Marcelo Garcia's Promotions
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Marcelo Garcia Academy does belt promotions twice a year. They're divided into two nights – white and blue belts on the first night, purple and brown the next.
The first night of the December 2019 promotions, us white and blue belts had a treat in that we got to be in the room for three surprise black belt promotions.
Tradition is: get a new belt, get thrown.
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