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Lovato Jiu-Jitsu One of the Top Ten Teams of the Decade!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Saturday, March 26, 2011

Grapplers Quest is the #1 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling Circuit in North America. Grapplers Quest has been holding events since 1999 all over the country and during that time they have been calculating all of the results, from every event, and recently they announced which teams won the most po read more »

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James Head is headed to Las Vegas for TUF tryouts

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Thursday, November 04, 2010

James Head (http://facebook.com/thejameshead) is currently in Las Vegas at the tryouts for the reality television show "The Ultimate FIghter (http://www.ultimatefighter.com/)" produced by the UFC (http://www.ufc.com). The UFC is the top organization in Mixed Martial Arts (http://okbjj.com/MMA.htm)an read more »

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Saulo Ribeiro in Oklahoma City at Lovato Jiu Jitsu

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Thursday, October 21, 2010

Rafael Lovato Jr. Interviews 6X Black Belt World Champion Saulo Ribeiro. While visiting Oklahoma City for the annual Ribeiro Jiu JItsu Association Tournament, Saulo took a little time out of training and teaching to talk about the training in Oklahoma City, what is going on with the Ribeiro Jiu read more »

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Rafael Lovato Jr Omoplata Highlight / Commercial for Instructional App

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Friday, October 08, 2010

The 2nd American to win the Mundials and 1st American to win the Brasiliero as a Black Belt, Rafael Lovato Jr. Omoplata highlight. This highlight is just a preview to the first instructional series done by Rafael, which will be an App detailing Rafael's Omoplata game. Look for this to be released so read more »

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Two Tournaments – One Day Highlight

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Friday, September 17, 2010

Check out this highlight video of Team Lovato's awesome performance on August 14th. Team Lovato won the overall Team Title at the Grapplers Quest in Dallas, Texas and on the same day another group of 8 Team Lovato competitors won over 20 medals in Las Vegas at the Vegas Open No-Gi Nationals. read more »

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Pictures from the August Belt promotions & Grapplers Quest Texas

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, September 06, 2010

Check out the pictures from our Belt promotion ceremony where Justin Rader became the first Lovato Black Belt and 8 other students were awarded their purple belts. Special guest Xande Ribeiro was in attendance. Please join our flickr account, while you are there. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lo read more »

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Grapplers Quest 2009 World Series of Grappling Highlight Video

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Wednesday, September 01, 2010

At the end of last year, Team Lovato had a dominant performance at the prestigious Grapplers Quest World Series of Grappling in Las Vegas. Team Lovato took the No-Gi title and was one of the top three teams overall with only 10 competitors. Check out the Team Lovato highlight video from the event! read more »

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Lovato Jiu-Jitsu takes overall title in Texas!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The results are in, Team Lovato takes the overall team title at the Grapplers Quest in Dallas. We are so proud of everyone's hard work and we are very excited to have won the very first Grapplers Quest in the Southwest. It should also be noted that we won over 20 medals in Las Vegas on the same day read more »

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Congratulations to James Popoulo!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, July 12, 2010

One of the standouts from the Lovato Oregon Team, James Popoulo, is having a great competition year. In his first year as a brown belt, James won the silver medal at the Pan-Ams and two bronze medals at the World Championships. James recently visited Oklahoma City for some training before he took of read more »

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Justin Rader wins Grapplers Quest Pro

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, July 05, 2010

Just one week after competing at the BJJ World Championships, Justin Rader headed to the East Coast to challenge himself yet again, this time without the gi. Rader won his lightweight no-gi pro division, submitting 2 out of 3 of his opponents. In the finals, Rader was able to submit last years champ read more »

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