This saturday, July 26th, the biggest martial arts event ever held in this town will take place at Gracie Barra Santa Barbara.

Rodrigo Clark, owner and headcoach of the local Gracie Barra school, spares no efforts to increase his students’ rhythm of learning.

The school will receive the visit of no one less than legendary Master Carlos Gracie Jr.

Master Carlos will enrich all of us with a 2 hour seminar! The event will also have the presence of several BJJ superstars: Marcio Feitosa, Flavio Almeida, Fabio Leopoldo, Marco Joca and, the Gracie Family “Golden Boy”, Kayron Gracie!

This is a great opportunity for everyone interested in learning more about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, healthy lifestyle and theGracie Barra Family Traditions!

Call (805) 259-9720 and reserve your spot today!

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Gracie Barra Santa Barbara put a Dream Team together to provide you with the best instruction available! Here is a brief description of the instructors that will be teaching the seminar on saturday, July 26th. Check this out!!!

Master Carlos Gracie Jr. is a man ahead of his time. Son of Grand Carlos Gracie Sr., he has used his unique visionary skills to create two of the worlds largest and most important Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Organizations: the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) and Gracie Barra. As founder and current Chairman of both institutions, he has channeled his entrepreneurship to take our sport to the next level allowing thousands of individuals across the five continents to experience the ‘Gentle Art’ as students, instructors, or competitors.

As an instructor for more then 30 years, Master Gracie has produced more well known instructors and athletes. Master Gracie divides his time between the United States and Brazil and, despite his enormous responsibilities, still finds time to teach classes every day either at GB America or the GB main school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Professor Marcio Feitosa is the head instructor of Gracie Barra America and of the GB main school in Brazil. With more then 15 years of teaching experience, he is a primary example of a man who is fully dedicating his life to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Gracie Barra and its members. Prof. Feitosa’s witty personality, enthusiasm, integrity, and leadership make the essence of GB America and touch all those around him. An outstanding competition background qualifies him as one of the best lightweight competitors on BJJ history. He collects many titles such as a 3-time World BJJ Champion and Abu-Dhabi Champion, Brazilian Nationals, Brazilian Team Tournament, and the Pan American Championships.

Professor Fabio Leopoldo is a 2nd degree black belt in jiu-jitsu. He has studied jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family since 1995 when he began training with Master Ryan Gracie in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He achieved his black belt in just five years of training. Over the last few years he has had the pleasure of studying under Masters Renzo Gracie, and Carlos Gracie Jr.(son of the founder of Gracie Jiu-jitsu). In addition to jiu-jitsu Fabio has also dedicated himself to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), training with the Gracie team, and traveling several times with them to Japan accompanying his teachers, Ryan and Renzo Gracie during many of their victories in the Pride Fighting Championships. Throughout his competitive jiu-jitsu career Fabio has earned many of the most prestigious titles the sport has to offer including being 3-time World Champion, 3-time Pan American Champion, 2-time Brazilian National Champion among many other titles. Also fighting in MMA Fabio has competed against some of the top fighters in his weight class from around the world in major events in the USA and Japan. In 2007 he fought on Renzo Gracie’s New York Pitbulls team in the IFL World Team Championships where they won the world title and became champions of the league.

Professor Flavio Almeida is a 2nd degree black belt and has been studying Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Master Carlos Gracie Jr. for more then 15 years. His BJJ journey begins at the age of 13, when he decided to go with his brother – Ricardo Almeida - for a trial class at the original Gracie Barra School, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Prof. Almeida has had the privilege of training with, and learning from, some of the best of Master Carlos Gracie Jr. students, like Master Renzo Gracie, Prof. Ricardo Almeida, and Prof. Marcio Feitosa. All of them played a key role on the development of his Jiu-Jitsu style.

Professor Flavio has won several national and international titles, such as: World Championship, PanAms, Brazilian Nationals, etc.

Professor Marco Joca has been teaching Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for over 16 years. Precision, focus, and determination are some elements of his personality that are easily noted on his classes and have immensely contributed to the success of our school. As a competitor he has achieved the titles of Worlds, Pan-American and Brazilian Nationals Championship. Prof. Joca dedicates most of his time to the Gracie Barra Wear so all of us can have our high quality official GB training Apparel.

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“Babalu” to step on the MMA arena once more 

On Saturday 19th our very Renato “Babalu” Sobral will step into the MMA arena once more on a great show called: Affliction Banned. Babalu will face the wrestler Mike Whitehead.

Affliction Banned will showcase this historic event July 19th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, with a stacked card of MMA megastars.

Lots of Gracie Barra members are going there to support Babalu, dont miss that opportunity to support our champ and to see some great fights. We will get together after the event to party at the grove in Anaheim. Everybody is invited, bring your friends and we will have a lot of fun!

Renato “Babalu” Sobral is not only a MMA World Class Fighter and a Gracie Barra Black Belt under Master Carlos Gracie Jr. but first and foremost he is a great Teammate. His attitude towards the School and his Teammates makes us very proud of having a Champ like him on the Team.

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Master Carlos Gracie Jr. in Santa Barbara

It’s confirmed!!! Master Carlos Gracie Jr., the biggest Jiu-Jitsu legend of our time, is going to be teaching a seminar in our school in Santa Barbara.

I would like to invite all my students and everybody else interested BJJ and in the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu lifestyle, for this huge seminar! This is the first time that Master Carlos Gracie will be visiting our school, and he is not coming alone! 5 x World Champion Marcio Feitosa, 2x World Champion Flavio Almeida, Gracie Barra Director Marco Piu-Piu are coming too! I still can’t believe that it’s true and you guys probably don’t have an idea of how rare this is! It’s unreal but it’s true!!! I can’t tell how excited I’m about this!

Do you guys know how lucky you are? So, don’t miss it!!! This is going to be the biggest BJJ event ever held in our academy and maybe in history! Honestly, this is unrealistic in every way! I never heard of a seminar like that. WE ARE VERY LUCKY!!!

So, save up some money and DON’T MISS THE CHANCE TO LEARN FROM THE SOURCE! It wont be another one like this!

Reserve your spot today!!!

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Time flies by and another belt ceremony in going to take place in our school. It feels like it was yesterday when I had the opportunity to promote my first student.

Five years later we have a much bigger group with lots of students working towards the same goal: Learn the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

I think it’s time to reward some of these students for all the effort and dedication that they have been putting into their training.

With that said, I would like to invite everyone to our belt ceremony, to take place on saturday, July 12, 11 am, at the Solvang school.

All students, friends and family are welcome!

The ceremony will be followed by a big party! After the students  get promoted, we will all celebrate together during our 1st. Gracie Barra Pool Party!!!

This event is open for everyone looking for fun, good food, music and a nice day around the pool!  Come have a great time with our team and enjoy the party with us!

Attention: Dress code will be enforced. Swimsuit is mandatory!!!

See everyone there!

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The party is over, but for those who were at the California State University Gymnasium last weekend, the memories are everlasting.

With the end of another World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, it is time to recover from defeat or rejoice in the good results from long months of training.

We would like to thank everyone who supported the Gracie Barra Family at the World Championship 2008. We brought home 3 trophies: Third place on the overall team results, first place on the white belts and second place on the females division.

 Gracie Barra Santa Barbara had 7 athletes representing the team and got 1 bronze medal. It was a great event and one more important step forward for the growth of our sport. We all had so much fun during the 4 days of competition that we are already looking forward to the Worlds No Gi Chapionship that will take place on August 9th and 10th. More info, visit www.ibjjf.org

Miguel Zepeda celebrating the bronze medal at the World Jiu Jitsu Championship

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Carlos Gracie Jr. receives red/black belt

Before the eyes of 50 black belts, cousin Rickson Gracie and a large number of other people who packed the new Gracie Barra America branch in Irvine, CA, master Carlos Gracie Jr. was promoted to the rank of red/black belt.

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This monday, May 26, Gracie Barra Santa Barbara will be open for it’s regular activities.

If you don’t have any plans for the holliday, come check us out! Have fun and break a sweat training with us.  See our schedule for the details.

See you on the mats!

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Last day to sign up with discount

Set to take place between the 5th and 8th of June, in the California State University Long Beach stadium, the 2008 Jiu-Jitsu World Championship is already taking shape. This is because the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) has already made a list available with those who have already signed up for the style’s biggest tournament on line.

It is worth noting that those to sign up before midnight tonight, May 18th, will pay only US$ 107. Now, or those to register between tomorrow (the 19th) and June 27th (deadline) will pay US$ 122.

To sign up for the worlds click on the link below:

https://ssl21.mysecureserver.com/register2competecom/register.asp

Click to watch the world BJJ championship trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5kSCvj7rU

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Roger Gracie didn’t even have to break a sweat the second MMA fight of his career. At the beginning of his combat against Yuki Kondo, this Sunday, May 18, in Tokyo, Japan, for Sengoku II, Gracie dominated his adversary and got to a rear-naked choke that granted him the win.

Click on the link below to see Roger Gracie in Action!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gqrv_rogers-2nd-mma-fight_sport

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