We love all of our students whether they choose to compete outside the school or not. Our black belts Dylan and Jim view competition as a means of sharpening and validating their skills. You would not want the care of a doctor who does not regularly practice in the real world, they step on the national competition mats to improve and bring new ideas back to the school. Jim often says every competition adds a new skill. While they may not always win, they show up and give it their best. The IBJJF competition year is finished.
Jim finished 15th in Black Belt Master-5 among all competitors and is the 7th rated American.
Dylan has been a black belt since July 2019. He began un-ranked and has climbed to 431/1571 Adult Black Belt competitors. Lots of work to do, but among the top 27% of adult Black Belts in our sport. These are great accomplishments. This is what they are doing, the few days a month they don't teach. We may be the new kids on the block, but we encourage you to compare our rankings to those of the other Black Belts in the area.
Female GI Competitors
Naomi Balingcongan Adult White
Shelly Lopez Adult White
Kristin Macias Masters 2 White
Danielle Snipes Adult Blue
Austin Ard Adult Blue
Erica Eckland Adult Blue
Whitley Maloy Adult Blue
Male GI Competitors
Dylan Whyte Adult Black
Jim Whyte Masters 4 & 5 Black
Josh Harper Masters 1 Brown
Evan Whyte Adult Brown
Anthony Manuel Adult Blue
Chase Tyndall Masters 1 Blue
Mike Green Masters 1 Blue
Tyler Bannister Masters 1 Blue
Shawn Wright Adult & Masters 1 Purple
Greg Pitt Masters 2 Purple
Peter Fisher Adult White
Abraham Hall Masters 1 White
Charles Carven Masters 1 White
Rob Pryor Masters 1 White
Josh Poole Masters 1 White
Justin Kuhns Masters 2 White
Christopher Bradley Masters 2 White
NO GI
Anthony Manuel Adult Blue
Mike Green Masters 1 Blue
Juveniles
I don't see rankings for our Juvenile IBJJ competitors. And I promise to do better documenting our Non IBJJF competitions in 2020. I have more Picture than Names.
But from memory
Jessie Cooper
Tommy Chris
Logan Jaden
Charlie Stella
Jude Kealon
Henda Hasaun
Cacha Aaron
Dominic Hadley