Team from Gracie Humaita NC getting ready for Polar Bear Plunge. Photo: Rachel Robles
A team of students from Professor Armando Basulto’s GMA Gracie Humaita North Carolina helped raise money for local school programs by jumping into the icy waters of Lake Junaluska, NC on Feb. 1. The team from Basulto Academy of Defense was sponsored to take the icy plunge in order to raise money for the Haywood Waterways Association’s Kids in the Creek program.
Lake Junaluska and Haywood Waterways staff spent a lot of time on Friday breaking through several inches of ice near the beach so plungers would be able to jump in the 30-degree water on Saturday.
Check out more of what the Basulto Academy of Defense team gets into besides freezing cold water here: www.wncbjj.com
Justin Laille and Kevin Dinofa of Gracie Humaita NC in frozen Lake Junaluska. Photo: Jessie Stone