Gunnar a black belt under Renzo
Gunnar was awarded his black belt today by Renzo Gracie. On the Renzo Gracie Academy website Gunnar is said to demonstrate amazing ability in all areas of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and to be a caliber of grappler that the RGA is proud to have represent them. This has been a amazing ride for Gunnar who has only been doing BJJ for less than four years and had no grappling experience before that. Gunnar got his BJJ blue belt in April 2006 and purple belt in June 2007, both under Matt Thornton SBGi (with some great help by John Kavanagh and Karl Tanswell). Gunnar then got his BJJ brown belt under John Kavanagh (SBG Ireland) in June 2008. Shortly after that Gunnar went to New York to train at the Renzo Gracie Academy to advance his game further and now after training there for a almost a year he earns his black belt under Renzo. Gunnar's black belt follows his great run at the ADCC 2009 in Barcelona where he took 4th place in the absolute division.
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