Wasn’t she trying to teach with one of the Mail-in Gracie Combatives blue belts or was that someone else?
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That’s what the sister claimed.
My name is Emma Barber and I am a certified Gracie Jiu Jitsu instructor and owner (along with my parents and my sister Maycee) of Gracie Jiu Jitsu Fort Collins. In the past week we have been accused of wearing black belts while teaching GJJ and trying to deceive people into thinking that we are GJJ black belts. We are not. We are, in fact, GJJ University verified blue belt stripe 2’s and we wear them with pride. Anyone who has gone through the GU curriculum can vouch for the fact that a BBS2 is a legitimate blue belt.
Then I thought this was pretty funny:
Regarding the picture of Maycee on the ball in her black belt, yes we admit it was a mistake to take that picture in front of the Gracie Triangle. We had no intentions of deceiving anyone. We are sorry for the confusion and misunderstanding that occurred from that photo. As Rener said in the podcast, it was a poor choice in location for the picture and we apologize. However, assuming that we teach GJJ in our black belts based on that picture is ridiculous. Every other picture of us in our black belts was taken during a mixed martial arts class teaching a curriculum that is unique to our school.
Then she rounds it out with this:
Lastly, regarding the red bars on our black belts, that is the belt that our system uses to set apart instructor black belts from other black belts. In case anyone is wondering, there is no regulation on belt systems. No one is the “authority” in what system uses what belt. It is up to the school to decide what belts they choose to wear. We earned our black belts for this system. They were not just given to us. Again, look at the videos on our Facebook page. Our skills speak for themselves.
And in case you didn’t know that she’s completely full of shit:
So, please, before judging our character, skill, rank, and school as fraud, come check us out. No smoke and mirrors, just awesome Jiu Jitsu is what you will find.
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I can’t even hate, kinda wild she made it to the UFC. Pretty obvious they were trying to be deceptive with the belt confusion though.
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“Because we completely made it up”
Duh!
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Oh yeah, certainly so. It’s very much a case of being moderately attractive and faking your way into “success”.
I thought the last line was amazing. After claiming that they teach special MMA classes that uses gear that looks exactly like BJJ, you can come and take BJJ classes (their skills are so amazing as to be separate and sentient beings capable of speech) but not the super secret super special MMA classes with BJJ gear.
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Of course they are Gracie University reps lol
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May as well call it Gracie Amway
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Fake black belt?
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Whole story is posted in above
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Yep.
Imagine walking into a place in Colorado to learn BJJ and this is what you get. 2 chicks, no cup and a whole lot of confusion as your instructors.
You know you have some legit questions to ask about how reputable a BJJ place is when the person (girls in this instance) teaching the class doesnt refer to themselves as professor.
One of the members here went to check them out and they cowered behind locked doors and called the cops. They had challenged anyone to come and test their belts.
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That was the biggest win of Trap’s career.
Don’t diminish it.
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The UG is “The Authority”
when we believe someone we suspect has a Fake BB,
And we have some of the best detectives in the game, for finding the truth…
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That would be amazing. Can you help me out with a link? Do you remember the title of the thread?
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Evilgumby was the cats screen name, the thread was something like ‘I’m waiting outside of Gracie ft collins waiting for them to open’ if you search the BJJ forum for ft collins it will come up.
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Ok, will do. Thank you for your help.
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Was there a thread on this?
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Thanks bro
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