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On Thursday, July 31st Rafael Lovato Jr will be hosting our first association wide seminar at the Colorado State Patrol in Golden, Colorado.  Two hours of the seminar will be instruction and the last will be training between the seminar attendees. We want to give one spot for the Six Blade and Lovato Associations to

We have crossed the 10 year mark of Jubera Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy being open in Broomfield, Colorado. As such we will be celebrating with a 2 day event on June 13th-14th. The open mats will be for current students only. Feel free to bring family and friends to the BBQ on Saturday. Very excited to

Congrats to Professor Tessa on winning the IBJJF Boston Open. She won all of her matches by submission with no points against. Here is her finals match where she shows some great open guard passing.

Eight of us headed down to Austin, Texas over April 18th-20th for training, coaching and fun. My instructor Xande Ribeiro competed at Who’s Number One 27 along with Six Blades athlete Victor Hugo. Xande was the biggest draw of the night and came out to chants of his name. It was an honor to be

IBJJF Pans Congrats to Marc on winning IBJJF Pans at the end of March in the purple belt division. Back to his winning ways after a surgery last year.  Easton Spring Open Results Then we sent a crew to the Easton Spring Open 2025 and came away with a bunch of wins and 6 gold,

The next tournament on our academy’s schedule will be the Easton Open. This event will take place on April 5, 2025 in Littleton, Colorado at the South Suburban complex.  Early Registration is $55 until 2/21/25Normal Registration is $65 until 3/28/25 Late Registration is $85 until 4/3/25 You can register for the tournament here: https://smoothcomp.com/en/event/22008 This was a

Just a few weeks after training at our academy here in Colorado. Xande Ribeiro traveled to Portugal to compete at the IBJJF European Championships. It was his first return to competition in a couple years and he put on a show. Submitting 4 out of his 5 opponents on way to gold, and two of

A perfect way to end the year training with my teacher Xande Ribeiro. It was awesome to have him out as he is preparing to enter the European Championships in January of 2025. Training with Xande always brings my Jiu-Jitsu back into focus on what is important. Seeing how he moves and counters so many

Saturday, October 12th we will be hosting 4x Black Belt World Champion Victor Hugo. Victor was the 2023 open weight world champion. He was the first person in over a decade to win his open weight finals match by submission. He is a no gi and gi world champion as well.  Here is his finals