I think the big question on everyone’s mind is: what happened to Top Brother Pelotas? Did I close my academy? What now?
You can relax, the champion factory hasn’t closed, and in this talk I explain how the team is organized now.
Talk - What happened to Top Brother Pelotas?
Rumors
As usual, some rumors popped up saying I had closed my academy before moving to Floripa, but that’s not true: Top Brother Pelotas is more alive than ever.
After so many years of work, I have students who have been trained with a lot of competence to carry on and restart the work anywhere. In fact, everyone who stepped up to the front line already has plenty of experience teaching classes.
Running the academy
It isn’t easy to just leave 12 years of history behind, and I also couldn’t leave it in the hands of just anyone, or someone who didn’t have the same passion and enthusiasm I have for my team, especially with a brand-new facility like the one I show in the article New Top Brother Pelotas.
Today, if there’s someone who breathes and lives the academy intensely and really wants to make things happen, it’s my great friend Leonardo Brisolara. We’ve been friends for many years, since we were kids going to parties together. For those who don’t know him, Leo, as everyone calls him, has been with me since the first days I started teaching, and for some years now he has been teaching Muay Thai classes at my academy. His work keeps growing every day, and there was certainly no one more dedicated and passionate about what he does to be in charge of the whole Top Brother Pelotas academy.
What about the Jiu-Jitsu? Is it over?
Of course not! As I said before, I left some students who were already teaching in charge of carrying on this work in Pelotas.
In my school I’ve always placed great value on technical quality. The way we work gives all our students a huge base of knowledge and, as a result, produces great instructors and coaches.
On top of that, I talk with our team’s whole coaching staff almost every day, aligning and defining the structure of our classes, and of course whenever possible I’ll be going to Pelotas to help out and see my friends again.
Positive results
I have no doubt that Top Brother Pelotas will keep producing great champions, as it always has. In 2010 I took some students to our team’s first world-level championship, and we came back with four medals, two of them gold!
The work goes on, and anyone who thought this story was going to end is very wrong!
Other questions?
In the next talk I’ll say a bit more about the instructors who stepped up to the front line of the Jiu-Jitsu!
If you still have any questions, leave them in the comments and I’ll answer everyone!
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