In 1988, a young boy named Paulo Guillobel was fed up with being harassed by bullies at school and decided to join a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school. He found Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (which in Brazil we call Jiu-Jitsu) through one of his ...
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Voted Best Martial Arts School In San Clemente Since 2014 Once again, Guillobel Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy got voted the best martial arts school in San Clemente. Every year, the San Clemente Times polled all its readers to vote for their ...
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10 Mental Benefits From Training Brazilian Jiu-jitsu If you think Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) will ONLY give you more confidence, physical fitness, and self-defense skills, think twice. There is one thing that people overlook about jiu-jitsu training, which is the mental ...
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On a Tuesday afternoon, we got a call from a reporter from the San Clemente Times. I, Sensei Paulo Guillobel, was teaching my classes, so Esteban, our Program Director answered the phone. The reporter congratulated us for winning an award ...
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On October 24th, 2020, Guillobel Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu San Clemente held a rank promotion event where some of our black belts were promoted to their next rank. At this event, Sensei Saulo Ribeiro, founder of the Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu Association and IBJJF ...
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Sometimes people may question whether Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu works for self-defense. They see two people rolling on the ground and wonder what happened to punches and kicks? It usually happens when they only see the ground training, which is just a ...
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The Team Guillobel Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu San Clemente has been pretty busy lately. In August, Sensei Guillobel and some of the Guillobel Team members were invited by one of the San Clemente Youth League Football coaches, Chris Culbertson, to share some ...
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At Guillobel Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu San Clemente, the rank promotion has more benefits than meets the eye. Usually, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Schools promote their student in recognition of their hard work and their improvement. They get their new ranks randomly when the head ...
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If you practice martial arts in San Clemente or in any other martial arts school in the world, competing (with proper guidance) can extremely amplify some of your important life skills. It’s a unanimous opinion among martial arts instructors that when students compete, they improve ...
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Many parents are trying to find the best martial arts for their 4-year-old child or even find out if they should be starting martial arts at all. So, with a variety of different opinions out there, how can you know ...
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