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Want to see something amazing? Eric Ingram became the first quadraplegic in history to earn a blue belt in jiu-jitsu from the legendary Gracie family.
“I tried karate for a year but there’s too much stand-up technique and it just turned into me watching everyone else do it,” said Ingram, 20, a physics major at Old Dominion University. “With Gracie Combative it’s mainly groundwork and the other techniques [Ingram and his brother Troy] were able to adapt to meet my needs.”
Troy Ingram is a certified Gracie instructor.
To obtain his belt after more than a year of hard work, Ingram had to demonstrate on videotape that he could perform all 36 Gracie Combatives moves in a series of four tests and then run a fight simulation with his brother as partner.
You can watch the video below:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/11/eric-ingram-paraplegic-jiu-jitsu-gracie.html
“I tried karate for a year but there’s too much stand-up technique and it just turned into me watching everyone else do it,” said Ingram, 20, a physics major at Old Dominion University. “With Gracie Combative it’s mainly groundwork and the other techniques [Ingram and his brother Troy] were able to adapt to meet my needs.”
Troy Ingram is a certified Gracie instructor.
To obtain his belt after more than a year of hard work, Ingram had to demonstrate on videotape that he could perform all 36 Gracie Combatives moves in a series of four tests and then run a fight simulation with his brother as partner.
You can watch the video below:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/11/eric-ingram-paraplegic-jiu-jitsu-gracie.html
