After a very successful day of testing, many students of Lovato's were promoted to their next belt! There were numerous Yelllow, Orange, & Green belt recipients, but the highlight was the 8 students who were promoted to Blue Belt! This is a record number of students to receive their  read more »

After a great display of technique and determination during their testing, the next generation of Lovato Jiu-JItsu Blue Belts were awarded. Congratulations to Shane Barnett, Avery Holmes, Tyler West, Sean Ly, Chris Foust, & Jeff Hicks for earning their Brazilian JIu-Jitsu Blue Belts read more »

Recently, Gracie Magazine pointed out some of the top non-Brazilian BJJ competitors to keep an eye out for leading up to this years Pan-American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships. Newly promoted Black Belt and recent 2010 No-Gi World Champion, Justin Rader, was one of the competitors mentioned. Lo read more »

March is off to a great start with some students of Lovato's earning new belts and stripes. Congratulations to Bobby Dhimmar, Derek Roberts, Stephen Griffith, and Jason Ammons for becoming the latest Lovato Jiu-Jitsu Blue Belts! This is the first big step in Jiu-Jitsu and after a long test and a l read more »

Lovato's School of Brazilian JIu-Jitsu wishes you all a very Happy New Year! To help you kick off the year in the right direction, we want to let you all know that we are offering a killer New Years Resolution Special! For all of you that have thought about learning martial arts, want to get in be read more »

Check out the highlight video about the 2010 RJJA Annual that was hosted here in Oklahoma City by Rafael Lovato Jr. It was an awesome weekend with over 15 black belts coming here to meet and exchange techniques and ideas. There was also a tournament with all the best athletes in the Ribeiro Jiu-Ji read more »

Rafael Lovato Jr has been in Oregon since the No-Gi World Championships on Nov. 7th. He started his week by visiting the team in Oregon; James Puopolo (http://okbjj.com/_blog/News_and_Announcements/post/Amercian_Nationals_Results/), Ben Baxter (http://okbjj.com/_blog/News_and_Announcements/post/Ben read more »

This past week saw a lot of students (http://okbjj.com/ContactUs.htm) earn new belts at Lovato's. After a long hard day of testing, Abby Dressler, Dalton Loafman, Austin Shroyer, Kevin Turcios, Long Nguyen, Robert Bebout, Brad Trent, and Brandon Crumm all earned their blue belts. All of these stu read more »

On October 9th, 2010 Lovato Jiu Jitsu was pleased to host the 12th Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Association Tournament in Oklahoma City, OK. Leading up to that day, Lovato's welcomed many visitors of the RJJA to the school to train, get to know each other and exchange ideas. Throughout the week we were gr read more »

From the University of Jiu Jitsu's (http://www.unijj.com) Website: (http://www.unijj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/instructor-promotions.jpg) The 12th Annual reunion of Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu affiliates was held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma this year under the guidance of Rafael Lovato Jr. read more »