On September 11, 2024 Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy dedicated our self-defense class to knife/ edged weapon defenses. In honor of the losses that occurred on September 11, 2001 that all began with the hijacking of four commercial airliners with knives and box cutters. We also paid tribute to a few Americans of whom we are aware who have given or risked their lives to stop armed attacks involving mass violence- while unarmed. Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy strongly believes that Americans can best never forget 911 by being prepared and confident to stop mass violence in its tracks before injuries or loss of life of that magnitude ever occur again.Read more

Richard Bresler will always be in Gracie jiu jitsu history as Rorion Gracie’s first student in the United States. Bresler’s book takes the reader from the very early days of Rorion Gracie teaching Gracie jiu jitsu self-defense in various garages in the Los Angeles area, through the first early challenge matches, to the Ultimate Fighting Championships. Bresler’s book offers a candid, sugar coat free account of how Gracie worked to introduce jiu jitsu to a population that needed convincing that the Brazilian iteration of Japanese jiu jitsu was a martial force to be reckoned with. Gracie was eager to meet that challenge. Bresler tells the story of Gracie jiu jitsu through the lens of how he met Rorion Gracie at a time when his life was at a low. He was caught up in an unhealthy lifestyle, abusing drugs and spiraling downward. He reveals details of how challenge matches were...Read more

The Gracie family has showcased once again their expertise in understanding how the human body can and can’t move. The SafeWrap lateral control system is a culmination of tens of thousands of hours of high level jiu jitsu grappling experienced applied in an organized method of humane control of an uncooperative subject. SafeWrap challenges the wisdom of tradition methods of controlling uncooperative subjects by placing them prone onto the ground. SafeWrap emphasizes that pronation of a resisting person does not impose sufficient mechanical disadvantages to the resisting person to prevent attempts to resist and escape. Gracie further recognized that pronation provokes the fight/ flight response, increasing the the occurrence of amygdala fueled panic reactions. Thirdly, pronation places the face of a subject into the ground, complicating the ability of responders to communicate with the subject and calm tense situations non-violently. Lastly, a prone subject can easily hide their arms under...Read more

Lakewood Jiu Jitsu Academy has some exciting news! Beginning in September of 2024 we will become the only Gracie University Certified Training Center in Lakewood, Colorado. We will be the exclusive jiu jitsu dojo in Lakewood or downtown Denver to offer Gracie Combatives, Gracie Bullyproof, and the Gracie Master Cycle training. Beginning September 2024 we will solidify our class offerings to follow the proven structure of the Gracie University jiu jitsu training programs. Gracie Jiu Jitsu Combatives A student new to jiu jitsu has every reasonable expectation to first learn how to defend their own life in a violent street attack. Jiu jitsu is not a sport or a game. It is an art of close quarters combat that has defined combat efficiency for nearly 1000 years. Gracie Combatives is the fastest path to self-defense effectiveness for ANYONE. Gracie Combatives consists of 36 proven self-defense techniques that do not require...Read more

The Gracie Diet (video) is a principle of eating that focuses on avoiding consuming certain foods and combinations of foods that lead to acidic pH in the human body. The diet is based on the premise that an acidic pH in the body leads to vulnerability many illnesses and other preventable deterioration of the body over time. The Gracie Diet is based on the research and teachings of Grandmaster Carlos Gracie (1902-1994). Gracie’s conclusions about the importance of pH in diet are thought to have been initially influenced by the writings of Juan Esteve Dulin. Dulin was an early 20th century advocate of naturopathic medicine. The Gracie Diet advocates the planning of particular food combinations. A particular focus in planning these combinations is the avoidance of certain combinations (ex. never consume an acidic fruit with any other food, or never consume more than one source of carbohydrates in one meal)....Read more