On December 1, 2007, the Kimura BJJ Academy’s level rises again and recognizes the improvements in skill of its students. In particular Bill Duffy, Diego Ferroni, Matthews Franco, and Marcos Silva were all awarded their purple belts, a great achievement for them as well as the Kimura Academy! Congratulations to everyone who participated in the promotion!

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The first ever Kimura BJJ Academy tournament saw a high level of competition in terms of the competitors as well as the organization. The matches were highly technical and full of respect and sportsmanship. The tournament ran very smoothly with 48 competitors from Kimura alone. This has paved the way for the next Kimura BJJ Academy tournament scheduled for February 23, 2008! Diego Ferroni deserves special mention as he won his blue belt weight division as well as both absolute divisions! Special thanks to Alexim Moving and Noberto Junior for sponsoring our tournament, we couldn’t have done it without you!

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On July 14, 2007, 65 students participated in the Kimura BJJ Academy belt promotion. With this promotion we now have 14 new blue belts at the academy as well as many blue and purple belts becoming one stripe closer to their next belts. Congratulations to everyone who participated! We look forward to seeing the level of the team get even higher!

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We are proud to announce that the Kimura BJJ Academy took 2nd place at the NAGA New England Championship on June 23, 2007! The tournament was held at Bryant University in Rhode Island and Team Kimura won 11 individual medals to achieve our team rank. More important than the victory is that, as always, team Kimura demonstrated teamwork and unity in our mutual support, coaching, and cheering of fellow teammates.

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The biggest BJJ N.A.G.A. Championship took place on Saturday in Jersey City, NJ. Kimura won 2nd place, with medals in 16 different white and blue belt division and also won on the purple, brown and black belt absolute division. The results should come out soon.

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The infamous Vitor Ribeiro “Shaolin” gave a seminar at the KIMURA BJJ Academy on Sunday, April 15th, 2007. “Shaolin” is from Nova Uniao and is a four-time world BJJ champion; he has 19 MMA fights with 18 victories. He gave a four-seminar at the Kimura Academy, with 3 hours of BJJ and 1 hour of Submission MMA.

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Kimura won for the second time the championship organized by the U.G.A. United Grapling Association that took place on March 17th, 2007 in Medford, MA. Kimura took home 27 medals!
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