thomas Buckmaster Medium Heavy Blue

1st Bobby Rich Heavy Purple 

1st Bobby Rich Purple Absolute 

1st Derek Van Keusen Super Heavy White

1st Vernon O'Neill Brown Medium Heavy

1st David Junior Super Super Heavy White

1st Antonio Junior Super Super Heavy Blue

1st Yasmine Wilson Feather Blue

1st Joanna Ziobronowicz Light Blue

1st Christina Fraquelli Medium Heavy Blue

1st Christina Fraquelli Blue Absolute 

2nd Sam Rice-Edwards Feather Blue

2nd Grzegorz Nowak Middle Blue

2nd Suleman Johnson Middle Purple

2nd Nicolas Gregoriades Middle Brown Belt

2nd Lukasz Pilch Medium Heavy White

2nd Rod Elder Medium Heavy White

2nd William Lexton Super Heavy White

2nd Nicolas Gregoriades Brown Absolute

2nd Melissa Barfield Light Blue

2nd Indra Englund Medium Heavy Blue

3rd Sehyun Kim - Super Feather White

3rd Leo Aguilar  Feather Purple

3rd Jalal El Hazzat Light Blue Master 

3rd Javed Uddin Light Purple Senior

3rd Stephen (sid) Scaife Medium Heavy White

3rd Lorenzo Fraquelli Medium Heavy Blue

3rd John Kilibarda Heavy Blue Master

3rd Antonio Junior Mens Absolute Blue

3rd Dominique Vitry Feather Blue

3rd Christianne Bloomer Medium Heavy Blue

Last month our team has traveled to Bristol to compete. Here are some of the results:

BLUE LIGHT (-76kg)
1st – Oliver Geddes – Roger Gracie Academy

BLUE MEDIUM HEAVY (-88.3)
1st - Dominik Debiec – Roger Gracie Academy

BLUE SUPER SUPER HEAVY (over 100.51kg)
1st - Antonio Henrique Junior – Roger  Gracie  Academy

Mauricio Gomes promoted one of his original students, the Wing Chun expert Kevin Chan, to Black Belt today.

Roger Gracie, Felipe Souza, Jude Samuel, Gustavo and approximately 70 other students were present to witness the promotion, which also saw Steve Finan, Marcus Collinson, Richard Burleston, Vernon O'Neill, Jason Gregoriades and Gerald Ashby promoted to Brown Belt. Lex Deasley and Terence Thomas were promoted to Purple Belt, and James Bullock, Dean Carr and Daniel Agard St John gained their blue belts.