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Victory at the Good Fight
August 28, 2010

Saturday August 28, 2010 proved to be a great day of recognition for the LINXX Academy jiu jitsu competition team. The Good Fight returned to Virginia Beach to host The Battle at Virginia Beach II and LINXX met the mats with 17 registered fighters; eight of which had never been involved in a tournament. By the end of the day, 26 placements in different divisions along with 16 first place wins made for a very proud team and academy.

Nestor Bayot and James Gamble diligently worked with the team six days a week, six weeks out of the scheduled event. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday was training with the adults and every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday the juniors rolled with their coaches. After regular classes and competition training, Bayot and Gamble allotted as much time as each grappler wanted to roll on the open mat and to take advantage of the personal time with the seasoned coaches. During this time, techniques were discussed, form was polished, and everything else that may be concerning both fighter and coach was addressed.

“The time that Mr. Nestor, James, Patrick [Trinidad], and Jacob [Turpin] took with these guys really makes the difference [regarding] confidence on the mat,” LINXX mom and grappling fan Christina Corbe remarked. “The boys were really able to apply what they learned during these sessions when it came down to their matches.”

The Hilltop Community Church center in Virginia Beach was the site of the Good Fight event. The Good Fight is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Submission Grappling Tournament Circuit that offers both Gi and No-Gi divisions for kids, teens, men, and women of all ages. Divisions are divided by age, weight, and skill level; including an absolute for each division. All competitions under Good Fight are single elimination tournament formats, also known as the Madison System. Since it is a block-bracketing system there are no set-weight classes to sign up for. This prevents competitors from cutting excessive weight since they do not know the weight classes until after the brackets are posted the day of the tournament. Competitors benefits greatly because it allows them to be paired up with grapplers closest to their actual weight and skill level. This also allows almost everyone to have to grapple the same amount of matches to win first place.

Each placement earned the victor Crown points as well. “Crowned” is The Good Fight’s personalized ranking system for each of our unique Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Submission Grappling tournaments. As competitors win their respective age, weight and skill level divisions they will earn points toward individual year-end prizes and awards. Good Fight Crowned points can be viewed at www.crowned.tv.

Great news travelled quickly that Saturday. Before the tables closed up at Hilltop, victories had been shared and multiple pictures uploaded. It was clear that the fighters were proud of their performance and the coaches satisfied with their team. LINXX decorated the result pages the very next week but after congratulations were met graciously by each team member, shoes were taken right off, GI belts were tightened, and regular training commenced.