Vila Madalena · founded 1998
Gi and no-gi jiu-jitsu for adults and kids, taught by black belts who still train every session they teach.
Come and watch a classFour positions a month, taught on a rotation so you can start any week without missing the thread. Mondays and Wednesdays at 19:00, Saturdays at 10:00. R$220/mês, gi included for the first three months.
Split into 5–7, 8–11 and 12–15 so nobody trains with someone twice their size. Games first, technique second, and a hard rule that nothing learned here leaves the mat. R$180/mês.
By invitation, usually after your blue belt. Two extra sessions a week, a shared travel fund, and a coach in your corner at every tournament in the state. Included in any adult membership.
Professor Ítalo Vasques starts teaching four evenings a week on 40m² of borrowed mat.
Carla Menezes, who still teaches the Tuesday women-only class today.
300m² of mat, a proper changing room, and the kids program starts that September.
The academy promotes its fiftieth, and starts the travel fund for the competition team.
Adults, kids, teens, and a Sunday open mat anyone from any academy can drop into.
“I walked in at thirty-six with no athletic history whatsoever. Nobody smashed me, nobody made a thing of it, and three years later I am a blue belt who sleeps properly.”
“My daughter joined the 8–11 class because of bullying at school. What changed was not her armbar, it was how she stands.”
“Sunday open mat is the friendliest room in São Paulo. I train elsewhere and they still know my name.”
Turn up ten minutes early in a t-shirt and shorts. We lend you everything else.
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