Carlos Machado promotes first Black Belts in Texas!

[jhinds]

An excerpt from a recent Carlos Machado mailing:

"I am extremely proud to announce the names of my first Texas Black Belts in Machado Jiu-Jitsu! The names of the students who will become Machado Black Belts are as follows:

Klay Pittman
Tim Burrill
Travis Lutter
William Vandry

At 1:00pm on June 1st, 2002 at the 2002 Texas BJJ championships there will be a belt ceremony to officially award the belts to these outstanding students. Please everyone try to attended this event. It is a first for Texas and something we will always remember in the coming years. Later this month I will also release the new rankings for all current Machado Students in Texas."

Congratulations to these four. That is quite an impressive feat.

-Jarrett

[HardcoreJJ]

hmmm

whatever happened to kathy brothers??????
I thought she was a blackbelt....didnt she come from his school?
and why all at once anyways?

[jhinds]

Not sure what happened to her. She tapped me out (nearly choked me out with a triangle) at my first Machado JJ class back in '97. I don't know if I was more shocked by the "position" of the technique or the fact I couldn't pull out of it. Either way,it was a nice introduction to the art I believe she was his first purple belt at the time, but I am not sure. I haven't seen her since then. I did hear about her fighting in some NHB locally a while back, but that's it.

Not sure why he is promoting several at a time. It's obviously his perrogative. Being such an awesome instructor, he has a ton of extremely talented students under him. I have no idea, but with all of that talent, I would guess there will be more promotions like this in the somewhat near future.