We had a great showing at the last NAGA grappling event (the NAGC)!!!

The tournament took place on October 23rd in Hoboken, with over 1000 competitors.

As a team, we came in 6th out of 66th in the No-Gi Divisions for the day. it was awesome time at a HUGE tournament and we are very proud of this first outting as a large team, and i want to thank everyone who trained, competed, endured the day, and showed all the support. Keep up the good work guys.

Some of the athletes who placed were:

Jasper Chua — No-Gi Heavyweght Intermediate: 2nd Place
Peter Hastorff — No-Gi Light Heavyweight Novice: 2nd Place
Serge Zabarin — No-Gi Teens Beginner: 3rd Place
Christian Montes — No-Gi Middleweight Expert: 2nd Place

Congratulations to everyone - keep up the good work - see you at the next one!

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Congratulations to Erik on a well-deserved and overdue promotion to Blue Belt. Erik has received his Blue from his NYU BJJ coach Mike and Dave Ginsberg of BTT Boston (with my enthusiastic approval) . Be sure to give Erik a big congatulations as I hear he will be wearing his Gi and belt everywhere he goes now ;-) !