This weekend I refereed for my second time at the Ruckus in the Hills in house tournament at EDH BJJ. It was a very fun experience for me as a referee and as a spectator. At this tournament there were a lot of PeeWee competitors, which is something we did not have at all at the last event. It was great to see some of the PeeWee students getting their first competitive Jiu Jitsu experience and it looked like they all had a great time. My daughter is in the PeeWee class and competed at the tournament for her first time so it was really special for me to get to watch her go out there and play. All of the kids in that age group showed a great attitude and exceptional sportsmanship.

I was really impressed with the kids and juniors who competed. They all displayed good technique and fought hard in their matches. Those were my favorite matches to referee. The brackets were put together well and there were a lot of competitive matches that were fun to be a part of. I hope the in house experience inspires a lot of the students from these age groups to do some more tournaments, it would be awesome to go coach those kids at some bigger events.

There were not a lot of adult matches but the ones that we had were great. Even though it was an in-house tournament and the people competing were teammates there was definitely still a competition level of intensity in the matches. Everybody was working hard to finish with submissions which made the matches very exciting to watch. Overall it was a great tournament and I look forward to doing more of them!

Coach Danny