Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Possibly the premier ground-fighting martial art. Made famous by Royce Gracie in the mid-1990's, it specializes in submission grappling when both fighters are on the ground. Techniques include positional control and submissions such as chokes and arm locks. In addition, the ground fighting strategy and techniques of Brazilian JuJitsu are among the most sophisticated in the world.
Belt ranks start at white and progress through blue, purple, brown and then black. It generally takes about 2-3 years of training multiple times per week to be promoted to the next belt rank, rank is about the ability to apply jujitsu techniques in a competitive match. A student generally needs to be able to reliably defeat most other students at a given rank in order to be promoted to the next rank.
Most training has students wearing a heavy jujitsu or judo gi, on a padded floor. A typical class involves 30 minutes of warm up and conditioning, 30 minutes of technique practice with a partner and then free sparring training against an opponent of equal skill who attempts to submit you.
 
Steve Bartley
Instructor

with Dave Meyer

Steve Sir began his martial arts training in traditional Taekwondo and hapkido in 1985. Steve Sir began studying Jujitsu in 1997 at the Ketto-Ryu Jujitsu Dojo in Edmonton. He received his black belt in 2002.

He has since been training with renowned Jujitsu Instructor David Meyer of San Francisco. Steve Sir has received a Blue belt from David Meyer and is a certified to teach a basic grappling program. Steve Sir teaches a blend of Hapkido, Japanese Jujitsu and Brazilian Jujitsu in his grappling program. He has also learned from Royce Gracie, Carlos Newton, Frank Shamrock and countless others.

Steve Sir is also a Martial arts educator (with more then 15 years of teaching experience!) and owns Elite Taekwondo in Edmonton.

Steve Sir is currently a 5th degree black belt, certified with the World Taekwondo Federation.
 
Henrique Stefani
Instructor - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Henrique was born in Brazil in the state of São Paulo. He has his degree in Animal Science, married, and has a wonderful daughter, all from Brazil.

Since 4 years old Henrique trained in many Martial arts, starting with Taekwondo, Karate, Muay-thai, Capoeira, Judô but in January 1995 he started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, found his true calling and never stopped.

.Henrique received his black-belt from Hemerson Navarro (Black-belt from Renato Tavares Team), taught in some academies in Brazil, in 2006 he taught in the USA and now brings Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to Elite Taekwondo.

We are very excited about having Henrique Sir join our team. There are only 2 other Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts in all of Alberta so we feel very fortunate to have Henrique at our school. Come on out and watch a class to see a Master at work