We will teach you effective ways (Gracie Jiu-Jitsu) to avoid conflict; more importantly, we will also teach you what to do if all your avoidance efforts don't work and you actually have to physically defend yourself. Finally, we will teach you what to do after you have survived a physical confrontation.

Our business is to analyze violence and develop strategies that will help our students get the job of protecting themselves done properly.  We constantly look for and try out new ideas that work in self-defense regardless of your sex, size, strength, athletic ability, or age.  When we stumble upon something that works, we study it and add it to our arsenal--Gracie Combatives, Gracie Bullyproof, The Master Cycle, Women Self-Defense, Law-Enforcement and Military training.

We know that no technique is 100% effective every time for every person in every situation--we will teach you to prevail with the options that have worked for The Gracie Family and for our Head Instructor on the battlefield and in real death or life situations all over the world.

Our main inspiration is the refined traditional Japanese  Ju-Jutsu Concepts, strategies, and techniques introduced to Helio Gracie by his brother Carlos. Gracie Jiu-Jitsu as taught by Helio Gracie and his descendants has withstood the test of time and is still standing at AuthenticBJJ in Parker, Colorado.