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Mixed Martial Arts, Thaiboxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Combat Submission Wrestling, Jeet Kune Do, Women's Self-Defense, Boxing and Filipino Martial Arts
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12-15-2000, 09:28 PM
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| Novice Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Playa Del Rey, CA, USA
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 |  I was very impressed with his technical ability at this year's Mundial...and in such a short time!
__________________ ...if you never tap, you're slowing yourlearning, you're not taking risks in class... |
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12-15-2000, 10:04 PM
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| Master Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Southern California!!!!!!!!
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 | I believe he started with Ralph Gracie, and then went on to train with Nova Uniao in Hawaii. He is awesome... a phenom. Black belt in 3 years and submitted a few guys en route to winning his black belt division at the Mundials. Daniel Camarillo used to post here... I'm sure he has more info... so does http://www.onthemat.com
__________________ -EJ "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of the women!" - Conan The Barbarian |
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12-15-2000, 10:13 PM
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| I was lucky enough to see him as a white belt on his first visit to train with ralph. I had no idea who he was, but even as a white belt with no experience he stood out. ralph would demonstrate a move once and he would just get it, and do it smoooooth. I rolled with him once, oh my, that was so funny. |
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12-15-2000, 11:09 PM
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| just read bj's bio...very impressive and he's only been training around 3 - 4 years!
__________________ ...if you never tap, you're slowing yourlearning, you're not taking risks in class... |
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12-16-2000, 04:07 PM
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| Did BJ actually have NO grappling experience when he started BJJ? I read his bio and it said that he did some with his TKD instructor. I wonder how good he was before studying BJJ. Whatever the case, his bio is really impressive. It sounds like this guy has natural talent dripping from his pores. |
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12-17-2000, 11:46 PM
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 | The guy's a phenom. I used to train At Cesar Gracie's Academy and I always heard about this guy at Ralph's Academy that was suppose to be the "Michael Jordan of jiu-jitsu". We received our blue belts within 6 months of each other and 2-3 years later I'm just now getting close to a promotion to purple "maybe" in 2001. The guy has more natural talent than anyone I've ever seen. |
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