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No school will be held on March the 6th due to the tournament. Even if your not in the tournament, make sure you come out and support your brothers!

Location:
Clear Brook High School
4607 FM 2351
TX 77546

Ronnie Stevens, our brother,  was a student here. He had to move to Moscow in Russia for work, but is scheduled to return to Houston next week. After a week or two to relax on vacation and enjoy the warm weather, he will be back to train with his family again...and he brought a new member and future jiu-jitsu champion with him!!!

The pictures are in the picture section

http://www.graciebarratx.com/gallery_photos.php?id=629

Professor Draculino went to Brazil last December to headline the annual Gracie Barra BH graduation. There were almost 500 people on the event and we have graduates for all the belts and stripes.
The climax of the event was the promotion of the new Black Belts. There were several students from Draculino's main school and others fom affiliated schools all over the State. There were 20 plus new Black Belts, all with high level of technique and having what it takes to wear the ultimate Martial Arts outfit.
There was lots of emotion when the 100 plus Black Belts under Professor Draculino made an homage by giving him a Silver Plaque with some of the sayings Professor likes to mention.
Also, the instructors of the main school got a plaque as well ( Mauro Rodrigues, Sergio Benine, Claudio Mattos, Edson Jorge and Gustavo Franca Coelho) and our beloved brother who was killed last year, Vinicius Batore Caetano, got his Honor Black Belt. His father and mother were there at the ceremony and received it.They stated that Jiu-Jitsu was Vinicius biggest passion and that the Black Belt was his dream.
For you who doesn't know, Vinicius was a National Champion, National Teams Champion and International Champion on the CBJJE organization as a Purple Belt.
Pictures of all this events coming soon.

Professor Draculino visited Gracie Barra Abilene, under the direction of Jeremy Henderson and taught a seminar to a great group of students. The date of the event was January 16th. Draculino showed some points and details on the side control position and also defenses and counters to that.
The highlight of the event was the promotion of Jeremy to the Purple Belt 3 stripes. Congrats!

Our very own Nick Felder is teaching a Cardio class at GB Texas every morning from 9am to 10 am. That class is a great way for a person to get in a better shape by doing exercises based on some striking techniques and others. The ladies doing that class are loving it! Anyone interested please call the school to get more information.

 For you Mozilla Fire Fox browser you can now add "persona's" and creae your own look for your browser. I made one for Gracie Barra Texas. If you want to check it out, it is realy easy, Here is how you do it.

After you download Fire Fox, install Persona's from this website

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/

 Then search for "Gracie Barra"  or follow this link

...Highlight "Draculino Gracie Barra Texas" and then click Wear it. Enjoy guys!

DraculinoBJJTraining.com is given a brief introduction in March’s issue of GracieMag.  To read the full introduction, click on the images below the excerpt.

“The Carlos Gracie Jr. student to produce the most black belts (over 60 of them) Vinicius Magalhaes will appear in three dimensions coming in February.  It’s not that the teacher of Romulo Barral was made into a Hollywood flick, or that he’s responsible for the lethal triangle that subdued the giant bird in “Avatar”, in the best scene of James Cameron’s latest endeavor.  Draculino did do a series of film shoots, but the innovative technology he got involved in was meant for the evolution of his Jiu-Jitsu, dear reader.”