What an awesome day!  It was a massive turn out with not only students but family and friends as well coming along to celebrate what has been a tough but really successful year.

Wow, just WOW!  What an amazing weekend on the Gold Coast.  I travelled down to the Coast as the Gladstone representative for Fight Club Jiu Jitsu at the end of year gradings, tournament and awards dinner.

The day went even better than I planned and all students performed above expectations to lift the standards yet again at our MMA gradings on Saturday.

It was only a small group to kick off with 5 student testing for prajiouds (armbands) but the standard was absolutely outstanding. 

What a blast!  Frank Barca proved to be a fantastic teacher and a very knowledgable representive of Eddie Bravo's 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu system.

He did it again.  Stef has come away with a huge swag of medals from an international tournament.

A very good Brazilian Jiu Jitsu grading by our student on the 10th of October.  Although we had a few last minute withdrawls due to work call ups, we still had 7 attempting their next level under the watch full eye of Daniel Lima.

We ended up with just over 70 competitors on the day and so the decision to run 2 mats at the same time was a wise one. 

The same problem as last year, most people are so sore and tired from the tournament the day before, that they can't bring themselves to come to seminars the next day.  Only 4 of us with Daniel for 4 hours - WOO HOO!  It was like a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Master Class Private Lesson and we loved it.

Sore sore sore is the only way to describe how most of us pulled up after 9 hours of training with a super pumped Daniel Lima on the weekend.  Daniel had only returned from training in Brazil a few days earlier where he was graded through to 2nd Degree Black Belt (a very big deal in BJJ) and also saw two of his students from Mackay get a Gold and a Bronze in the World Masters BJJ Championships.