As I said in the previous video of our Talk series, Top Brother Pelotas is a reality and more alive than ever!
With that in mind, I need to introduce the people responsible for keeping our team growing and evolving now that I've moved to the city of Florianópolis.
Talk - Who are the instructors?
Technical quality
As I said in the previous video, our school has an organized class structure that helps give all our students more technical quality and, as a result, helps develop new assistant instructors and instructors.
The three instructors I mention below are the ones who took the front line right after I left Pelotas, which gives me great peace of mind, because they are three people I trust completely and who already have a lot of teaching experience.
Moysés Barbará
I met Moysés Barbará in 2005/2006 and we started training together; back then I was still a blue belt and he was a white belt. Over time I started teaching and he naturally became my student, and he helped me a lot over these many years of the team.
He is currently a brown belt, and the only reason he wasn't my first black belt is that he had an accident and was away for about 3 years. For organizational reasons, I made him the head instructor and he reports directly to me, especially since he was already doing this job alongside me while I was in Pelotas.
We talk every day to stay aligned and keep our whole team organized, and today he has the big task of maintaining and running our school.
Before the pandemic he was in charge of our branch in the Areal neighborhood.
Antonio Barão
Barão, as everyone on the team calls him, was the first black belt I promoted, and he truly has all the qualities and values I'd want a black belt promoted by me to have.
With a lot of teaching experience, Barão started teaching at one of our branches in Pelotas, and as soon as I started traveling to teach in Arroio Grande and Jaguarão, he embraced the cause with me and we made that long trip twice a week.
He then took over a class in the city of Capão do Leão and was recently teaching some classes at our main school in Pelotas.
Eduardo Peres
Doing a fantastic job with the kids in our children's class, instructor Eduardo Peres, better known as Dudu, started Jiu-Jitsu when he was just 10 years old. Now 23 and finishing his degree in Physical Education, he took over the evening class during the pandemic and is another student on the front line of our teaching staff.
I see Dudu as my son, and he is another guy I trust completely and who I'm sure will carry on the work in Pelotas.
Questions
In this article I gave a brief description of our school's current instructors, and I'm available to answer any other questions that come up.
I'd also like to invite everyone to come take a trial class at any of our schools.
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