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Take your life to the next level this year. Joining and training at Gracie Barra Clearwater will help you achieve your goals in 2009.

• Lose weight and get in shape while learning the most effective martial art in the world. Running on treadmills and endlessly lifting weights gets boring fast. Stay motivated by keeping your mind engaged as you master martial arts techniques unlike anything you’ve seen before.
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• Gain a champion’s mindset by training under one of the best BJJ masters in the world. Courage, confidence, determination and dedication are defining traits of a BJJ champion. On your road to black belt you will cultivate these same virtues and find them spilling over into the rest of your life, helping you reach your goals, overcome obstacles and achieve whatever you desire.

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Gracie Barra Mission Statement
At the heart of the Gracie Barra Family’s extraordinary success over the years is our strong philosophy and mission as a group, a foundation which our masters laid many years ago, but is constantly made stronger by all of the great people involved in our community.
Jiu-Jitsu is a beautiful art, and we have a vision of how it should be taught, as well as how our community should work together for common, powerful, and positive goals. To achieve this vision, we must remember to come together as …

Some historians of Jiu-Jitsu say that the origins of “the gentle art” can be traced back to India, and was practiced by Buddhist Monks. Concerned with self-defense, these monks created techniques based upon principles of balance and leverage, and a system of manipulating the body in a manner where one could avoid relying upon strength or weapons. With the expansion of Buddhism, Jiu-Jitsu spread from Southwest Asia to China, finally arriving in Japan where it developed and gained further popularity.
In the last days of the 19th century, some Jiu-Jitsu masters …

Researchers in neuroscience and neuropsychology are finding strong evidence that learning new skills throughout your life (especially as you get older) prevents many of the mental problems associated with aging.

While the grappling in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu may not be as glamorous as the high flying kicks or one punch KO’s of other martial arts, it represents an unavoidable reality that you need to accept if you want to truly be able to fight and defend yourself. The flashy moves fall away in the heat of a real fight and the winner is rarely decided by a spectacular karate chop or Steve Seagal-style wristlock. In the real world, the victor is usually whoever is able to protect themselves while gaining control …

Many of the major problems with other martial arts doesn’t lie in their techniques but in their training methods—in how they train, not just what they train. A technique may make perfect sense and work “in theory” but be so dangerous or so difficult that there’s no way to practice it realistically. Traditionally, martial arts have tried to solve this by resorting to katas and forms (memorized patterns of movements), cooperative one and two-step sparring (“I do this, you do that, then I do this…”) or highly restricted or formalized …