On February 22, Professor Pedro Valente visited our home in Puerto Rico for the first time. Study group leader Jose Mendizabal and the entire group are doing a tremendous job.
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On January 18th, Professor Pedro visited VB Black Belt Guy Scruderi in his beautiful school in Jupiter, Florida.
On January 4th, Professor Gui returned to the VB Study Group in Veesp, Netherlands led by Eric van Looijen for the annual Valente Brothers Seminar. Professor Gui taught two specialization seminars, focusing on headlock defenses and the closed guard.
Congratulations to all new blue, purple, brown and black belts.
“A black belt is a white belt that never quit”.
Thank you for another great year at Valente Brothers.
Professor Gui Valente visited our Valente Brothers study group in Sheffield/Chesterfield, England once more.
Professor Pedro Valente visited the Columbia Self Defense School in South Carolina and taught adult and youth seminars.
The Self-defense challenge was very successful and brought together VB students who demonstrated great technical skills. The finalists are: Jessie Worbington, Tony Andre, Emanuella Grabarnick, Jason Propsom, Daniel Levin and Harrison Rosenthal.
This past month Valente Brothers hosted the first ever 753 Code conference. Topics that were covered included the history and definition of the 753 Code, conflict de-escalation, self-defense law, active shooter drills, a scientific explanation of why we need sugars, fruits as medicine, weapon retention and the importance of stretching.
The Ashi Waza workshop was a success. Professors Ramon Sanchez and Pedro Valente focused on the Deashi Barai and the Kouchi Gari techniques.
In 1999, Valente Brothers first offered the famous and original Fundamentals 27 Lessons, today known as Fighting Foundations. At the time, Professor Pedro Valente decided to pioneer the development of a curriculum for group classes.
Grandmaster Hélio Gracie, who visited Valente Brothers more than once a year from 1997 until 2007, always felt that the group class format, developed in the 1970s primarily to prepare students for point tournaments, did not did not effectively transmit his system. At this time, Grandmaster Hélio often stated that students could only learn the complete self-defense program through private classes. With the organization and development of the Fighting Foundations he changed his mind. After testing and approving the program, he began to recommend it to all schools associated with him and often participated in Fighting Foundations Lessons when visiting Miami.
In the last fifteen years, inspired by the Fighting Foundations, many schools began to implement standardized curriculums in their group classes. Through the development of an organized and efficient methodology called the VB method, we have assisted in the success of many schools around the world. Currently all VB schools, affiliates and study groups continue to offer Fighting Foundations, which has already reached its fifth version.
