Three pieces of news about GMA member team Vita Jiu-Jitsu.

Team leader Sergio Vita competed at the London Open international, last weekend, and conquered the black belt senior 1 lightweight division.

Vita posted a podium picture and thanked his team for the support.

Back in Portugal, Vita is inaugurating a new mat this Tuesday, in São João do Estoril.

To close this newsflash, Vita will welcome a Francisco “Toco” seminar next October, 30th.

Toco is a Carlson Gracie black belt.

For more info, visit Sergio’s page at Facebook.

Now, he will be offering his top notch BJJ to that country’s capital.

Vita Team now in Lisbon. Vita on the right

Sergio Vita wrote about the great news for Lisbonners.

“Now the gentle art will be taught at the Political Sciences Institute, in  Lisbon. It is BJJ conquering its place in society.”

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The newspaper “A Bola” (The ball), usually dedicated to soccer, devoted two pages to Jiu-Jitsu.

Entitled “Uma grande escola de vida em Cascais” (A great school of life in Cascais), the piece talked about the success of Sergio Vita’s work in that country.

With over 100 students, Vita took the opportunity to present to a wider audience the benefits of Jiu-Jitsu and to talk about the growth of his team since the beginning.

The newspaper completed the story with a brief timeline of the origins of the gentle art.

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