https://fokai.tv/guamearnsfirstsubmissiongrapplingworldtitle/ Exhaust The Body. Proceed The Mind. Cultivate The Spirit. Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://fokai.tv/guamearnsfirstsubmissiongrapplingworldtitle/#comment-390 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:17:51 +0000 http://www.fokai.tv/fxv/?p=1211#comment-390 […] I first picked up jiu jitsu when I was still in college, at Relson Gracie’s academy in Hawaii in 1995-1996, but it wasn’t until after my last wrestling tournament in 2003 that I got serious about it.  It was then when Josh McDonald and I were still coaching wrestling together that he told me I should come down where he was training (at Cesar Gracie’s and Fairtex).  I had to learn jiu jitsu very quick, be it that some of my first partners were Jake Shields, Dave Terrell, The Diaz Brothers, and Gilbert Melendez.  I earned my blue and purple belts through Cesar Gracie.  Through the years I won the California Open No Gi Advanced Division in 2004 in Half Moon Bay, I was a finalist at the Gracie Open in the No Gi Advanced Division twice (I took 2nd in 2005 and I won it in 2006 defeating a Machado black belt when I was still a blue belt).  I won the No Gi Worlds in 2008 as a blue belt as well.  One of the nicest things about that victory was that I was the first ever World Champion grappler from my native island of Guam. http://www.fokai.tv/blog/?p=1211 […]

]]> https://fokai.tv/guamearnsfirstsubmissiongrapplingworldtitle/#comment-389 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:31:42 +0000 http://www.fokai.tv/fxv/?p=1211#comment-389 Just found this through google!! Thanks again Ro!

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