So I just came across this picture from this past summer... late July I think it was. A group of us from the Renzo Gracie NH Jiu Jitsu team were invited down to train at the Renzo Gracie academy in NY City. We all made the trek down, and actually got to meet Renzo, and also be the FIRST people in the country to see his new movie coming out called "Renzo Gracie: Legacy". I actually got to watch the whole thing with Renzo only a few feet away - very cool experience. Amazing to see some of the fighters down there, and train in the very same ring as some of the biggest names in MMA today. We had group classes with Leo, Gorgino, and Gordo, and also had a private 1 hour session with Zed Gracie.

On the one hand I've never trained so hard in my life... on the other, I've also never been as sore, beaten, broken, and exhausted either. To top it all off, the academy is in the basement of a NY City business building, and even with fans and central air, the "normal" temperature during the training was 95+ degrees, and the digital humidity gauge on the wall never dipped below 100. Talk about air so thick you could literally "cut" it.

What an experience. Here's a picture of the NH team and Renzo.