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Lovato's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu OKC Has First Testing of the Year Promoting 4 New Blue Belts!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Monday, March 04, 2013

March 2nd was our first scheduled belt testing of the new year and was a huge success! 15 people received promotions with 4 of those being new blue belts! Lovato's is very proud of the students who tested and would like to welcome Zack Hudson, Greg Morris, Josh Giza, and Jason Parker to the Ad read more »

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Oklahoma City Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Adult and Youth Belt Promotions for Team Lovato!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Professors & Coaches with the promoted students! Last Saturday, Sept 29th, some very deserving students received their next belts on their way to earning their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belts! The big promotions of the day went to 6 great students who received their BJJ B read more »

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Amazing Day at Lovato's BJJ & MMA - 2 New BLACK BELTS!!!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Sunday, January 22, 2012

Professor Rader, Professor Harper, Professor Rafael Lovato Jr. & Sr., Professer Serna, and Jesse Sunderman Saturday, January 21st was a historical day for Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Mixed Martial Arts. On that day there were many new belts awarded to som read more »

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New Belts and Stripes Awarded!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Sunday, March 06, 2011

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 »

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New Year Special Happening Now!!!

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Wednesday, January 05, 2011

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 »

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Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu Association Annual Tournament Highlight

Rafael Lovato Jr. - Thursday, December 09, 2010

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 »

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Rafael visits Oregon and hands out new belts

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Monday, November 15, 2010

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 »

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October Belt Promotions at Lovato's

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Sunday, October 31, 2010

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 »

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Full Write-Up and Results from the 12th RJJA Tournament

Lovato Jiu-Jitsu - Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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 »

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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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