10th Planet Watch

Eddie Bravo is now teaching at the Burbank gym. I’m not sure how long this will be for, but we at Burbank couldn’t be happier to have him. The teaching schedule is as follows.

Eddie Bravo (Advanced 10th Planet)
Monday – Thursday 8:30- 10:00pm, Tuesday and Thursday mornings @ 11:30 – 1pm

Scott Epstein (10th Planet All Levels)
Monday and Wednesday 11:30-1

Victor Acosta (Muay Thai)
Tuesday and Thursday 7-8, and Saturday 1-2

Alder (10th Planet Fundamentals)
Monday and Wednesday 7-8:30, Saturday and Sunday 2-3:30

Ian Quinto (10th Planet Open Mat, invite only)
Sunday 3-5pm

We have a whole bunch of Kids classes too, so if you got little tikes, haul’em on in.

www.10thPlanetBurbank.com

“Johns second fight in the Absolute division winning with the electric chair”

Round 3

Outro

Round 1

Round 2

The rest of the fight will be in tomorrow’s blog.

I pulled this off the UG, (mixedmartialarts.com) Link to thread

From: EddieBravo
Posted: 1 hour ago
Edited: 06/24/09 5:02 PM
10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu, www.thetwister.tv Member Since: 5/9/02
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I did not give Brandon his brown belt.

I have known Brandon for many years, met him at JJ’s a long time ago while he was a student of black belt David Dunn. He also trained from time to time at 10th planet over the years. Many of my students are also full time students elsewhere, so his sporadic training at my school was quite normal.

When he approached me for affiliation he told me he was a brown belt and since I knew him for many years I never verified his brown belt, I just believed him.

Since the ability to teach my system is more important to me than the color of your belt i just checked him on his 10thplanet knowledge, which was pretty damn good.

I am not looking for champions to run my affiliates, just good teachers that understand my strategies, philosophies and have complete command of the 10th Planet terminology, which Brandon had down solid, and so does Ari, who got his purple from me directly.

Now that Brandon’s brown belt is in question, I called him yesterday and asked him exactly where he got it.

Now i know why he’s hesitant to explain how he got it publicly.

Turns out, according to Brandon, he got his brown belt from a bjj black belt while he was in the army. A guy named Sergeant Jason Keen who years later turned out to be a fake black belt.

Srgt Keen claimed he got his black belt from a Gracie military system called G.R.A.P.P.L.E. or something like that, but it turned out he lied, so basically Brandon’s brown belt is not legit.

Now the question is, what am I gonna do about this situation?

There are a few routes I can take, but I will discuss this with my top disciples before I make my final decision.

I take full responsibility for not verifying the legitimacy of his brown belt before official affiliation was complete, I will do my best to make sure this does not happen again

apparently we here at 10th planet have just been wasting your time, and hard earned money trying to teach you our system. Here’s the ONLY thing you need. Next time I go into a business meeting, with my Gracie Combative Tools, I’ll be more prepared knowing I can tap out my associate.

taken down due to it wouldn’t stop playing automatically here’s the link

Ari, you forgot to mention all the ALDER videos that will still be available (in theory). Of course this will only happen as soon as I get off my lazy ass and in front of the camera. But I’m really camera shy and kinda a douche bag, so I wouldn’t want to misrepresent the system, so maybe not. But none the less, you should ALWAYS mention me in your future videos.

Oh and btw, I’m taking down my youtube vids too. I’ll be moving 10thplanetwatch.com over to www10thPlanetjj.com as well. I’ll keep everybody posted.

John Botello on his way to taking 2nd place rolls in his 1st match that goes to OT at Desert Quest in Mesa, Az. on May 30,2009.

Here’s footage of me teaching middle school at my seminar at 10th Planet Rochester. Enjoy!

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