Instructors

Such a fantastic school with wonderful instructors! Really great structure and discipline for a variety of high energy kid personalities. Highly recommended.

Jeff is a knowledgable instructor that has a passion for the way Jiu Jitsu and martial arts should be practiced. Fun, clean and friendly environment! I'm making Central Coast Jiu Jitsu the place to train when in SLO county. Give it a try you won't be disappointed!

If learning badass martial arts in a safe, supportive, intelligent environment and creating connection and community with new brothers and sisters sounds good to you, I can’t recommend Central Coast Jiu-jitsu Academy enough.

I found Coach Jeff and Central Coast Jiu-Jitsu Academy through his connection with the Gracie family, who are at the cutting edge of jiu-jitsu- using ancient techniques, combining them with battle-proven real world concepts in which a bigger, stronger person can be defeated by a smaller, weaker person. In addition, distinct from any other local Jiu-jitsu group, Coach Jeff teaches Gracie Combative self-defense techniques and educates us in “hidden Jiu-jitsu”- subtle concepts that have been only recently released by Rickson Gracie himself. This type of Jiu-jitsu is taught to special groups of law-enforcement and military personnel due to its extreme effectiveness.

...but none of that is why I joined Central Coast Jiu-Jitsu Academy.

I had previously tried jujitsu at another local group and found that the daily teaching routine was random and non-sequential, two concepts that as a lifelong learner, I knew were not optimal for knowledge retention. As a brand new white belt, one day we would be practicing complicated maneuvers that I had no understanding of and then the next moment we would be practicing a very simple technique. But we never seemed to circle back and review what we had learned so it felt like a mishmash conveyor belt of techniques never put together in any organized way. In addition, we were encouraged to roll, meaning wrestle or spar, with each other from day one, and I got hurt after about two months. There was quite a bit of ego and machismo felt in the gym. I’m not saying the way this group operated was wrong, from my understanding it’s a fairly standard way to operate a jujitsu gym- it’s just that it didn’t work for me as a middle-aged person averse to injury.

Central coast jujitsu Academy, on the other hand, offers up a welcoming, personable, supportive and non-ego-based, as well as highly systematized method of passing along techniques and concepts starting with the basics and proceeding through to more and more advanced techniques. There is time for review and the spacing of techniques is set up for very fast learning and very deep understanding of the concepts involved.

I know I’m not the only one who feels lucky to be a part of this group. As we all go down this fascinating path of jujitsu together, we feel more and more like a close team or a squad, and this connection with my fellow practitioners is just as important to me as the awesomeness of the techniques that we are learning.