Last weekend was the 2014 Gracie Regionals at the San Jose expo center. Put on by Rose Gracie, daughter of UFC founder Rorion Graice, the Gracie regionals are unlike most tournaments in that they follow a submission only format. Staying true to the roots of Gracie Jiu Jitsu, each match is 15 minutes long submission […]
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All star tournament
On June 28th & 29th, the Kaiser Permanente arena held the 3rd annual All Star Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tournament. Presented by Claudio Franca, the All Star Tournament brings in competitors from all around the Bay Area. The All Star Tournament is held in a two day, gi and no-gi format which follows the IBJJF rule […]
2014 World Jiu Jitsu Championships
After a very hard 2 week camp Vitor Paschoal, Yuri Simoes, Samir Chantre, Osvaldo “Queixinho, Manny Diaz, Kristina Barlan Bruno Celio, James, Benji Silva, Ryan Walsh, Kaniela Kahuanui, Mirko, Aaron Neuman, Ryan Lee, Andrew, Jyn Romualdez, Anthony Cruz, and Samya De Paula headed down to Long Beach to compete in the 2014 world Jiu Jitsu […]
IBJJF Vegas Open
This past weekend the Institute of Martial Arts took down a small team to Sin City to compete in the 2014 Vegas Open. In the black belt division, Vitor Pashoal and Milton Bastos fought hard but came up a little short taken home the bronze. Also in the black belt division Quexinho took home second […]
Milton Bastos
The Institute of Martial Arts is pleased to announce that Milton Bastos will be the head instructor of the Children’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Program. Milton has been teaching the kids BJJ classes and assisting with kids MMA for a few months while Flavio was focusing on Krav. Now that Flavio’s has accepted the role of […]
7th Annual American Cup
This weekend was awesome! It was the 7th annual American Cup and as a team we managed to take home 1st place in the adult division, 2nd place in the masters and 2nd in Juvenile division. We took first in EVERY absolute from Juvenile through black belt proving once again that Technique Conquers All! I’d like […]
