Thursday 16 January 2014

USA and Brazil BJJ trip 2014

Opportunties in jiujitsu are few and far between so after delaying my trip by a few months I took the opportunity to travel to South Carolina and train with my good friend Jeremy Arel then hopefully on to Brazil to train at Gordo jiujitsu.

I trained with Jeremy in 2010 at Gordo Jiujitsu when we where both staying at the original Connection Rio house back when I was a blue belt and he was a brown belt ( recieving his black belt on that trip from Gordo). It is really cool for me to have the chance to now go and train at his own successful and established academy in South Carolina, USA

Such a long trip pursueing jiujutsu isn't for everyone, but for me it was the right choice and I hope to make the most out of what will be my last trip for awhile (although I'm sure I said that last time!) through lots of training , competitions , and learning portuguese at long last! I had my first training session last night, lots of really good competition purple belts and a bad ass brown belt who recently won the worlds masters and seniors! Looking forward to some good training.

Please feel free to follow my journey at leewrightbjj.blogspot.co.uk and twitter @leewrightbjj.