Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers in Pleasanton celebrated our Belt Promotion for Kids and Adults on Saturday, January 7th.

Thank you to all of the students and their families who came to the academy to watch those […]

We asked our team to share with us stories about the impact that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has had in their lives.  We received this story and were so inspired by it that we want to start this series of posts by […]

Dear Team:

We would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season and a bright start to 2012.

As we look back on 2011, the beginning of our third year operating as […]

Last weekend we wrote about all of the Team Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Champions from the US Open.  And this weekend, we are proud to announce all of our Team Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers MMA […]

The Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers Team and UFC-Gym Team had a very successful weekend at the US Open Jiu-Jitsu Tournament in San Jose (Bay Area).

First, we would like to congratulate every one of our team’s […]

Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers in Pleasanton is proud to announce our Level 1 Self Defense Series for Women. The crime-statistics indicate that in the next hour, somewhere in the United States, the following will happen: * 900 Thefts * 189 Violent Crimes * 124 Assaults * 66 Robberies * 24 Sexual Assaults * 12 Rapes * [...]

Yesterday, we opened our doors at Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers in Pleasanton to invite our local community to come in and sample all of our classes to celebrate our recent expansion which almost doubled the size of our academy, more than doubled the size of our training area/mats, addition of an MMA cage and the addition [...]

The Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers Team of Pleasanton (East Bay Area in Northern California) had a very successful weekend with their MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Fights. First, Congratulations to Alexander Crispim in his Submission Win this past weekend.  Crispim fought MMA for Shark Fights 18 in Sparks, Nevada against Randy Spence of the Cesar Gracie Team [...]

The Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers academy expansion is almost complete.  Thank you to the team for all of your patience during this past month.   We have increased our mat training area to approximately 3500 square feet, the cage will be installed and the heavy bag area will be doubled within the next few days, and [...]

This article appeared on Page B1 of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, July 3, 2011. Thank you Vittorio Tafur for writing such a great article about Oakland Raiders’ Marcel Reece and his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA training with Alexander Crispim of Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers in Pleasanton (east bay area). Click here to read the [...]

The Crispim BJJ Barra Brothers Team is excited to announce that four of our amateur MMA fighters will be fighting in a local event on July 23, 2011.   Rocktagon MMA’s Battle of the Bay will feature Joe “Nine Lives” Neal, who will be fighting for the 145lb belt.   Jared and Jordan Porter will both be fighting [...]

This past Saturday was truly an incredible day for Alexander Crispim and the Crispim BJJ Team of Pleasanton (East bay area).  We celebrated our Belt Promotion with Master Charles Gracie and his son Riury  Gracie.  We are so pleased that Charles Gracie was able to be with us to award our team members with their new [...]