Black Belt Roger Gracie with Yasmine Wilson
Yasmine Wilson is the newest female Black Belt in UK. She trains under GMA Kev Capel, Roger Gracie in Buckinghamshire. Yas was promoted to Black Belt by Roger Gracie at an official opening ceremony last night.
This makes Yasmine the first Female to be promoted by the Legendary member of the Gracie Family and only the 4th female ever to be promoted to black belt in the UK.
Yasmine is also the current world champion and ranked no.1 in the world by the International Federation in the Brown Belt featherweight division.
Congratulations Yas! Thank you for inspiring many other women all around the world to train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and showing that all of them can also become a black belt like you.
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