Category Archives: General News

We will not hold our regularly scheduled classes on Thursday (11/23) and Friday (11/24) this week due to Thanksgiving, but will have a special 10AM class on those days. All other classes this week are normal.

There will be no kids 6-7PM class and no adults 7PM class. Juniors class and 5-6 kids class will take place as usual. Adults should check our private chat to see if there is a student led open mat during regularly scheduled class time.

We will be close August 31st and September 1st for the Masters World Championships/Jiu-Jitsu Con tournament in Las Vegas. Good luck to our competitors!

There will be no class (tomorrow) Saturday August 19th for the Jiu-Jitsu World League tournament in Anaheim.

We will be closed July 4th, but will be open for all other regularly scheduled classes.

This week Nolan Stuart was promoted to the rank of black belt!

Nolan has been with Brea Jiu-Jitsu since opening when he was 10 years old. He a graduate of our kids program, after school program and grew up on the blue mats. Nolan is Brea Jiu-Jitsu’s first completely home grown black belt and carries all of our gyms techniques, strategies and mindset at the highest level of BJJ.

Competitively he has many accomplishments that place him in the upper echelon of the sport. At brown belt he was IBJJF Pan Champion and IBJJF worlds silver medalist. He ends his run at brown belt ranked #2 in his weight class, trading wins in a pair of close matches with #1 in the finals of Pans/Worlds. He is the top ranking American grappler in his class – the next being ranked #17. Of all weight classes combined, he is the #2 ranked American prospect.

His main prior accomplishments were Pan Kids champion (yellow), Juv. World Champion (Blue), Pan Champion (Adult blue), American National Champion (Purple).

The future is bright!

Michelle earned two pieces of hardware by taking 2nd in her weight and open weight divisions at the biggest tournament in BJJ!

Congratulations to Nolan on his silver medal in the adult brown belt middle heavy division!