Saturday, August 25, 2012

Hobart girls - new faces on the mats

The girls class in Hobart has always had a small but dedicated bunch of ladies who turn up each week. Recently we have welcomed Megan to the girls class. Megan has been bringing her kids Josh, 9, & Izzie, 5, to Thursday's kids class for quite a while now, and as we all know BJJ is infectious so it was only a matter of time before Megan joined in. By the way, big congrats to Josh and Izzie, who both received stripes this week! Today we welcomed another new face, Julie, who brought two of her boys (Oliver and Alex) to kids class for the first time on Thursday. With a 3rd son likely to join in after recovering from surgery it made very good sense for Julie to join in and learn how to defend herself against her boys! Ever-faithful team members Rach, Fiona and Jacinta trained today, along with Nic who has been AWOL recently due to work. Today was an excellent session focussing on knee-ride transitions and a couple of take-downs.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Tassie Comp

Good on Rach. Rach our smallest blue belt competed in the Tasmanian Championships in Launceston (and although was sick on the day put in a good effort!) And good on Bec! Bec came from Melbourne to compete! Unfortunately because of injuries/pregnancies/graduations our other blue belts couldn't participate. But we had a great cheer squad! I enjoyed screaming my guts out as other team mates competed! So proud of our team!! So Bec took home a gold in the open blue belt gi and Rach the silver!! And did I mention that with our powers combined EMWJJA took home a first place trophy? YAY!