All in all if was a good day for 10th planet Montreal.
We didn't have alot of guys fighting this tournament but all 3 of them came back home with a GOLD MEDAL
Raul Diaz, weighed-in at 135lbs and fought through the intermediate 150lbs division to with gold with two beautiful triangles out of 4 matches.
Mike Wadsworth, after barely a year's worth of training, stepped up to the intermediate division also, Submitted ALL THREE of his oponents to win the gold medal!!
Pat Beaudoin, 10th planet blue belt, fought a stacked purple belt only advanced division, got his arm popped in his first match, but rallied 3 wins with two submissions to steal the Advanced 170lbs division gold medal, with his half-broken arm. He then entered the Advanced absolute, WON THE DIVISION, and with that earned a free trip, all expenses payed to NOGI PAN-AMS IN NEW YORK THIS YEAR! We're really proud of his top notch performance.
Last fight of the day was Louis 'street' Ho superfight with long time Carlson gracie brown belt Tri Nguyen. Louis fought through injury (actually almost pulled out) and stuck into his 10 minute match after being thrown on his head in the first few minutes, Tri momentarely passed the guard and was up 7-0 for the throw and the pass, but Louis rallied with a classic Street Ho butterfly sweep with few minutes left in the match, he came close to passing the guard on multiple occasions fighting through the fatigue but his opponent was good enough at stalling or quickly recovering to keep him from getting any last minute points. This was one of the most exciting fights of the day, with over 100 people watching and cheering on. Louis is going to review the tapes and work on some little tweeks in his game to come back strong in his next outing. Final score was 7-2 for Tri after 10 minutes of hard faught almost-points and close sweeps.
His opponent had seen multiple videos of Louis' performances and it showed clearly he knew his game by heart. On our side Louis hadn't prepared for Tri's game because we couldn't get our hand on any footage. This fight video will be up soon. Stay tuned for official words from the man himself!
(Congrats again to Pat Beaudoin for his trip to the pan ams!)
We didn't have alot of guys fighting this tournament but all 3 of them came back home with a GOLD MEDAL
Raul Diaz, weighed-in at 135lbs and fought through the intermediate 150lbs division to with gold with two beautiful triangles out of 4 matches.
Mike Wadsworth, after barely a year's worth of training, stepped up to the intermediate division also, Submitted ALL THREE of his oponents to win the gold medal!!
Pat Beaudoin, 10th planet blue belt, fought a stacked purple belt only advanced division, got his arm popped in his first match, but rallied 3 wins with two submissions to steal the Advanced 170lbs division gold medal, with his half-broken arm. He then entered the Advanced absolute, WON THE DIVISION, and with that earned a free trip, all expenses payed to NOGI PAN-AMS IN NEW YORK THIS YEAR! We're really proud of his top notch performance.
Last fight of the day was Louis 'street' Ho superfight with long time Carlson gracie brown belt Tri Nguyen. Louis fought through injury (actually almost pulled out) and stuck into his 10 minute match after being thrown on his head in the first few minutes, Tri momentarely passed the guard and was up 7-0 for the throw and the pass, but Louis rallied with a classic Street Ho butterfly sweep with few minutes left in the match, he came close to passing the guard on multiple occasions fighting through the fatigue but his opponent was good enough at stalling or quickly recovering to keep him from getting any last minute points. This was one of the most exciting fights of the day, with over 100 people watching and cheering on. Louis is going to review the tapes and work on some little tweeks in his game to come back strong in his next outing. Final score was 7-2 for Tri after 10 minutes of hard faught almost-points and close sweeps.
His opponent had seen multiple videos of Louis' performances and it showed clearly he knew his game by heart. On our side Louis hadn't prepared for Tri's game because we couldn't get our hand on any footage. This fight video will be up soon. Stay tuned for official words from the man himself!
(Congrats again to Pat Beaudoin for his trip to the pan ams!)
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! To be fair I did wrestle in high school which helped a lot in the beginning.
