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Black belt breakthrough

AFTER taking up jiu-jitsu a decade ago as a way to destress during her Year 12 studies, Natalie Von Wirtz-Matthews has been promoted to black belt – a first for the Swan Hill Jiu Jitsu gym. Von Wirtz-Matthews is now Swan Hill’s first female jiu-jitsu black belt, an honour that she has pushed through injury […]

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