GuamEarnsFirstSubmissionGrapplingWorldTitle
August 15, 2008 by admin
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Congratulations to Bryant Pangelinan for winning the Gld MEdal for the BlueBelt Masters Heavyweight Divisioin
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Bryant Pangelinan on Thu, 4th Sep 2008 3:31 am
Just found this through google!! Thanks again Ro!
Bryant "The Rock" Pangelinan is a World Champion | Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers on Wed, 10th Nov 2010 6:17 am
[...] 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 [...]