Ryan "Scoop" Heilman submitted Brett Millea in the only purple belt match

Ryan "Scoop" Heilman submitted Brett Millea in the only purple belt match

The 1st Kaju AZ/Nava BJJ Challenge took place in Mesa,AZ on December 5th. The in-house tournament, promoted by GD’s Brown Belt and Nova Uniao Mesa instructor, Paul Nava, the event brought in almost 70 competitors to the Kajukenbo AZ School. The tournament was sponsored by Many Weapons, who provided the competitors and referee’s t-shirts and the Padilla and Sons Kimonos. Team GD Jiu-Jitsu had a great showing. Check out the results:

Purple Belt

Ryan Heilman – 1st place/feather

Blue Belt

Greg McLarty – 2nd place/Medium Heavy

White Belt

Matt Mamolen and Steve Barnes closed out the Feather weight. Uriah Simpson won the Medium Heavy, While David Larson won the Heavy Weight. Our Female team was well represented by September Garcia and Summer Begay, who respectively won the Feather, and the Heavy weight Division.

David Larson

David Larson

Matt and Steve

Matt and Steve

September Garcia

September Garcia

Uriah Simpson

Uriah Simpson

Summer Begay

Summer Begay

 

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