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Fabricio Team 7-26-10

I have to apologize first of all for not updating the blog as much i told you guys i would, but life here is somewhat hectic. Yesterday was one of the hardest practices i had here, i returned to the Fabricio Team, to try out their night class (i heard it was pretty intense). There were in total 7 students, 4 black belts (one being a world and brazilian champion) 1 brown, 1 purple and 1 blue. Fabricio the head instructor is friends with my dad, and said my dad taught him alot along with Oswaldo.
The gym only allows 2 partners to train at once, and barely train b/c you need to constantly stop to return to the center. Altough i felt i was moving slower then usual, i did pretty well only tapped once to one of teh black belts, and trained pretty well with the rest, i passed the guard from all of them. Something i found interesting in the gym is that many of the students were smaller guys around 130lbs-160lbs and they all more very well making it very hard for someone like me to dominate them.

Unfortunetly i am unable to upload the pictures i have taken, Shay took the adapter of the camera with her. AND IF YOU GUYS WANT ME TO WRITE ABOUT ANYTHING IN SPECIFIC GYM OR PLACE IN BRAZIL LET ME KNOW.

SEE YOU GUYS SOON,
RAFAEL PENHA

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BRAZIL, BRAZIL

For obvious reasons i havent been updating the website as much as i should be, also i have not been able to go to gyms as much as i would like since Brazil completely shuts down during the world cup, jiu jitsu gyms shut down too. SInce Brazil was eliminated today gyms will be open everyday now.
I have been in Brazil for 10 days and was only able to train 4 times at Carlson Gracie Ari Galos, school, at Oswaldos and at Equipe Fabricio. TRaining is definitely different in Brazil, maybe next week i will have some Oswaldo positions to show you guys and maybe an interview with the legend himself.