Jim DeCredico "Purple Belt Promotion"

Following this past Saturday BJJ class GR Black Belt Jiu-Jitsu Instructor Jeff Starr proudly promoted student Jim DeCredico to the rank of Purple Belt. Jim has showed the skill, attitude, and has been taking private lessons on a regular basis. Make sure the next time you see Jim you congradulate him on his accomplishment. If anyone else is looking to obtain rank make sure you attend classes somewhat consistantly and make sure you stick around to free after most classes when you can. Getting ranked requires you to be training and rolling in a gi during classes. Jeff looks at your skill but also your attendance. Obviously the more time you put on the mat the better you will most likely get.

GR Becomes an Officially Sanctioned School by the Thai Boxing Association!

We are proud to announce that GR is now an officially sanctioned school under Master Ajarn Chai and the Thai Boxing Association.

What this means is that we plan to add a little more structure to our already successful Muay Thai program.Current Muay Thai Instructor Jason Dent used to operate through the now defunct United World Muay Thai Association while GR Co-Muay Thai Instuctror Aaron Veverka has always been through the T.B.A. Since the U.W.M.T.A. no longer exsists we plan to make sure all instructors (Jason Dent, Aaron Veverka, & Mark Fredebaugh) are on the same page as far as technique, etiquette, history, testing students, and lesson plans in general. All three of GR's Muay Thai Instructors have competed and won in Muay Thai. Jason has around 17 fights, Aaron has around 13 fights, and Mark has 1.

Being sanctioned by the T.BA. has lots of perks for our school, one of those will be having access to bring in some world reknown Muay Thai fighters for seminars right here at GR and possibly one day we may actually get Master Ajarn Chai himself here if we are lucky.

The new certificate will be up in the front room as soon as we get a frame on it. Again this will be a slow process of change as all of our experienced instructors will be getting together occassionally to review, test, and train together. If anyone has any questions see Kru Aaron Veverka on thursday nights when he teaches Thai and he can best answer your questions and assist you since he is already a certified instructor under the T.B.A.

Thanks to everyone for your support of GR and as always we promise to work hard to improve the gym in as many ways as possible so that everyone gets the most our of what they are willing to put in.