Photo: Daniel Carettoni.
The results are out for the fifteenth installment of the traditional California US Open tourney.
Click here to check out who dazzled on the mats at the tournament where Marcel “Mãozinha” Fortuna was the big winner of the absolute black belt division, and where other mat wizards worked their magic before of crowd of 1,600 spectators.
With his work done, Claudio França’s bags are packed to take some well deserved rest. “I’m heading to El Salvador for a surf trip in Central America. I’ve been planning this trip for a year now,” he says.
He mad the most of the conversation to announce and invite practitioners in California to his next event, the 4th American Cup, set for April 30 and May 1, 2011.
