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We are encouraging everyone to go hang out in our forum’s. Its going to be a cool place were we can all converse and meet our family members from all over the world!
Don’t be shy…See you in there!
Gracie Barra’s Video Channel
Some new promotions! Also, We would like to wish all out Junior champions good luck in the South Bay Tournamnet tomorrow.
Great work guys and girls! Its both a pleasure and an honor to have you all in the family. Keep up the progress!
Happy Bday Charlito from GB Santa Ana students, we appriciate your help at the school
Sorry for the delay!
The newest member of the Gracie Barra Family has arrived, baby Lydia Assunta Malachias, 8 pounds 3 ounces. Also as the sun shine our busy students find time to come and participate in the “Gentle Art” of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The kids class is packed with a record of thirty nine students, the fundamentals is brimming, but the advanced is just right! Helping take care of the tremendous class load is Professor Marcelo Brandao, teaching in Professor Pianos absence due to the baby. Professor Marcelo is a black belt under professor Marcio Feitosa, and helps teach every Tuesday and Thursday nights, kids through advanced. Come check out his variation on the great techniques Professor Ulpiano taught us.
Gracie Barra Santa Ana will be closed on Sunday July 4th, 2010 in observation of the holiday.
Keeping the legacy alive
GB Upland, Prof. Ana Laura & Rafael, would like to invite all students to come attend their first class, Monday 5 July @ 6PM, at their new facility in the city of Upland.
If you have further questions please call or email them at:
GB Upland
1235 W Foothill Blvd
Upland, CA 91786
909-900-6128 | info@gbupland.com
The Gracie Barra Instructors Program was created to ensure teaching quality, maintain teaching consistency, and open opportunity to future Instructors. The Gracie Barra Instructors Program is committed to supporting our instructors, schools owners, and students in their efforts to meet the growing demand for quality Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instruction.
Master Carlos Gracie Junior’s life’s work has been to create an institution that provides the highest level of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instruction in support to personal growth and the strengthening of families and communities. The scope of his work goes beyond the preparation of world class fighters or athletes and focuses fundamentally on building one’s character.
To be able to use Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as a tool to improve people’s lives, Master Gracie’s established a process of mentoring his students that became a trade mark of his teaching methods. Until 2005, this mentoring style of teaching BJJ was done informally through the use of verbal communication and emulation of Gracie’s methods by other GB Professors. When Gracie Barra’s first foreign Head Quarters was founded on that year in the City of Irvine, California - USA, the senior instructors of that location started a research process, led by Master Carlos Gracie Jr himself, to identify the core principles of teachings and, for the first time on the Gracie Barra history, to write it down creating a handbook.
The goal according to Master Gracie was to create a material that Gracie Barra Instructors all over the world could follow, making it possible that the “Gracie Barra Experience” was the same for students in the five continents.
We are making history by certifying GB Instructors on this material.
Keeping the legacy alive!
Hi Team,
We are proud to know that our Professors embrace the continuous improvement and growth concept stated on the #5 of our Instructors Code of Conduct. With the growth of Gracie Barra and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, there is a strong need for revision in the uniformity on our teaching practices at Gracie Barra Schools. To be able to accomplish that, we have the Gracie Barra Instructors Handbook with most of Master Carlos teaching methods and a sounding explanation of his teaching philosophy that will become the main reference to guide the way we run our classes.
We are also are having a Instructors Certification Process to certify instructors and recycle, making sure we are all in line with the principles and guidelines set by Master Carlos Gracie Jr. The certification process will be this Saturday at our HQ in Irvine!
It is nice to know that some of the most prestigious Professors from Gracie Barra are leading by example and meeting “Organized like a Team” for us to continue “… Fighting like a family!” and succeed on the journey to “Keep the GB legacy alive”.
Keep up the great job Professors!!
