Here we are again , the first seminar of the 2009 with Braulio Estima.
Friday night no gi session started with a quick warm up and straight into
it ,going over and tightening up on some previous techniques and adding
some fine detail,of course some rolling.
Saturday started with a session for the junior members of the Academy ,
with 20 juniors attending it was a great training session, at the end
Braulio awarded stripes to a number of the juniors.
20 students turn out for the GI session which was great to see , Chris
Goldsbrough came over from the GSY Academy with 3 students ,Brauilo was due to go over to the GSY academy on the Sunday.
The session started with the warm up then into some cool guard passing
techniques, as ever Braulio pulled the techniques apart and in is own
unique way explained ever detail so everyone from white to purple belt
could understand the techniques, After a half hour rolling session Braulio
awarded stripes to some of the students,
Then he produced two brown Belts which he awarded to Rob Staples and Andrew Toporis (Topo), the first two BJJ Brown Belts in the Channel Islands. (Braulio has only awarded 11 brown belts in the UK)
Then the whipping started, also Matt Norris was in for the whipping as
Braulio awarded him his purple belt at the BJJ Europeans.
Off to the airport to catch our flight to GSY only to find the flight had
been cancelled due to fog, unfortunately this ment that the GSY seminar
didn’t go ahead.
Braulio will be returning to the Channel Islands in June ,date tbc
We do have pictures but I am just in the process of resizing them. I will have them up some time today.
Cheers
Well Done Guys