We are headed up to Santa Cruz the weekend of Oct 15-17 to compete at the US Open. Sign up ASAP if you want to compete. There will be free accommodation at David Telfer’s parents house for the first number of people who tell him they want to kick it with the Telfer clan! Come join Robot and the rest of the Lotus Club while we rock this tournament. http://www.usopenbjj.com/
In case you haven’t heard, we have two new US National Champions at Robot! Tim and Laercio both won hard brackets to take home gold at US Nationals! Among the many Lotus medals, the following Robot competitors won the following medals: Laercio Fernandes: Gold Tim Peterson: Gold David Telfer: Bronze Dom Hoskins: Bronze Pat Gunderson: Bronze For more info, check out Robot Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/Robot-Fight-Fitness/146152425424065?ref=ts
Congratulations to all those who received new belts and stripes this Saturday! Photos coming soon!!! Belts and Stripes were awarded to the following: David Telfer: Brown Belt Dom Hoskins: 4 stripes on Blue Belt Mike Martinez: 4 stripes on Blue Belt Jerry Fang: 3 stripes on Blue Belt David Kwon: Blue Belt Caesar Chu: Blue Belt Dewayne Wilson: Blue Belt Fred Maniquis: Blue Belt Robert Gonzales: Blue Belt Mechum Purnell: Blue Belt Dylan Lubell: 4 Stripes Yellow Belt Alex Leavitt: [...]
Lotus (Robot/OC) swept the Tinguinha competition this weekend bringing home about 90% of all medals awarded. Even after moving up to higher weight classes, David Telfer and Jun Chong (Lotus OC) closed out the purple belt division and Tim Peterson and Evan Cathey (Lotus OC) did the same against much bigger opponents in the brown belt division. Lotus closed out 3 different brackets!!! (This means we took 1st and 2nd place!) Congrats to all those who competed and especially to: [...]