It's been 2 1/2 years since our last belt promotions. A lot of people were due!

Blue Belts:
Josh Vogelsang, Mat Arriola, Stephen Arriola, Jeff Sutton, Oscar Beltran, Ahmad Samad

Purple Belts:
Gabriel Green, Brad Crihfield, Brian Jimenez, Marcello Alvarez

Brown Belts:
Josh Jones, Albert Lee, Fernando Vargas, Mark Alvidrez, Ryan Medina, Matt Doyle

Tameem Hamoui wins his advanced division.

Best 2 out of 3 versus the other competitor in the division. Crucifix RNC submission in match 1. Win on points in match 2.

Tameem wins black belt gi in his weight class and black belt gi absolute.

2 crucifix RNC submissions and 2 points wins.

Tameem decided that he wanted to do the Grappling X tournament in Lake Forest, California the day after the ADCC trials.

3-0 nogi, 2-0 gi. All crucifix RNC submissions.

I went to go coach Tameem in the ADCC West Coast trials. Took lots of bad pictures! See above :P