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TEAM BALANCE NY (Thornwood) comes of age! PDF Print E-mail
Steve Kardian and Phil Migliarese promoted more than 25 students at TEAM BALANCE NY (Thornwood) on Saturday June 6th, 2009. Team Balance members, friends and family came from NY, NJ, Ct, PA and VT to be present for the promotions. Tony Gioffre, Saheem Granados and Mike Wacker all received the prestigious Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt. Tony, Saheem and Mike are all 10+ year practitioners of the art, a great inspiration to all and excellent instructors.

 

Ryan (Freddie) Clark, Joe Gecaj, John Antonucci, Charles Lundy and Brandon Adames were promoted to Brown belt. Danny Merusi and Mike DeBiase were promoted to Purple belt. DeBiase is Thornwood’s first student to be promoted to Purple belt in less than 2 years. Joe Sansone, Mike Karsy and Alex Brechner were promoted to Blue belt.

 

A huge thank you to Black Belts Phil Migliarese, Justin Garcia, Rich Komar, The Jungle Gym, Renzo students and others that showed up to support those promoted.

 

Click on read more for a complete list of all the promotions.

 

One of the first Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academies on the east-coast, established in 1994, now has promoted 6 Black belts, more than a dozen current Brown belts and a ton of talented purple and blue belts. In addition to the belt promotions a number of belt stripes were given out. Congratulations to all! 

 Brown belt stripes

 Joe Grace - 4th stripe

Jules Puglesi – 4th stripe *

Jay Pagon - 3rd stripe *

Joe Pecorero – 1st stripe*

Dave Karchmer – 1st stripe

Tony Riviezzo – 1st stripe 

 

Blue belt stripes 

Dave Curtis

Dean Curtis

Luis Noble

Erol Dalpiaz

Frank Cumiskey

Mick Maniello *

Tom Bastardi

Brian Solomon *

Tim Grassso

Max Garcia

Alan Pickover 

 

*Unable to attend promotion – stripe to be awarded at next class attended