This past week has seen a whole host of top brown belts making the jump to the highest levels of competition, starting off with a huge group promotion event at Dream Art where four of the top brown belt competitors got their final belt promotion. Lucas Gualberto made the jump, along with all three of the Munis brothers; Anderson, Alex, and Erich. Erich was actually the top-ranked pound-for-pound brown belt prior to the promotion. Shortly after that, 10th Planet’s Keith Krikorian received his black belt from Eddie Bravo.
It was then that the Mendes brothers, Rafael and Guilherme, promoted the first black belt to come from the Art Of Jiu Jitsu kid’s program, nineteen year-old Jessa Khan.