Thank you to our Brazilian black belt guests, Dentinho and Pimenta, for the insightful seminar and teaching us all some cool new moves and helping us perfect the ones we already knew. Both of them will be back in October so look out for information on private lessons.

Last, but definitely not least, a BIG congratulations to Reid Walsh for his promotion to purple belt!

Here are the first, second and third place winners of the tournament:

Blue/Purple Super Heavy

1) Carlos Bergante

2) Devin Rourke

3) Jonathan Deckert

Blue Heavy

1) Phil Joo

2) John Papaioannou

3) Zach Theisen

Blue Light

1) Colin Shook

2) Micah Catuto

3) Nick Clem

White Heavy

1) Bruce Bugbee

2) Hector Alvarez

3) Eric Twickler

White Medium/Light

1) Jesse Hickey

2) Chris Kidwell

3) Rick Gaines

If you are interested in competing, please attend these in-house tournaments and other competition team meetings. It is important to get experience and learn how a tournament works before hitting a local, regional, national or world competition. For more information on what you need to do to prepare, talk with your head professor.