Insight BJJ (and Mario Esfiha – Brasa Austin) had huge success at NAGA Austin on August 15th, 2015. All of our competitors brought home medals, most of which were gold and silver! Final medal count for Insight

GOLD:
Coach Alex
Marty
James
Travis (x2)
Jake
Kascee
Brylee (x2)
Lauren

TOTAL: 10

Really great job to all competitors and to all of our training partners who helped us to prepare!

 

After 3 hard-fought matches, Coach Alex Henley takes gold at the IBJJF Houston Open.

Insight has been going strong for almost 6 months, and we’ve already outgrown our first space! The new year brought the need for a new, bigger space (in the same building)  so we can fit more grapplers comfortably on the mats. We also decided it was time to have our official grand opening. On January 17th, 2015 we did just that. With the support of Mario Esfiha, our brethren from his school (and several others), and our own  group of great students, we celebrated the grand opening with some great rolls and a couple of promotions.

Head instructor, Alex Henley, has both of his kids enrolled in the kids program at Insight. His 13 year old son Grayson has been training in BJJ for over 4 years, but was not up for promotion at this time. However, his 10 year old daughter, Genevieve, has been training for a year and was promoted to the rank of gray belt w/ white stripe!

Also, since our doors opened, we welcomed 3 stripe white belt, Gabriel Hansell, as one of our BJJ brothers. After nearly 6 months of very hard training, Gabriel earned his promotion to blue belt! Special thanks to our other instructor, Jackson Word, and Gabriel’s first instructor, Allen Lohr, who traveled all the way from California to be here for this occasion.