Gracie Barra Tampa Promotions!

[Aesopian]

Gracie Barra Tampa held its first annual Gathering on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005. The big news from the event are all the new belt promotions Eduardo de Lima awarded!

Blue Belt

* Sheth Berkofsky
* Silvana Mayer
* Eric Mitchell
* Krissy Mitchell
* Rob Mitchell
* Ray Ruble
* Craig Sidorowicz
* Greg Soares
* Mark Ward

Purple Belt

* Jeff Allred
* Leslie Corsa
* Jeff Cuttitta
* Rafael De Lima
* Mike Geery
* Robert Hughes
* Timothy Lee
* Terry Means
* Nelson Mune
* Alex Muniz
* Kaman

 

[Soid]

Gsoares!!! Good shit.

 

[Sherdog_Mutt]

Wow lots of new purple belts. Congrats guys.

 

[Gsoares2***]

Man their were alot of people there..
It was a good time.. Had some beers after the promotions and chilled out with the master him self.

really was cool to see everyone move up..

 

[guardpasser]

it seems year ending promotions are really catching on in the U.S.
congrats to all listed

 

[Aesopian]

Over 150 photos of the event and promotions are up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28177070@N00/sets/1508053/

 

[Aesopian]

Bananas #1!

 

[Te(V)plar]

Holy shit, that is a worn-ass belt.

 

[Zankou]

Awesome. Congrats to everyone, particularly gsoares.

 

[Aesopian]

Holy shit, that is a worn-ass belt.

What's funny is that he actually has a new belt, but he only used it to flog people as they got promoted, as you can see here:

 

[sakufan]

Nice pics. Good to see the old man having fun.

 

[kuroMaguro]

Man their were alot of people there..
It was a good time.. Had some beers after the promotions and chilled out with the master him self.

really was cool to see everyone move up..

So much for the gracie diet... DOH

 

[Aesopian]

You had to bring organic beer. No joke.