On Saturday, Dec. 6 Renato Tavares traveled to his affiliate academy Triton Fight Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma for his yearly seminar.

The event gathered a whopping 130 students together. Seventeen of them were black belts including Triton Fight Center head instructor Piet Wilhelm, Renato Tavares himself, James Foster of GMA Foster BJJ in Seattle, WA, Mike Budnik, Gina Franssen and others. During the seminar Renato taught various back-takes.

Along with the seminar came the belt ceremony. In all, there were over twenty promotions for those who were deserving of new belt ranks.

As part of the twenty, three special promotions came in the form of black belts to Reed Haji, Tim Holman and Omar French.

Omar was amazed and although super cool he says it was also super scary. “It was amazing! Not so much for getting the rank but because your instructors trust you to represent them. It was insane amazing.”

Learn more about GMA Triton Fight Center at www.tritonfightcenter.com

The promotion at Team Redzovic in Chicago, IL. Photo: Personal Archive

Our GMA members Adem, Eddie and Idriz Redzovic from Chicago, IL have promoted three of their students. This promotion was earned by long time students James Allen, Chris Pinto and UFC veteran Goran Reljic, who will be representing the Jiu-Jitsu family in Croatia.

The Redzovic brothers are thrilled for this giant milestone for their team. Congratulations to these GMA members, their students, and the new Jiu-Jitsu black belts around town.

For more information regarding this Chicago Jiu-Jitsu team go to www.chicagojiujitsu.com