Saturday 20th June saw the QLD BJJ Championships held in Brisbane.  Our Sunshine Coast BJJ team took a small group of fighters to this tournament (some of our fighters were out with injuries and illness).  We took home a total of 7 medals - 4 gold and 3 silver.

Congratulations to the following members that won medals: 

Hailey Szoke - GOLD in gi and GOLD no-gi.

Steven Threlfo - GOLD in no-gi and SILVER in gi.

Tom Shuller - GOLD in the U12 years

Kian Strong - SILVER in the U8 years

Shane Moore - SILVER in gi. 

I will post a more detailed report of the day during the week! 

Congratulations to all Sunshine Coast Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu members that competed at the recent Gold Coast BJJ Championships.   

Once again we outperformed for our team size, bringing home 6 gold medals.  The results are listed below:

Duane Gordon (61-67kg), Duane also won Bronze in the Absolute division.

James Lennard (91-97kg)

Hailey Szoke - 2 gold (Female Blue Belt & Female Open)

Steven Threlfo (Male Blue Belt - U91kg)

Chad Wright (Male Blue Belt - 97+kg) 

These results once again recognise the achievements of an excellent BJJ squad, and I would like to thank all involved in these achievements - the members and the coaching team.  Without such a great attitude toward learning and training these kind of results wouldn't be possible.

April gradings were some of the best we have ever seen at Infinity Martial Arts, with students achieving an ever higher level of skill.  Results were as follows:

Adult Grading:
Black Tips - Brodie McGaw

Pythons (4-8yrs) Grading:
Black Tips - Joshua Parker
Awesome Effort Badge - Connor Fitzpatrick

Scorpions (8-12yrs) Gradings:
Black Tips - Caitlin Russell, Clay Davis & Emily O'Dwyer
Awesome Effort Badges - Ethan Reed, Kirra Cairns, Jai Chapman

Tiger Sharks (12-16yrs) Grading:
Black Tips - Meeka Lee

Special congratulations to Instructor Scott Nicholson who has been working hard with all the juniors, and his efforts showed with outstanding results for all Currimundi juniors.  

On Sunday 5th April, some of our junior students competed at the QLD open.  Many thanks to Instructor Scott Nicholson, who accompanied the students to the competition.

We had some good results with 3 students bringing home medals.

Kian Strong - Bronze

Tom Schuller - Silver

Maddison Manteit - Bronze

Keep up the hard training for the next competition - the Queensland titles on June 20th.

The next BJJ seminar will be held at the Infinity Studio Sunshine Coast (Currimundi) on Saturday 18th April.  The seminar is free for all current BJJ members and will start at 2:00pm.  This seminar will be hosted by BJJ black belt Daniel Lima.