Garry St Leger Sweep the Leg

In the movie “Forrest Gump”, one of the many iconic phrases uttered was “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”. That about sums up my experience when I traveled to NYC and visited the iconic Renzo Gracie Academy.

Whenever I travel to the NYC area, I try to always make it a point to swing through to visit Renzo’s. Every time I’ve been there, I’m greeted with smiles, great technique, and those same great techniques are commonly applied on me. However, this particular trip was what I would consider as something along the lines of a perfect storm. On this particular trip, I got to reconnect with my “twin brother” Peter Lawson (Renzo Gracie Black Belt. Note the resemblance) who not only orchestrated

a meeting with the man himself, Renzo Gracie, but also arranged for me to meet up and do some work with the occasional instructor at the academy, Brian Glick (Renzo and Danaher Black Belt), as well as former National Judo team member and alternate to the 2008 Beijing U.S. Olympic team, Garry St. Leger.