If you want to learn real self defense sign up at any grappling school but here, people don't do real training it is all fake. It is like karate katas, they don't spar just do self defense techniques that don't work. The gym is big and the instructors never competed or achieve anything besides paying big bucks to the Gracie family to use their name on the window.\r
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If you want to compete, get in shape and learn real self defense this is not the place to train, besides having a business degree in business ,Mr.Valente is great at marketing his academy. \r
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I am a business man and I have no desire to compete, but I want to get in shape and I hate katas. My experience there was horrible.\r
Pros: great facility,
Cons: instruction and the instructors are a joke, go get a real black belt
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