It’s a family story that begins with a bet. Michel Ibiza challenges Clément: who, father or son, both brown belt judokas, will be the first to win the Grail for any practitioner, the famous black belt?
Both set to work with passion and ardour. After the technical examination, then the passage of a kata in front of a jury of experts (the son serving as his father’s partner) and many ippons in combat, the verdict is in!
Let’s not let the suspense last any longer: it was the son who tied the precious belt first, becoming last December the 147th black belt trained at the Central judo club in Béziers.
his name on the very long list of grades of the Biterrois club
As for Michel Ibiza, if he did not win the bet, he nevertheless did not lose everything. At 51, after having passed through the clubs of Peat, Murviel-lès-Béziers and Vendres, he has just put his name on the very long list of officers of the Biterrois club.
He will forever remain the 150th black belt trained on the tatamis of rue du Sergent-Bobillot. An event that was welcomed and celebrated as it should be in conviviality with the other judokas of the club.
