We’re proud to announce that Eduardo de Lima has awarded his first two black belts to Jeff Semonick and Richard Travis after their performance at the 2007 Pan American Championship. Each have put in roughly a decade of hard work and are well-deserving of the honor.

Gracie Barra Tampa is hosting the Tampa Invitational 2006 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament!

Registration and wavier form: Download here.

Date: Saturday, February 25, 2006
Time:
Registration—9:00-10:00 AM
Matches start—10:00 AM
Cost: $35.00
Location:

Gi only. No age brackets.

Rules available on the Florida Federation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu website.

Ranks:

• White belt (with white absolute)
• Blue/purple belt (with blue absolute)

• Absolute—open weight and rank.

  Weight classes:

  • 169 lbs. and below.
  • 170-195 lbs.

• 196 lbs. and up.

  Prizes! First place Absolute divisions wins an Atama gi and a medal. Second and third place win medals.

Gracie Barra Tampa held its first annual Gathering on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005. Over 150 photos have been added to the new Gathering 2005 gallery!

The big news from the event are all the new belt promotions!

Blue Belt

• Sheth Berkofsky
• Silvana Mayer
• Eric Mitchell
• Krissy Mitchell
• Rob Mitchell
• Ray Ruble
• Craig Sidorowicz
• Greg Soares

• Mark Ward

  Purple Belt

• Jeff Allred
• Leslie Corsa
• Jeff Cuttitta
• Rafael De Lima
• Mike Geery
• Miguel Goncalves
• Robert Hughes
• Timothy Lee
• Terry Means
• Nelson Mune
• Alex Muniz
• Jim Valco

• Kamané

  Brown Belt

• Ryan Cook

• James Feidler

  Congratulations to everyone! Keep up the hard work.