Renzo Gracie and Sahid

Assistant coach at Roger Gracie Buckinghamshire, Sahid Khamlichi tested his Jiu-Jitsu skills at the Pan No-Gi in New York and came away with top spot.

Sahid won the gold medal in the heavyweight brown belt masters category.

This was Sahid’s debut as a brown belt.

He was only promoted to the rank last month by Roger Gracie. which makes it all the greater an achievement!!

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Yasmine Wilson on the podium

Yasmine Wilson, from Roger Gracie Academy Buckinghamshire, fought in the WPJJ Trials London in the beginning of March.

She finished first both at her weight division and the absolute.

With the results, Yasmine won the right to compete at the WPJJ 2012, next April, with all expenses paid by the event.

Congrats to Yasmine and her professor, Kev Capel.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk.

He put on a completely free Ladies self protection workshop using the techniques from Jiu-Jitsu that can help a smaller weaker person overcome a Larger agressor. The session was attended by 15 ladies from Aylesbury who all said they had a great time and were interested in doing some more training along the same lines.

The class covered topics such as defending yourself from attacks from behind, attacks from the front and defenses to attacks on the floor.

Due to the success of the class Kev is looking to put more free taster sessions on in the future and if the responses remain positive he will make it a permanent feature on the school’s timetable.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk

GMA member Roger Gracie had a memorable graduation ceremony last December 10th.

The leader of Roger Gracie Academy, in different locations in trhe UK, graduated no less than seven new black belts.

One of them was also GMA member Kev Capel, leader of Roger Gracie Buckinghamshire.

Roger and his father Mauricio Gomes have been working in the UK for a decade now.

Congrats to all.

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 There was a grading at RGA on 10th of december, at which Roger promoted 7 new blackbelts, here is a shot of the balckbelts that
have been promoted over the years, Mauricio and Roger have been building a very steady work for over a decade. expanding all over the country and
developing BJJ in a very positive way.

Maurição, Capel, Roger

GMA member Kevin Capel has completed another stage of his Jiu-Jitsu learning proccess.

On December 10th, the leader of Roger Gracie Buckinghamshire was awarded the black belt from no other than Roger Gracie himself.

Capel had a few words about it: “I started training with Mauricio Gomes[Roger’s father] 11 years ago, today was a good day. now, I plan to look forward to competing at black belt and concentrating on coaching my team at Rga Bucks”.

The GMA community congratulates Capel for his amazing accomplishment.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk

His students excelled at two different tournaments.

At the World Pro Cup British Trials, Yasmine Wilson became the first British female to qualify for the World Pro Cup.

Also at the Trials, Drazen Macan finished third at the blue belt.

Last weekend, at the British Open,  kev himself won the brown belt featherweight masters division.

Some of his students also did great. Sahid Khamlichi, Michelle Williams, Lizzie Jefferies, Dann McCall, Jake Kennet, Ed Ilball, Berie Cole, Donnie McDonald walked out with medals.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk.

Roger Gracie Buckinghamshire, under Kevin Capel, had a very special guest instructor early this month.

Roger Gracie,  three time absolute world champion, came to Aylesbury and taught a lesson to over 50 students.

Students were asked to make a donation to the Action for Brazils Children Trust which at the moment is concentrating its efforts for those affected by the recent floods that hit Rio de Janeiro.

Everyone had an excellent session with the world champ and some of the students were promoted by Roger.

A total of £607 was raised by the event.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk

Roger Gracie Buckinghamshire, under Kevin Capel, had a very special guest instructor early this month.

Roger Gracie,  three time absolute world champion, came to Aylesbury and taught a lesson to over 50 students.

Students were asked to make a donation to the Action for Brazils Children Trust which at the moment is concentrating its efforts for those affected by the recent floods that hit Rio de Janeiro.

Everyone had an excellent session with the world champ and some of the students were promoted by Roger.

A total of £607 was raised by the event.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk

Aylesbury town centre

Bucks is the nickname of Buckinghamshire, southeast England, near London.

One of the towns that are part of this lovely green part of the country is Aylesbury, where you will find street markets three days a week; where you can visit the Buckinghamshire County Museum and where you can catch a training session at the local Roger Gracie Academy.

Kevin Capel will be there waiting to teach you.

He is the head of the RG Buckinghamshire, now a GMA academy.

Kevin is a former UK military, a 1st Dan Black Belt in Judo and a black belt in Jeet Kune Do.

He started training in London with Roger himself and now he holds a brown belt.

For more info, go to rgaa.co.uk