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We will be packing our bags and heading off to Sao Paulo to compete in the IBJJF Brasileiros. Coach Nolan will attempt to become the 4th American to ever win the event! In order to do so, he will need to defeat many tough competitors including the IBJJFs #1 P4P athlete.

We will be closed Thursday May 1st – Monday May 5th as both Dan and Nolan will be at the event.

To follow Nolan, you may watch via a paid subscription at FloGrappling.com.

You may follow the live bracket results at BJJCompsystem.com. Both the “order of the fights” and the brackets update in real time. His opening round is on May 3rd and he will try and earn his way to the main event on May 4th.

You may also view real-time updates at Coach Dan’s website IBJJFRankings.com which include skill based ratings and statistics backed win probability superimposed on the bracket.

No class Saturday due to the IBJJF Orange County Spring International Open at CSUF. Come out and support your teammates!

Nolan Stuart has brought Brea Jiu-Jitsu our first major tournament title at the adult black belt level by winning IBJJF Pans Jiu-Jitsu Championship. The IBJJF Pans is a Grand Slam event and considered the 2nd most prestigious tournament in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Nolan’s victory was enabled by 12+ years of hard work which spanned through his entire adolescence into adulthood.

Prior to this year the last American male adult black belt to win a gold at Pans was in 2021. Including Nolan, have only been 14 Americans in history to have won Pan Championships since its inception in 1996. Of those 14, only 2 have won it in his weight category with Keenan Cornelius (2018) and Rafael Lovato (2007). Nolan is in an even more exclusive club by being coached by the same person and gym from day 1 to elite black belt. This is exceptionally rare in our sport with athletes of any nationality. Additionally, no American Pan Champion has ever been produced from a completely independent non affiliated/franchised gym like ours. He, and we as a gym, have broken molds and achieved success on our own terms.

Nolan is just 22 years old and this is the first of many great accomplishments sure to come in his career.

We will be CLOSED this Friday March 21 and Saturday March 22 due to IBJJF Pans in Florida.

There will be no class this Saturday, February 1st due to the IBJJF Orange County. Come out and support your teammates!

Due to Coach Dan and Coach Nolan going to the European Jiu-Jitsu Championship in Lisbon, Portugal, we will be closed Jan 22nd-Jan 25th. Good luck to Coach Nolan!

Thanksgiving week class sessions are NORMAL except Thursday. On Thursday we will only have a special adults class at 10AM.

Guests welcome.