We are now enrolling kids ages 3 to 12 and Teens to our Awesome Martial Arts Programs.
Here are the following Programs:
The Mighty Mites Jiu-Jitsu ages 3 – 5;
The PeeWee Program ages 6 – 8
and Juniors Program ages 9 – 12
Teens BJJ
For more information email us at sanpedrobjj@gmail.com or call us at (310)519-1024 to schedule your complimentary 1 on 1 class with one of our instructors.
We hope to see you on the mat.
Hello Familia!
On Thursday next week, Dec 6th 2018, we will be having our Christmas Belt Ceremony once again. Remember to wear your white gi.
Mighty Mites and PeeWee start at 4pm;
Juniors and Teens start at 4:45pm and
Adults start at 7pm.
We are also collecting the Toys for our Annual Charity, our Toy Drive for the kids at Los Angeles Children Hospital. We are accepting the donations of the toys until Dec 20th.
We hope to see you all there!
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This past Saturday, April 28th, our friend Cleber Luciano has hosted the 21st Copa Pacifica Tournament and like every year we take a team to represent our School and San Pedro. We want to say thank you for students for going out there and battling it out fiercely and leaving it all on the mat and also thank the parents for trusting us with the safety and well-being of their children on our Martial Arts Program.
The kids mostly had a rough patch this time and we took the tournament as a lesson learned. We all must train hard and stay focus daily in order to keep getting better. Although like every year we make champions this time was no different – Quinn Cook (8) scored 1st place on his very first tournament.
Thank you all again for showing up and fighting hard and showing an immense amount of heart. 
The funny thing is… the last post was about the In House Tournament, held here at our School, and this post now is also about the San Clemente In House Tournament, held at our “mothership” the Guillobel BJJ Academy. Once again San Pedro was well represented in San Clemente by 9 of our students. Our team scored 3 golds out of 4 divisions and we couldn’t be any prouder. Everyone fought hard regardless of the finishing results.
Thank you all that took your precious time, on a Saturday morning and battling on the mats of Sensei Guillobel’s Academy. You all looked great and I’m sure you came out of there a better person and athlete.
Special shout out to Eddie McKenna (Hey Day Fitness San Pedro), 31, for scoring 1st place in his division with only about a month of training. Great exciting matches!
Below a couple more pics from our awesome Saturday morning.
Final Score:
Eddie McKenna 1st place , Dylan Bruno 1st place , Erin Donnelly 1st place.
Jose Martinez 2nd place , Tobin Woodley 2nd place.
Biagia Nguyen 3rd place.
Stay tuned for our new post – Christmas Belt Ceremony Information.
On June 17th, our 8th Annual In House took place at our School and it was an awesome turn out. Every year we invite a couple different academies and gather on our mats for a friendly competition with the objective of exposing the students to the competition environment and experience, as well as testing their skills on a safe and controlled environment.
The competition started at 9am with the white belts and it was full of action and awesome matches. The highlight of the morning really was the women bracket made out of our students and they really put on the show. An awesome display of heart and technique. At 11am the Blue belts started and they took over the mats with more great matches.
Here some pictures of the action:
We would like to Thank all Schools that took part on our Annual In House Tournament. Guillobel BJJ Academy, Tinguinha BJJ Academy, Nino Schembri Academy, Gerson Sanginitto Academy, Caique Jiu-Jitsu, Hidden Hand Jiu-Jitsu, Gracie Academy, UFC Gym, Beverly Hills Jiu-Jitsu and Rodrigo Freitas BJJ Academy, Thank You so much for supporting our event, it was a pleasure to have you here with us and we are looking forward for next year.
More pics of the medalists:
We hope everyone had as much fun as we did and Thank you once again to all who participated.
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:45pm to 5:45pm the Mats at the Original Jiu-Jitsu Academy in San Pedro are on fire! A class full of positive energy, self-defense, coordination, discipline and other great stuff for your kids to learn the most effective form of Martial Arts known to man ( BJJ – Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ) while having fun, boosting their self-confidence and self-esteem. Call us now (310)519-1024 and inquire about our awesome Program.
New classes are being formed for beginners , so call now and reserve your kid’s spot.
This past weekend our friend Cleber Luciano and his wife Lili hosted for the 20th consecutive year the Copa PacÃfica of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Huntington Beach at Ocean View High School.
We want to congratulate all students, the ones that fought and represented our School flag and the rest of them for training hard and helping prepare their teammates.
On Saturday the 22nd, Jarry S. (14) took 1st place after defeating by 2 wins, in a best out of 3, against a green belt. Jarry had total domination on both matches and came out with the gold to bring back to San Pedro. On the podium Jarry stood by himself after his opponent refused to go get his 2nd place medal. Carlos L. (12) had a tough match and ended up with 2nd place.
On Sunday the 23rd was the adults white and blue belts turn to get their battles on. The first one on deck was Tobin Woodley on the Masters White belt Light weight division. Tobin took 1st place, had 3 matches and totally rolled them all up. First match cross collar choke from mount position, second match a beautiful 15 seconds arm bar from closed guard and final match won by lots of points and no points scored against.
Jose Martinez was the next one on deck, Maters White belt Middle weight division, and scored 2nd place by defeating the first opponent by guillotine choke and loosing the final on the sudden death. Erin Donnelly also took 2nd place in the Women Masters White belt Super Feather weight division.
Our Army Major Hal Shannon Howerton, Blue Belt heavy weight, scored 1st place after defeating both of his opponents and finishing the final match by Submission (Americana). Gary Mikaelian scored 3rd place via guillotine choke on the 3rd place bout for the Master II blue belt light weight division.
We also would like to thank Biagia Nguyen and Bryan Castillo for coming out and competing. The results were not how we expected but they fought their butt off and kept their head up.
Thank you all once again and stay tuned!
Congratulations to Dylan Bruno on his Blue Belt promotion. Dylan had been watching his boys, Odin and Damian, for several months from the sidelines at the kids classes and finally decided to join us in our Adult Program. Dylan was a great addition to the family and we are very happy to see the Bruno’s on their journey to black belt.
This post is also an invitation to all parents of our students to come and take a class with Sensei. Easy pace, learn at your speed kind of class. We hope to see you on the mat…
For more info about a trial class, ask at the front desk or give us a call at (310)519-1024 .
10 years of The Best Martial Arts in San Pedro, CA.
The Student Of The Year Awards in 2016 went to mom and son. We were proud to announce Erin Donnelly as the Adult BJJ Fundamentals Program Student Of The Year and Caden Kane as the Juniors BJJ Program Student Of The Year. These two are San Pedro Locals, phenomenal people and high level athletes.
Congratulations to mom and son for all the hard work and dedication to the School and Jiu-Jitsu.
And our Adult Advance BJJ Program Student Of The Year went to Clifton Teshima, our brown belt 2016 IBJJF NoGi World Champion. Clifton was the most active competitor of the Year and is an hell of a good person with true Samurai spirit and family values.
This coming week (12/19 to 12/24) is our last week of activities of 2016. The Toy-Drive due date for donations is 12/21, so if you haven’t done yours yet you still have time to help put a smile on son kid’s face.
On Saturday the 24th, we will have our traditional Christmas Open Mat at 10am. The gym will be close from 12/25 to 01/02/2017 when we resume normal classes schedule.
Stay tuned…
On November 5th, Saturday last week, Clifton Teshima our brown belt and one of our most active competitors, scored a big 1st place at The IBJJF Worlds NoGi Championship in San Francisco. Clifton had two real tough matches against two very tough opponents and beating the Brazilian National NoGi Champion in the Final match of the Masters division.
As Clifton came back home with the Gold his accomplishments weren’t done… He also has gotten promoted “Shodan” (Black Belt) in Judo from our second home Gardena Judo Club.
Congratulations, Clif!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go, buddy…
See you on the mat…
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