Friday night was kinda sad for us at GB Marbella, as it was the last night of instruction from our guest professor, Carlos Sapaõ Ban.

To close the month, Carlos gave a special workshop, beginning with some classic BJJ self defense techniques, and closing the night with a series (progression) of attacks and submissions beginning with [...]

I’ve got some very exciting news to report! We’re honored to have a new guest coach in town, Carlos “Sapaõ” Ban. Sapaõ, who’s a close friend of Edson and a Ralph Gracie black belt, will be spending the summer months with us here in Marbella, teaching BJJ, grappling and his specialty, [...]

Last week we said goodbye to Augusto “Tio Chico” Vieira, a close friend of Edson who visited us for two months as guest instructor.

During the months he was here, Tio Chico became a friend to us all, and taught us some amazing jiu-jitsu. To give you an idea just how good he is, consider [...]

Gracie-Barra Marbella had two participants in this past weekend’s Hemo Hold Submission Wrestling tournament in Sevilla, Spain, and the results were astounding!

Augusto Aloisio

Our Argentinean sensation Augusto Aloisio has quickly established himself as one of the top competitors in Spain. Ten fights in a day? Broken arm? The other guy weighs 105kg? No problemo — [...]

Hey everybody,

We’re happy to announce a seminar with Augusto “Tio Chico” in La Linea, on Saturday, 12 July. The time will be 10 AM to 1 PM. Bring both the kimono, and grappling clothes. Look to see you there!

Here’s a Google Maps link to the location:

Google Maps link to Seminar in La Linea

Hi everybody,

Platinum has re-opened their doors, and we’re once again training there, Monday, Wednesday and Friday’s at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. This month we have a special guest here: Tio Chico, who you all will remember came and gave us a great seminar earlier this summer, prior to heading off to the US to [...]

Our coach Edson Jorge is presently helping George St. Pierre train and improve his jiu-jitsu (in preparation for his upcoming UFC belt defense against Jon Fitch) at the Gracie Barra academy in Rio de Janeiro. Sweet! Edson should be back in town around late June.

As many of you have heard, our training location, Platinum Gym, are having some issues, and is temporarily closed. They have informed us that they are working hard to resolve the problems, and re-open the gym. In the meantime, we are temporarily training at Centro Plaza Gym, in Puerto Banus, near the Plaza de Toros.

The [...]

Just a short notice to all GB Marbella members: To get ready for the grappling tournaments in June and July, we will be training no-gi only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday starting next week (Monday, 21 April).

Para todos los alumnos de GB Marbella: Para preparar los torneos de grappling en Junio y Julio, vamos a [...]

Hey everybody, I didn’t have a chance yet to write up an article in English about our results at the Hemo Hold BJJ tournament in Sevilla last weekend. Here’s a quick summary (in Spanish) on the FightSol forums:

GB Marbella Hemo Hold Results (in Spanish)

Here’s some videos I recorded from the event (hopefully more coming soon):

Augusto’s [...]

Just a quick heads up everybody: We’re planning our 2nd Open Grappling tournament in Marbella, tentatively set for Saturday, July 26. Start training! We should have some big news to announce about it soon. Stay tuned!

The Gracie-Barra Andalucia team traveled to Lisbon, Portugal this past weekend to compete in the 2008 European Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships, and performed very well! Medal winners included Matt (gold, brown-belt, senior 1), Jose Antonio (bronze, brown-belt, master), Hans (bronze, blue-belt, adult), Aida (bronze, blue-belt adult) and 15 year-old (!!) Andres (silver, blue-belt, juvenile). In [...]

Big news everybody. BIG BIG BIG NEWS!

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, Rômulo Barral, is coming to Marbella, Spain to give a one-day seminar, on January 19, 2008.

The cost will be 50 Euros for Gracie-Barra Marbella students, and 100 Euros for everyone else. Registration/payment will happen on the day of the event. The seminar will take place [...]

Tonight we got a very special treat, as we welcomed Draculino to the Gracie-Barra Andalucia Marbella academy. It was a sort of homecoming as he joined us in class, reuniting with his two students (and our instructors) Edson Jorge and Marcelo Azevedo. In a very special class, Edson showed us a favorite shin-on-bicep guard sweep, [...]

So where are you likely to find four (FOUR!!!) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts in a single training class (not to mention three purple belts and a professional UK MMA fighter!)? Gracie-Barra Andalucia Marbella academy.

Tonight, on a typical Monday evening training session, I walked into the gym to find four BJJ black belts — Edson, Marcelo, [...]