Team Many Weapons won 5 Medals!

The 2010 Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship took place in Irvine, CA from April 8th to the 11th. The largest tournament in IBJJF  history gathered over 2800 competitors from all over the world. Team GD Jiu-Jitsu/Nova Uniao was represented by 30 competitors who were able to win 20 medals! The standouts of the Team Were: Christian Broadnax, who won both his weight and the Open Class in the Blue/Juvenile division, Kristina Barlaan, who won the feather weight division and took third in the Open Class, accumulating  a total of 9 matches in one day, and Phil Brown, who had the most matches (total of 6) to win his division in the Blue/Master/Middle. Also, Team Nova Uniao took 1st place  in the Juvenile division with the three gold medals won by the Broadnax Brothers. More pictures will be available soon. Here are our Team’s full results:

1st Place

Purple

Pedro Diaz – Medium Heavy/Senior 3

Blue

Christian Broadnax – Medium Heavy & Open Class/Juvenile
Kristina Barlann – Feather/Female
Phil Brown – Middle/Master
Ryan Laurent – Light Feather/Master
Christopher Broadnax – Middle/Juvenile

White

Kelly Corder – Heavy/Senior 1

2nd place

Brown

Paul Nava – Open Class/Senior 2

White

Summer Begay – Heavy/Female
3rd place

Brown

Paul Nava – Middle/Senior 2

Purple

John Cordera – Light Feather/Adult
Pedro Diaz – Open Class/Senior 3

Blue

David Margraf – Ultra Heavy/Adult
Kristina Barlaan – Open Class/Female
Danny Palmer – Light/Master
Eddie Welch – Light/Senior 1

White

Matt Mamolen – Feather/Adult
Alex Gomez – Light/Master
James Calhoun – Middle/Senior 1