You can now enjoy Clint’s intellectual musings from Twitter. Check out his tweets over there in the right hand column, above the Xyience logo.

Clint has cancelled all classes for this weekend, July 3, 4, and 5.

Is it just me, or does it seem a shame that we don’t have training on Monday nights? I’m thinking about it. I don’t know exactly what we can do, but there are always options. Before I go too far though, I want to make sure people are interested. It would be gi training and I have two basic questions: Would you show up on a regular basis? Would you pay a one dollar mat fee for it?

If you’re interested, send me a note: charles@grbjj.com.

From Mike Franklin:

Charles Franklin earned his first full belt promotion Friday, June 16th, when Clint awarded Charles his yellow belt. Coincidently, he received his red belt in Tae Kwondo from Chan’s Martial Arts only a day before. In addition, to his martial arts training, he has also been taking Saturday morning take-down class where he has developed addition skills.

Charles will soon begin additional training with private lessons with Chris Crampton to work on his submission skills. Charles has expressed a desire to compete again and we hope that he will be ready by fall to compete in submission class. Charles wants to thanks everyone for all of the hard work that they have put in training him and looks forward to getting back into it after a short vacation break.

Carlson Gracie Jr. put on another great seminar at the Grand Rapids Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, Wednesday, June 23 2009.

Photo courtesy of Jen LaFlure.

Jeff O’Neill takes first place in Saturday’s Elite Federation of Grapplers tournament, June 27, 2009.

Photo by Nancy Churches.

The results are starting to come in from Saturday’s Elite Federation of Grapplers tournament held on June 27, 2009. We’ve got videos to get you started and will post the results as people send them in (charles@grbjj.com).

Jeff, 1st place Gi and No-gi
Shane, 1st place No-gi
Nancy, 2nd place Gi
AJ 2nd place Gi, 1st place No-gi
Nathan 3rd place Gi and No-gi

Special thanks go to Nancy for the timely results, and Tim and Jody Bernhardt for taking the video and getting it posted so quickly.

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Effective immediately, the gi and no-gi classes on Sunday will be consolidated into one three hour long class starting at 1:30pm and ending at 4:30pm.

Also, if anyone is interested in getting together for a Saturday outdoor conditioning workout, please contact Ryan at ryan@grbjj.com.

Congratulations to young Mr. Charles Franklin, who earned his yellow belt, Friday June 26 2009. Charles trains in Chris Crampton’s kids class every Friday night.