First off, Happy New Year to everyone! This year is no doubt going to be the biggest and best year Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA has ever seen with alot of great and really exciting stuff in the works for this coming year. This month only as a special insentive to jump start read more »

Last week one of the most legendary brazilian jiu jitsu fighters in the World today stopped by his number one affiliate academy in Oklahoma, Lovato's School of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA. Needless to say the seminar was a smashing sucess, full of incredible information on all fronts of bjj read more »

Saulo Ribeiro is widely reguarded as one of the World's very best and one of the greatest legends to ever have graced brazilian jiu jitsu and fortunately for us he leads the head of our association which is a huge honor, what does this mean? We get acess to Saulo's teachings and train read more »

Team Ribeiro who was heavily fortified by competition team members from Team Lovato took the second place overall team award for both the gi and no gi at the American Nationals this year. Team Lovato looked sharp as ever and brought home some serious hardware! Individual results inclu read more »

Enjoy this highlight video of Team Lovato competing at the 2011 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Championships.  read more »

Rafael Lovato Jr is featured yet again online at GracieMag. Check out the article! Rafael Lovato Wins in Abu Dhabi (http://www.graciemag.com/en/2011/04/world-no-gi-pro-saturday-in-abu-dhabi/) read more »

Head Instructor of Lovato's Mixed Martial Arts, Rafael Lovato Jr was in Abu Dhabi this past weekend for the Abu Dhabi Pro World No-Gi Championships. Rafael fought very well defeating 3 opponents including the Absolute champion, Rodolfo Viera 4 x 2 and 2010 World Champion, Bernardo Faria. Goo read more »

Rafael Lovato Jr headed to the Abu Dhabi World Pro Cup Lovato's head instructor is headed to Abu Dhabi to compete in the World Pro Cup. This weekend he will be competing in a no-gi tournament and will stay another week to compete in the Gi tournament. Rafael has trained hard for these competitions read more »

For the 2nd year in a row Team Lovato showed once again why it is one of the top teams in the country by earning 3rd place overall at the 2011 International Houston BJJ Open! Up against many teams with 50 or more competitors combined from several schools, Lovato's School of BJJ took 39 competitors  read more »

After competing in the European's Rafael Lovato Jr stuck around and conducted some seminars before competing in the Abu Dhabi Pro Trials in Poland. Many elite guys did the same. Rafael was nearly perfect on that day. He lost one match to an advantage in his weight class and was 6-1 on the day. Ra read more »