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Teaching Methodology

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Experienced Mentor Coach
Benefit from personal attention and tailored instruction from Professor Tony Passos and our carefully vetted coaching team. They’ll share insights and strategies from over two decades of training, teaching, and coaching to guide you along your BJJ journey.
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Goal Setting and Strategy
Our instructors take the time to meet each student and learn their individual training goals. We work with you to identify your goals, set metrics, and offer accountability for you to achieve results that will spur your personal development and strengthen your Jiu Jitsu.
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Conceptual Teaching Methodology
Emphasizes concept over technique. Incorporating techniques with an understanding of body mechanics and principles of leverage and positioning. Techniques are thus tools to learn these mechanics of the body. By understanding how it works together with the technique, self defense skills are developed in a safe and effective manner.
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Structured Curriculum and Programs
Curriculum is designed in cycles that vary between 6 to 8 weeks to allow students to better understand the positions being taught and how to apply the mechanics they learn with the technique for a particular position. All teaching follows a three-step system approach.

Our Methodology

Get Mentorship, Personal Attention & Tailored Instruction

All from Professor Tony Passos and our carefully vetted coaching team. They give you personalized feedback and share insights and strategies from over two decades of training, teaching, and coaching to guide you along your BJJ journey. 

Easy to Follow Teachings & Methodology 

Our programs emphasize concept over technique. All by combining the understanding of body mechanics and principles of leverage and positioning. Techniques are tools to learn the mechanics of the body, and by understanding how it works together with the technique, your self-defense skills will develop in a safe and effective manner. 

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Achieve Your Goals & Get Results 

Our instructors take the time to learn about you. We work with you to identify your unique goals, needs, set metrics, and offer accountability for you to achieve results that will propel your personal development and strengthen your Jiu-Jitsu. 

100% Practical & Effective Structured Curriculum & Programs 

Our curriculum is designed in cycles that vary between 6 to 8 weeks. This allows you to better understand the positions being taught and how to apply the mechanics you learn with the technique for a particular position. All teachings follow a three-step system approach that’s been tried, true and proven to work in helping thousands of our other students effectively learn BJJ and boost their personal growth.

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