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1st National American Jiu-Jitsu Quick Review Saturday & Sunday November 2 & 3, 2002
It was an incredible weekend. We are talking about the 1st National American Jiu-Jitsu tournament.
TheFightGame.tv missed the first half of the tournament on Saturday. We witnessed some incredibly tough and skillful matches from the masters division and the white belt division.
On Saturday we thought to ourselves, if these are the white belts, we can't wait to see the higher belts. Sunday was going to be great day - not only to see the other matches but we had one of our own competing.
TheFightGame.tv's Xavier Nava was going to compete in the blue belt 161+ division.
He was going to compete even though he hadn't really been training for this tournament.
In the past couple of months, I can count the number of times he's trained in one hand (but he still beats you webmaster - get with it already)
So he wasn't really prepared. And he knew this. But he still wanted to go out there and have fun. To top it off, we tried to take a short cut to the tournament and ended up lost. An hour and a headache later, we arrived. As soon as we got in we hear -"announcing last call for Xavier."
He got dressed quicker than Stone Cold could down a brew and jumps on the mat ready to go.
He started of really well - having 5 advantage points to 3 advantage points until about 40 sec. left in the match (out of 6 min.) when it happened - he gassed out and his opponent was able to mount him for two points. and that's how it ended.
Oh well, maybe
next time he will train harder and more times for a tournament.
TheFightGame.tv would like to thank Carlson Gracie Jr. / Jean Jacques Machado and all of the people who took time out of their busy day to talk to us and
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