Anybody see that kid win open weight at the pan..

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Originally Posted by bjjaz

You're Edwin right? Have you competed against him???

Yup, i lost to him 2 weeks ago at the pan ams in the final of our weightclass

[El Terrible]

Miyao brothers dazzle in Abu Dhabi

"Anyone who reads GRACIEMAG.com on a regular basis is already aware of some of the achievements of the Miyao brothers, a sort of Mendes brothers hailing from the Brazilian state of Paraná but now train at the São Paulo academy of Cicero Costha.

First, Paulo Henrique and João Ricardo Miyao shone in 2010 at a tournament promoted by Gabriel Vella at Pinheiros Club. Today, the brothers have reached even greater heights. And they have already gained a legion of fans. Among them, the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi.

Featherweight João Miyao went down the line beating each of his opponents in the absolute blue belt division until facing a tough (and big) judoka from Canada in the final.

“The rumor going around here is that the kids here trained day and night for this event, and even the black belts at the gym had their work cut out for them in trying to pass their guard,” whispered a teacher in Abu Dhabi. “João fought so well at blue belt that Sheikh Tahnoon stayed until the absolute final just to see him fight the big guy.”

Once the action had ended, the whole stadium applauded the smaller fighter’s victory. Now his brother, Paulo Miyao, was the winner at purple belt."

[Kenny from MD]

saw those two competing every weekend when i was in brazil. they live, eat, breathe, and sleep jiu jitsu. a very close friend trains with them and told me a ton of stuff about their lives. dedication that most people couldnt comprehend. cool to see them making names for themselves the right way.

[mtruitt76]

Originally Posted by gannas

https://graciemagpanjjen.wordpress.c...featherweight/

Only has 3 1/2 year of jiu jitsu training.

3.5 years is actually a decent amount of time. That is longer than I have done bjj. With that much time in he should be tearing up blue belts. Winning the absolute is still impressive given his weight, but tearing through his weight class not so much. Not trying to take anything away from the guy, but he should have been fighting as a purple if he has been training 3.5 yrs.
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[Feria]

This was confusing until I saw it was necro'd

[DesertStomper]

derp nvm

[Pojo18]

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[bjjaz]

Haha, cool seeing this thread.

[crocoppertones]

Originally Posted by chris1190

Yeah I wish there were some videos of that kid in the absolute I wish I could see those matches. I was in his division at pans and he looked very dominant in all of his matches in our division. Wish he would get his purple already, he won Brazilian nationals as a blue in 09 so he's kind of overdue...

wow. he won brazilian nationals 3 years ago and is still a blue. that seems a bit ridiculous.