[Nate_Deezy]

Didn't know where this belonged, so I just decided to post it here. Mods can move it if you want.

So anyway I get home from work today and my brother says the class instructor called to make sure we were all coming to class tonight because there was going to be a black belt there tonight and it was the first night in the new facility. I go into class thinking that it's probably going to be Agnaldo, the black belt who is moving here from Brazil to teach at our academy who we have been waiting for for quite some time now. I get there, and the instructors say that's not the case, that it will be Marcos Barros, the black belt who teaches at Gracie Barra Springfield, IL and he will be accompanied by none other than Flavio Almeida!

Now I don't know if you guys are familiar with him, but Flavio got second place in this year's ADCC championships in the 77-87 kg category among numerous other titles, and is Ricardo Almeida's brother. I couldn't believe that I had the oppurtunity to train with such an amazingly talented grappler, and tonight was by far my favorite class I've ever been to. My friend Curtis (who some of you may remember from a video I posted a while back of one of his MMA fights) challenged him to a roll, and in 6 minutes was tapped out 8 times lol, so that gave us all a pretty good laugh.'

I was amazed with how humble he was, given that he was easily the best grappler to ever enter our gym, and he was very helpful and encouraging of every one of the students there tonight. Definitely a once in a lifetime experience and I was glad to have been there.