05/11/2026
This past weekend, WI-MAFC hosted Professor Jared Winter Jessup of iQ Jiu-Jitsu for our quarterly BJJ seminar. Both the Kids and Adult sessions were awesome, with students and instructors demonstrating their strong discipline, technical proficiency, and enthusiasm for learning. All our Juniors and Little Scorpions received stripe promotions, as did several Adults. We also have some special belt promotions to celebrate for four of our adult Instructors and Assistant Instructors: 🔵Ms. Katie Brunner (white to blue), 🟣Mr. Jon Meade (blue to purple), 🟤Ms. Elyse Pierce (purple to brown), and 🟤Mr. Kevin Mancusi (purple to brown). These promotions represent years of hard work, dedication, and leadership, with hours and hours of mat time spent drilling, rolling, and teaching, and many more spent behind the scenes in service to the operation of the school. Please join us in congratulating these four on these important milestones!!! Finally, we wish to thank Professor Jessup and his wife Misty for making the long journey up to Madison, to Instructor Dean for organizing and hosting the event and for the superb year-round BJJ instruction he provides, and to all the parents and families who made seminar attendance possible for so many of our students in the middle of a very busy weekend. Thank you all and congratulations!!!
