06.10.2008 Pan No Gi NY 2008Jiu-Jitsu goes to the Big Apple in great style Photos: Luca Atalla
Community College, NYC October 4Read the tournament's coverage. NYC Pan major star, Braulio Estima tangles with Tarsis Humphreys to win...  ... and to celebrate in a big, deserved fashion. NY based Rolles Gracie beat talented Lucas Lepri in the semis, to share the black belt open class first places with training partner Braulio Estima.  Two-time ADCC runner-up and 2007 No-Gi Worlds champion Pablo Popovitch climbed a weight category and conquered gold at medium heavy against Tarsis Humphreys. Rubens Cobrinha won the lightweight division against Daniel Aguiar but did not fight the giants of the tourney: "Fabio [Gurgel] opted to put Tarsis and Lucas in the Open Class, but that is okay", said the Alliance teacher.
With a great performance, submitting his three opponents in less than one minute a piece, Marcelo Uirapuru upset 2007 World Champion Lucas Lepri with this straight leg lock and took first prize in the middle weight category.
Braulio Estima's greatest weapon, his close guard, was in top shape against his Gracie Barra partner Roberto Tussa in this heavyweight final clash.
The best fight of the tournament might have been the open class quarterfinal battle between Roberto Tussa (right) and Tarsis Humphreys...
... in which, in the end, Humphreys got the edge by one advantage, after a 6-6 tie on the score cards.
Extreme Couture's Mikhail Cirkunov was the finest surprise of the tournament, taking the black belt super heavy division against former IFL star Andre Gusmao.
Bruno Paulista plays guard against Robert Constance for the blackbelt ultra-heavies.
Renzo Gracie (1st), Fabio Gurgel (Alliance - 2nd), and Reysinho (ATT - 3rd) more than happy with their adult thophies for the schools race.
Edson Diniz took the blackbelt Master absolute over Santa Barbara GMA member Rodrigo Clark in the very last fight of the tournament.
Another GMA member, Carlos Alberto Terrinha from Massachusetts, shone in the open class senior division, taking first place.
Talented NY Purple belt David Bass used a vast arsenal of attacks to take the open class division to his proud teacher Fabio Clemente.
Ricardo Almeida's Steve Kim did not waste his trip from Princeton, NJ, and won the master medium heavy division.
A crowded City College, in the upper west side of Manhattan island, hosted the first Jiu-Jitsu tournament held by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation in New York.
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