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SUPERFIGHT NEWS: Ultimate Fighter Season 8, Team Minotauro’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Coach, DANIEL VALVERDE will face TUF Season 8 Finalist, Vinny “Pezao” Magalhaes on Friday, July 10th at 2:00 PM PST in a 6-Minute Submission Grappling Superfight at Grapplers Quest at UFC Fan Expo, Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Here’s what Vinny will be wearing.

Come on down to 10th Planet Vancouver and win with these essential street fighting 10th Planet techniques. *

**Mostly geared towards seniors and the mentally challenged.

Legit stud, Sean Bollinger steps it up on one weeks notice, and fights his first MMA fight. This kid is going to be great, mark my words. Peep him out at www.10thplanetjjriv.com

NAGA 2009 Jonesboro, GA Gi match

Rate his teaching. Legit?

“Kevin Green (owner of Triple Threat Combat Sports in Bear Delaware – www.ttcombatsports.com) teaches Twist Back Plan B Combo from the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsus system developed by Eddie Bravo.”

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 🙂