This Saturday (16th of August) Nic Gregoradies, one of the instructors at the Roger Gracie Academy was graded a black belt by Roger Gracie.

Congratulations!!! 

Last month five members of the Roger Gracie Academy made the trip to Brazil to compete in the Rio International Championship and Rio Masters and Seniors Championship.

Nick Brooks and Daniel Strauss put on a great performance both getting golds in their categories. With Nick winning by a choke in the final and Daniel submitting almost every opponent in less than two minutes, they made their way to the podium in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro on the 25^th of July.

Here are the full results for the RGA members:

Daniel Strauss- 1st place, blue belt under 69

Nicholas Brooks- 1st place, brown belt, under 69

Stacey Wilson- 3rd place, brown belt, under 82

Kevin Capel- 2nd place, purple belt under 64

Joanna Ziobronowicz- 3rd place, blue female under 64

 The  weekend after the Championships in Rio, another competition was held in Buzios, Brazil. Some of the results were as follows:

Stacey Wilson- 1st place in brown belt under 82 and 2nd place in the absolute

Joanna Ziobronowicz- 3rd place adult blue under 64 and 2nd place in the absolute

Congratulations to all those who competed!

In what was a very full on few weeks Roger managed to fight in Japan and then this weekend fight and win his division in the IBJJF world championships.

Roger faced tough Judo and Jiu Jitsu black belt Leonardo Leite in the final of his weight category.

For some of the match they had been grip fighting from standing until about the 5 minute mark. Leite got a takedown at 5m53s for 2 - 0. At 6m42s Roger managed a sweep to make it 2 - 2. Then Roger worked his way to the mount  and went 9 - 2 ahead. Roger slowly crept up to work the hands in for the choke with under two minutes left and then at the 9m59s mark Roger made Leite tap from the choke.