With the Machado nationals been & gone for another year, it's time to reflect on the awesome performances of our athletes.
365 competitors made there way to the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre for what is by far the biggest & best BJJ comp in Australia. With six mats running the day went very smoothly & full credit must go to John Will & his wife Melissa for such good organisation.
Jake Farnsworth was on a mission this year to avenge his lose in 2009 & re-capture his title. He did it in fine style, quickly submitting all three opponents with kimuras to take 1st place in the (open belt) 27-30.5kg division.

Next up was Ara Aroutiounian, dominating & submitting his first opponent with a nicely executed kimura from side control. Ara won his next match convincingly on points & then fought a very close & intelligent final match to take 1st place in the (open belt) 16-17years 79-84kg division.
 
Robert Sabaruddin faced some very talented opposition & once again his quality shone through. Submitting his first opponent from north-south with a reverse guillotine & his second opponent with a rear naked choke to take 1st place in the blue belt 57.5-64kg division.

Not meaning to put any pressure on Andrew Fu but there was a common theme starting to develop amongst our athletes.
Andrew put on a great performance winning his first two matches via points with some wonderful strategic Jiu-Jitsu. The final was always going to be tough going up against a seemingly fresh opponent that had only had one match while Andrew had all three
matches in under half an hour. Still no excuses, thats the luck of the draw. Andrew fought a tough match & went down on points to take 2nd place in the blue belt 82-88kg division.

Overall an absolutely awesome result by all 4 competitors, 11 matches, 10 wins,  6 submissions, 3 golds, 1 silver.
Well done guys for representing our club so well & displaying such good technical JIu-Jitsu. We must be doing something right, you simply don't get those sought of results by chance.