This past Saturday we celebrated our Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu team with not one, but TWO gradings at both Absolute MMA Melbourne CBD and Absolute MMA St Kilda. Amazing to have students from all of our three gyms across Victoria join together for the occasion! Huge congratulations to our four new black belts Kim Cousins, Mikael Yahaya, Lachlan Warne and Alex Russell. It takes approximately ten years for a student to reach black belt level and we could not be prouder to have been a part of this journey with our students!
Also advancing to brown belt and surviving the gruelling physical test with technique honed through countless hours on the mats were Oliver Smith, Journ Tang, Matthew Karakoucakis and Jarrod Beardwood. There were some epic battles on the mats with our students being put through rounds for over two and a half hours!
We had 7 students advance to join our new purple belt crew, and these students are among some of the most dedicated individuals in the club. To all our new purple belts, congratulations and well done! We are also supremely proud of all our new blue belts who are a very impressive new cohort! You all have earned your blue belts, and as the first major milestone in your jiu-jitsu careers, this is certainly a moment worthy of celebration!
Thank you to everyone who put the graders through their tests and gave them support! We are so excited to see what the rest of the year brings for you and would like to thank you for being a part of our amazing grappling community.
