August 24, 2008: PROFESSOR MARCIO FEITOSA - FIVE (5)-TIME WORLD CHAMPION IS NOW OUR NEW HEAD INSTRUCTOR, at Gracie Barra Countryside!

It is my distinct honor and pleasure to announce that Professor Marcio Feitosa, former head instructor at Gracie Barra America, CA, is now a HEAD INSTRUCTOR at GRACIE BARRA COUNTRYSIDE; and Professor Phillipe Della Monica has also joined our distinguished team of instructors at GB Countryside!

Congratulations Professors Feitosa and Della Monica, for becoming our newest instructors at GB Countryside!!! Our family at Countryside welcomes you with open arms and GRAT EXCITEMENT! Professor Feitosa will be teaching classes all week!

Thank you Professor Ortega for making this possible!!

      

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"Tio Chico" Returns - Visiting Instructor, Black Belt, Renzo Gracie
7/5 - 7/20 Phillipe Della Monica - Visiting Instructor, Black Belt, Gracie Barra America
             
   
5/23 Sandburg MS, Self Defense Seminar
5/19 Herget MS, Self Defense Series
5/5 Lemont HS , Self Defense Series
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Hinsdale Central HS, Ginastica Natural
3/20 Lemont HS, Ginastica Natural Series
2/19 York HS, Self Defense Series II
12/17 York HS, Self Defense Series (2007)
5/21 Hinsdale Central HS, Self Defense Series I (2007)
4/26 Fenwick HS, Self Defense Series (2007)
4/24 Fenton HS, Self Defense Series (2007)
6/17 Herget Middle School, Self Defense Series (2007)
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(Left) Professor Pablo X. Ortega (Owner and Head Instructor) with Master Carlos Gracie Jr. (Center) and Russ (Right). Students Brian and Oscar, practicing leg sweeps. Instructors Alex and Barry showing the class an attack. Master Marcio Feitosa with Professor Pablo Ortega during a seminar at our academy.
         
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Professor Ortega teaching Rocco (from our kids program) a rear choke. Women's Self Defense Class on Wednesday Nights (8pm Weds.) A female student demonstrating a choke on Professor Ortega during a Self Defense seminar for women.

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"At the heart of the Gracie Barra Family's extraordinary success over the years is our strong philosophy and mission as a group, a foundation which our masters laid many years ago, but is constantly being reinforced by the great people that make our community. Jiu-Jitsu is a beautiful art, and we have a vision of how it should be taught as a means for individual development going beyond the competitive realm. To achieve this vision, we must remember to come together as a family, always putting the team in front of individual. For that, we will fight to the end for what we believe is right".

~ Master Carlos Gracie Jr. (Founder)

  
     
6/28 Ginastica Natural Seminar: Master Alvaro Romano
6/21 Masters Carlos Gracie Jr. and Marcio Feitosa Seminar
5/3 Professor Augusto "Tio Chio" Vieira - Black Belt, Renzo Gracie
3/31 - 4/10 Professor Phillipe Della Monica - Black Belt, Gracie Barra America, Visiting Instructor
3/18 Women's College Self Defense - University of Illinois at Chicago
2/16 Master Alvaro Romano - Ginastica Natural
11/18 Professor Marcio Feitosa, Black Belt, Gracie Barra America (2007)
10/26 -11/23 University of Illinois at Chicago, Ultimate Physical Training and Self Defense (2007)