3rd Degree Alliance Black Belt, CBJJO World Champion, IBJJF World Masters Champion, teacher of World Champion Tarsis Humphries, and training partner of legends like Marcelo Garcia and Leo Viera will be teaching at Foundry DC all Next week (May 6-12).

Takeyoshi will be teaching every class so be sure to get that mat time in!

Takeyoshi will be teaching a seminar on Saturday morning (May 12) from 10am-12noon.
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We all had a great experience in NYC and everyone had some great fights!

Brown:
Cesar, silver. Fought two tough matches and showed a lot of technique and heart.  Cesar lost a referee decision that made everyone wondering what happened.

Missy, silver. Despite just receiving her Brown Belt, Missy stepped up and fought a bigger three-year Brown, losing her match.  She also fought in the Absolute against a tough, technical and 50 lb heavier Brown Belt, fighting hard but losing.

Purple:
Bri, bronze.  Bri showed a ton of heart coming back from an early deficit and almost pulling out the come from behind win. Referee really missed a back take with hand in collar that Bri had and restarted them incorrectly, costing Bri heavily. 

Blue:
Bryce, bronze. Bryce lost a match that would have sent him to the final, 3-2.  Great fight and a lot of composure by Bryce!

White:
Garen, silver.  Garen won his first fight, dominating his Alliance opponent 22-0.  Garen had some great passing and transitions. Lost in final.

Nils, silver. Nils won his first fight by triangle.  Lost final on points to a late guard pass.

Christina had some tough matches against some strong girls.  She showed a lot of compsure staying tough in bad positions and then getting out and on top.

Really happy with our teams performance and we will be back stronger and in force, next year. 

No Gi:
James-gold & silver (advance absolute)
Wai Tam-gold
Nick Sallack -bronze
Justin Goodman-bronze
Sha Chowdury-silver
Darin Dobler-bronze

Gi:
White belt:
Darin Dobler-gold & silver
Rob Hellewell-silver
Blue Belt:
Wai Tam-gold

Kids:
Reina Danforth-silver (and another spectacular armlock) 
Alex Lee-Gold (10 second submission and a 20-0 victory)
Ty Danforth-silver

Also, congrats to Cong Nyguen who had some really tough fights against much bigger guys, including a great come from behind victory and just missing the bronze by a single point in the intermediate No-Gi.  ...and to Nils Tomsen, who had some solid victories and a sweet sweep to armlock. Nils lost the bronze medal match by a tie score, referee decision.