Gracie Barra San Clemente

Attention Students,

As usual, with the new season coming up, we are making little changes in our schedule to better serve the student’s and the school’s needs. The Summer schedule starts at (06/02/2008)

Here is a list of the changes:

1) The MMA Class will happen together with the No Gi Class on Tuesdays from 7.30pm to 8.30pm

2) Saturdays, the Fundamentals class will happen from 11 to 12pm instead of 10 to 11am. Since so many advanced students are also coming to it, the class will be now called All Levels. It means the curriculum and class structure will be exactly the same, but advanced students will be participating more often. Also, we are adding a 30 minutes Live Training Session from 12.00pm to 12.30pm. Live training is the famous sparring or Randori, it is a time where the students get to focus only on training starting from the knees and work towards submissions. It is really fun. By the way for a good definition of the term take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randori

To participate on the Live Training, the student needs to be at least a white belt 3 stripes.

3) Girls Class will start on June 28th from 10am to 11am. The 1st class will be a special event and students are allowed to bring their wifes, girlfriends, daughters, nieces, etc for free. Come to whach and help out!

4) Our Kids class will last now 50 minutes instead of 45. This means the kids class will finish at 5.50pm Mondays and Wednesdays and the Juniors Classes finish a 6.40pm.

If you have any suggestions please e-mail info@graciebarrasanclemente.com

Cheers!

GB San Clemente Team

“Organized like a team, fighting like a Family”

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Competition training for the World Championship 2008

Gracie Barra members from many different Schools are joining us at the competition classes. Its been a lot of fun and a great learning experience.

This morning we had almost 20 Gracie Barra Black Belts on the mats. Its amazing to watch them rolling!

Here is a group picture from the Black Blets taken after the competition class

George St-Pierre in Gracie Barra Rio
Ximu coments on Champion’s visit

Since great champions must keep on moving, UFC welterweight title holder Georges Saint-Pierre arrived in Brazil yesterday to refine his game. The Canadian will be making his first title defense, since recovering it from the hands of Matt Serra, against John Fitch, in August.
To continue to put on a show in the octagon, St Pierre’s Jiu-Jitsu instructor in Canada, Bruno Molenga (Gracie Barra) sent his student to Barra da Tijuca on an exchange in the Gracie Barra home base. The champion will stay in Brazil until the 10th of June and until then will practice MMA and do his physical conditioning with the fighter Gustavo Ximu, and complete his Jiu-Jitsu routine at night.

GRACIEMAG.com contacted Ximu, who today took the champion to practice boxing at the Nobre Arte boxing academy and got ready to have a first roll with Saint-Pierre at GB.

“He came to work on his Jiu-Jitsu. He arrived yesterday and I took him to Nobre Arte today. The guy is really humble and good people, besides being a really good fighter. We had only one technical training session led by Claudio Coelho and he liked it a lot. The guys there at the academy couldn’t even believe their eyes, as everyone there is a fan. I was also under the impression he was bigger. Not that he’s small, but he weighs 84kg and on tv he looks bigger. I’m going to take him to practice boxing, wrestling and do physical conditioning with me to keep him active, but the main thing is Jiu-Jitsu,” said Ximu.

Article featured on Graciemag.com

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Last Sunday, more then 60 people got together to train and have fun at Gracie Barra San Clemente. It was our II Conditioning for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) Class that should have happened at the beach but the weather didn’t allow. That was not a problem as students and professors engaged on a 2 hours training session that had all; kinds of people from world champions to little kids. At the end of the class, all the 7 Gracie Barra black belts were kind enough to train with the students! A special thanks goes to the GBSC Team that help to put everything together for this great event and for the Professors from the Gracie Barra School’s down south! Enjoy the pictures!!!!

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Gracie Barra UfC viewing party

We had a great time yesterday at the Gracie Barra UFC viewing party. It was nice to see members from different Gracie Barra Schools getting together as one big family. The fights were outstanding, Martini Blue’s was a great host and we would like to give special thanks to Professor Felipe Jerry and Assistant Instructor Jeff Weins for organizing this great event.

This is something we will do more often. These opportunities are something great to bring all the GB members even closer.

Gracie Barra: Organized like a team, fighting like a family!

Cool picture from the main event on the UFC 84: BJ Penn x Sean Sherk

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Attention Students!

 Gracie Barra San Clemente will be opened at the memorioal day. However, the schedule will change.

There will be no evening classes!

Kids Classes are Canceled!

Fundamentals Class from 10am to 11am!

Live Training (Sparring Session) from 11am to 11.30am!

Sunday there will be no class at the school as we will all be at the beach for the beach class. See you there!

 Cheeres!

GBSC Team

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Here are some great Pictures of Jacob and Joey getting promoted. These are two of our very committed students that build our kids Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program.

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Gracie Barra San Clemente is getting ready for its II Conditioning for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Beach Class, that will take place this upcoming Sunday 10 am at the San Clemente Pier. Students from all over OC and San Diego are coming to jois this great training session that is part of the Gracie Barra Team preparation for the World Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships 2008.

Check below the video from our first class:

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Guys!

This weekend we will all get together with students from other GB Schools in SoCal to watch the fights of the UFC. Find more information below. We will be living from SC so if you would like to car pool, talk to one of our team members at the school.

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This saturday, there will be a very interesting and innovative initiative going on: An Online Seminar from GB INstructors including: Master Carlos Gracie Jr., Prof. Marcio Feitosa, Prof. Marco Joca, Prof. Andre Fernandes, and Prof. Flavio Almeida. The project is a result of the efforts of several people committed to use high technilogy to bring top level brazilian jiu-jitsu instruction to the everyone!

If you are interested you can go to www.bjjmedia.com

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Starting this week, GB San Clemente will have a periodic Podcast bringing to the world news and facts from Gracie Barra San Clemente, GB, and BJJ in general. The Podcast is a result of the effort of two of our most committed students Mike Pesh and Dave Acosta and it is very interesting to see our routine through the eyes of our students. Anyone can listen to the Podcast at http://www.gbscpodcast.com/You can also subscribe to the Podcast on Itunes. 

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