SELF-DEFENSE FOR EVERYONE
Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the martial art and combat sport that accommodates for all sizes, ages, and shapes. It's the sport where a smaller person can learn how to defend themselves against a larger adversary by using leverage, mental strategy and proper technique. Loved by children, adults, males and females alike - it's a sport that's inclusive, challenging and undeniably rewarding.
A hybrid of traditional Japanese jujutsu and judo, Jiu Jitsu equips you with stand-up manoeuvres and ground-fighting techniques, as well as a calm, composed and confident mindset to use both skill and strength to tackle any opponent.
A MARTIAL ART WITHOUT BORDERS
In the early 1900s in Brazil, Esai Maeda - the chief of a Japanese immigration colony - met and befriended Gastao Gracie. Maeda, a former jujutsu champion in Japan, taught the art to Gracie's son, Carlos. In 1925, Carlos and his four brothers launched the first Jiu-Jitsu school in Brazil. Helio, Carlos' younger brother, was small in stature and needed to adapt this newly-learned art to suit his frame. Years of training and adjustment led to a bounty of Jiu Jitsu techniques made for smaller competitors - and thus, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was born.
Decades later in the early 80s, Helio's son, Rorion, took Jiu Jitsu further abroad to the USA, where its popularity soared. There are now Jiu Jitsu schools scattered all over the world, one of them being Keystone Jiu Jitsu in Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.
The martial art and its philosophy have been widely respected since being taken around the world, so only one question remains...
Where will Jiu Jitsu take you?