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Power is back at the Glastonbury location. Friday night we begin our normal schedule. In Glastonbury we are starting training with gi on Saturday mornings, and Tuesday nights. Fridays will remain no gi (actually when winter comes you can wear the gi on Friday nights if you like). For those that have no power still or have had to endure [...]

Join us on August 23rd at 7:30 pm in West Hartford. We will be doing a special seminar open to all of our members and their friends who are interested in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. If you are a beginner, intermediate or even an advance student, don’t miss out. We will cover some of the basic techniques, self defense and concepts [...]

Don’t forget the seminars/tournament tomorrow. First seminar is early, 8 a.m. second is at 10:30 a.m. wearing gi for seminars is recomended, wear gi or no gi for tourney. Tourney starts at 1 p.m. Be a good uke when you train. Found a great video showing Royce’s brother doing a demo with a young yellow belt that illustrates being a [...]

Why good uke? The more I learn about Gracie Jiu Jitsu, the more I understand why I need to be a good uke. I find myself telling students frequently, “you need to be a good uke”. How can I be a good uke, if I don’t know what uke is? Essentially for our purposes we’ll say uke is a training [...]

It was an awesome class in West Hartford on Tuesday. We were excited to have Kirkor and Julian visit us from their Norwich location. We had great time helping Julian get ready for his MMA fight in July. They are great guys, a lot of fun and really good at Jiu Jitsu. It is no surprise because they both received [...]

Have you always wanted to learn Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, but have been to lazy to try, then there is no hope for you. Not even kidding! This invitation is only for the motivated students. Come in to anyone of our locations and try out a class. You might actually like it. On top of learning great self defense and getting [...]

Muay Thai Kickboxing: Mondays and Wednesdays 7 to 8pm; Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: Mondays and Wednesdays 8 to 9:30pm; Open Mat: Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30 to 10pm, and Fridays 7 to 8pm

Jim, and Paul Bratslavsky will be team teaching on Thursday, June 2nd in West Hartford. It will be great class, we will focus on basic, Royce Gracie Jiu Jitsu self defense and fight strategy.

Royce Gracie brown belt, Joe Pascucci taught another great high level class this morning. The regular Sunday morning class seems to have become the choice class for a small number of highly skilled practitioners. Thanks to the efforts of 3 high blue belts, and three purple belts, this morning’s class was somewhere in between a private and a clinic in [...]

In the world of martial arts, practitioners strive to complete and strengthen their fight games. Head Instructors Royce and Rodrigo, and certainly the Gracie family, have proven time and time again that one must have a strong ground game to prevail in either self defense or M.M.A. situations. Constant evolution of the fight game and the growing popularity of the [...]