I have had the amazing opportunity to learn from Relson Gracie two out of the last four days as he has been in Colorado for a couple of seminars.
Last Saturday he was in Boulder at Boulder Grappling Academy, and on Sunday he had a seminar at Relson Gracie Academy in Littleton. Relson returned to Boulder yesterday to teach the school’s regular classes for the day.
Relson is a cool guy with great (and often funny) stories about his family, growing up in Brazil, and his Jiu Jitsu. In addition to the knowledge and credibility anyone would expect from the leader of their school’s organization, Relson is low key, friendly, and welcoming. I suspect this affords intangible benefits to the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu schools in his association.
In addition to the learning techniques and self defense, I was also promoted with a new notch on my belt!
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