Gracie Barra San Diego

On June 3, at 8:00 pm, we will celebrate Master Carlos Gracie Jr.’s commendation of his red and black belt. 

We will be honoring Master Carlos Gracie Jr.’s prestigious promotion due to his lifelong devotion to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

The Gracie Barra Family is invited to celebrate this special moment.

Gracie Barra Encinitas will have its normal schedule on Tuesday night, with the beginner class from 07:00 to 08:00 pm. 

Please join us at the Irvine location to share in this special moment with the founder of the Gracie Barra.

See you there!

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“Organized like a team, fighting like a family.”

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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.

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Some of Gracie Barra Encinitas students were promoted yesterday night. Keep the great work guys!!

Here are some pictures:

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Profs. Rafael and Nelson are on the last issue of Gracie Magazine. They put a nice week training program of hook guard with a hand on the collar.

Check out some pictures:

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Gracie Barra Encinitas will be closed during Memorial Day (05/26/08), the normal schedule will resume on Tuesday (05/27/08).

Have  a great holiday and see you on the mats!!!

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The kids program at Gracie Barra Encinitas is going great!!! And all that is possible because of the help that we are getting from the great Team of Assistant Instructors that we have.

Thanks to: Matt Smith, Kia Afsahi, Duane Dwyer, Kevin Brown, Brent Dils, Danielle Martin, Brian Franklin, without you guys it wouldn’t be the same, we really appreciate.

Here are some nice pictures of the last kids class.

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Gracie Barra Encinitas had another great conditioning class at the beach. Prof. Nelson put us through a great cardio session.

Great job guys, let’s keep working hard together!!!

Here is a picture of the cool down , after the practice

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