February 2, 2007
Brasa BJJ kicking ass at the European BJJ Championships
The European BJJ championships was held last weekend - on january 27th and 28th in Lisboa, Portugal. And the guys from my academy and our swedish affiliates travelled down to test out our stuff. Now a bunch of the best guys like Peter Blackwell and Arben Latifi couldn´t compete, but the guys that did gave a great showing.
Overall the swedish Brasa guys placed as the second best team in the adult division, and as the best team in the master & senior division. Congrats to all the guys that went.
Special shoutouts to new blackbelt Waldo Zapata who won the blackbelt master meio pesado division. Also to Mikael Kretz for taking the bronze in the blackbelt master medio division. Mikael and me have been training together for 21 years, passing through jujitsu to JKD/Kali/Muay Thai to BJJ.
Other standouts were brazilian Alan Nascimento, who is teaching at one of the Brasa schools in Sweden. Alan won the black belt medio division.