Angela Gracie has just informed me that our good friend and Black Belt Instructor under Prof. Royler Gracie and Prof. Rickson Gracie - Prof. Cleber Luciano will be staying with us in June/July. While he is here Prof. Cleber will teach a Gi and No Gi Seminar at the Beston Gracie Central Coast academy on Saturday the 2nd of July.

In keeping with the non-political environment at Beston Gracie Central, this is an open seminar - anyone wishing to join us for the seminar please contact Beston Gracie Central Academy Director - Angela Gracie to reserve your place. Anyone interested in private lessons with Prof. Cleber should also contact Angela Gracie.

Thanks again to our Academy Director Angela Gracie whose close relationship with the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu community around the globe continues to give us the regular opportunity to train with the world's top instructors right here in Australia at Beston Gracie Central.

Today marks 2 years since the first ever class of Beston Gracie Central. A big thanks to everyone who has supported us thus far.

We have come a very long way in the past 2 years with our second location opening in Newcastle, our growing roster of skilled coloured belts, our State Federation champions and medallists, the success of our Professional MMA fighters, and hosting seminars with some of the most elite names in Jiu Jitsu, and I look forward to continuing in the same direction for the future as well.

Everyone who has ever trained with us has been a part of our collective achievements, so thanks again to all.

Congratulations to Ryron Gracie and Rener Gracie who closed out their division of the 2005 Pan American No-Gi. Beston Gracie Central students who were lucky enough to attend the seminars (see BGC group photo on Gallery Page) with Prof. Ryron in 2003 will know what amazing techinque he has.

Congratulations to Roger Gracie and Kyra Gracie who both won their divisions at the 2005 ADCC World Submission Wrestling Championships. Roger Gracie also won the Absolute division and after winning all of his matches by submission was also awarded the coveted "Most Technical Award".

Students and friends in the region will be interested to check out the newly released 2005-2006 edition of the Central Coast Yellow Pages and Newcastle Yellow Pages that feature an advertisment for Beston Gracie Central.

A big congratulations from all your training partners and teammates to David "Black Belt" Moore who received his Blue Belt in Jiu Jitsu today. A long time student of our Central Coast academy and regular visitor to Newcastle, Dave is very deserving of his new rank. Also congratulations to all other students who received new stripes on their belts recently I will post a full listing of promotions in the near future.

With our rapidly expanding academies this competition team was our biggest representation to date with 8 students competing in the Gracie Team and bringing home a massive haul of 3 Gold, 1 Silver, and 1 Bronze Medals. The 2004 Nationals Champion Gracie Team also won the team trophy for the BJJ Challenge taking overall first place. Thanks to all our students as everyone played a part in the preparation of our athletes, and thanks to those who were there on the day to support the team.

Congratulations also to Beston Gracie Central students Michael Galvin and Dave Frendin who were both overall state champions for the 2004 season for their respective divisions.

Spectators were also treated to 2 Black Belt Super fights, with Brazilian Black Belts Guga and Pedro Galiza winning their matches.

Also in keeping with our aim of the continual progression of Jiu Jitsu for all Australians, GracieSeminars.com is now an official sponsor of the N.S.W. BJJ Federation, and our logo is featured on the shirts worn by all competitors and officials of the tournament.

Photos to come soon.

This Tuesday will be Matt Strata's last class before he heads back home to Indiana, USA. On behalf of all the team I'd like to wish Matt all the best for the future and say thanks for training with us as we all appreciated having such a technical training partner over the past few months.

Also well done to Matt on his performance at the BJJ Challenge in Sydney yesterday he was a credit to himself and his Instructors Prof. Mario Roberto and James Clingerman.

Now available through Beston Gracie Central Academy Director Angela Gracie are Beston Gracie Central T-shirts in all sizes and Kimono Patches.

Both products feature the stylish Beston Gracie Central Jiu Jitsu Logo - look for this logo on all products to ensure you are wearing authentic Beston-Gracie merchandise.

These will be the first in a long line of Beston Gracie Central products with Beanies, Sweaters, Kimonos, No-Gi Gear and other products coming soon, so make sure you get your first edition shirts and patches which will no doubt be collectors items in the future.

After talking with the Federation directors, I've just updated the Calendar page of our website with the new date of the next leg of the NSW BJJ Federation Circuit - 22nd May.

As well as restocking Kimonos in all sizes, Angela has just received a shipment of all Kid Peligro's Gracie books, so the very popular books like Royler Gracie's "Submission Grappling", and Carlson Gracie's "For Experts Only" are available again.

Also now available are 2 NEW BOOKS! - "Ultimate Fighting Techniques Vol 1." by Royce Gracie, and Jean Jaques Machado's second book "Championship Techniques".

Please talk to Angela if you're interested in taking a look at any of these:

Gracies in Action DVD's also availble from Angela:

As we continue to expand coming soon will be an online catalogue of all the GRACIE and BESTON products Angela has on offer.