5 kids and 3 adults walk into a jiu jitsu tournament and turn heads with their ability to finish matches and score mad points. Nova Gyms had 2 kids and 2 Marquette University students competing for the first time at the March 1st Grappling Industries tournament at the North Side YMCA. While Nova Gyms is smaller than most gyms, our students come to every tournament with the skills and confidence to win gold. The 5 Nova Gyms kids placed second overall in the kids division, only losing by 2 points to a gym that had 3 times more competitors. Each kid scored top points with each match they competed in and only lost 4 out of 23 matches! Our 4 Marquette University team members placed 11 out of 37 in the adult division! Everyone was tired after this tournament, but ready to hit the mat again on Monday.

Everett and Palmer both received belt promotions at the tournament, which shows you how hard they train while at Nova Gyms and Coach Chris Martin couldn’t even wait until the next class to give them their new belts. Way to go Everett and Palmer.