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Royce Gracie Academy of Mount Pleasant
We Help Parents Raise Confident Leaders & Adults Reach Their True Potential! Learn real-world self-defense while having fun, getting fit, and building self-discipline.
If you’re looking for fun, effective, and safe martial arts training, you’ve come to the right place!
As the only Royce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Affiliate in South Carolina, Royce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is a self- defense system proven effective in real-world scenarios. It’s great for teaching kids how to non-aggressively protect themselves from bullies as well as for anyone who wants to learn how to defend themselves. We offer Jiu Jitsu for children and adults, as well as Muay Thai and mixed martial arts for adults so we are confident we have something for everyone!
Royce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy of Mount Pleasant is the only official Royce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Network school in South Carolina. Our Professor trains with Royce and has been promoted to Black Belt by Royce himself. At the heart of everything that we do is our passion for education and our commitment to our students.
Programs:
Children’s Jiu Jitsu
We Share & teach The Same Values You Teach At Home.
Our programs have a strong focus on personal development. The foundations of our morals, values and core character traits are formed in our early years. For this reason, the programs at Royce Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy MP are an essential way to enhance the growth and personal development of young students of all ages.
Our kids classes are a mixture of fun games, agility exercises, and foundational self-defense skills that build self-confidence,
respect for one another, discipline, self-control, focus, and physical fitness.
Kids Program is 6 to 9 years old; Youth Program is 10 to 14 years old
Adult Jiu Jitsu
We are the only Academy in SC that offers the official curriculum developed by Royce Gracie himself.
Master the principles and strategies to defeat the opposition through Royce Gracie Self-Defense: Striking; Clinching; Takedowns; and Groundwork. You will learn techniques and combinations to improve your reaction time, and refine your standing and grounded Jiu Jitsu technique.
Cultivate the ultimate gamesmanship with ever refining tactics, evolving goals, and endless possibilities, this is probably the most fun activity in existence.
Our focus is to help you develop your natural attributes into the best chances for success, whatever that means to you.
Muay Thai
The Science of Eight Limbs:
Punch, Kick, Elbow, Knee
Have a blast in this 60 minute, beginner friendly, high energy, conditioning focused class. We help you beat your workout into submission through awesome, high energy, full body movements. Combines punches, kicks, elbows and knees. Get ripped beating up all of those annoying daily stressors and feel great knowing you could overcome any obstacle.
Lethwai
The Science of Nine Limbs:
Punch, Kick, Elbow, Knee, & Headbutt
Lethwai is absolutely not for beginners!
We focus heavily on advanced tactical, combative, and conditioning aspects. Develop power, form, and strategies to defeat any threat when it matters most.
All new students must complete our training program and test into this program.
Professor and Ajarn Joshua
Professor Joshua has been studying martial arts since 1992, and began his journey in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai in 1995. In 2003 he became one of Royce’s students as a Blue Belt, and started teaching in 2005. Since then he has earned all 5 of his subsequent levels (Purple, Brown, Black (WB), Black (BB), and Full Professor) from Royce.
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1007 Johnnie Dodd’s Blvd
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
Hours
Monday–Thursday
10am–9pm
Sunday
9am–12pm
Royce Gracie 360 –
This is Master Royce’s proprietary self-defense curriculum he wrote using his father’s, Grandmaster Helio Gracie’s, foundation and informed through 30+ years of teaching at the Academy, military and law enforcement, and as a professional fighter. The goal is having fun, getting in shape, staying healthy and injury free. This is the real-deal not sport competition Jiu Jitsu! Insure that you prevail when what matters most is at stake.
-Level 1 is everything you need to go from White to Blue Belt. 80% standing self-defense, 20% grounded self-defense. Develop good technical foundations of control, accuracy, basic mechanics is the key to success here.
All new members start at Level 1 and must graduate up to higher levels.
-Level 1.5 (for current members only; Permission from Professor Joshua required) is rank determined and for practicing technique, Rolling-Drills, Live-Drills, and various levels of application.
-Level 2 is intermediate techniques and 80% groundwork. Includes Applications. For Current Members only; Permission from Professor Joshua required!
-Level 3 is for Military and Law Enforcement.
Kids are children age 5 to 8
Youth are children 9 to 14
Adults are 14 and above
Muay Thai
(for adults only) is the science of Eight Limbs: Punches, Kicks, Elbows, and Knees. We take a step back from the sport application and focus on more on the battlefield, Muay Boran functionality. The goal is having fun, getting in shape, staying healthy and injury free.
Lethwai
(for adults only) is like Muay Thai’s meaner fraternal-twin sister from Burma. It encompasses different ways of doing the similar techniques and different targeting on the opponent. If you absolutely have to protect the things that are worth protecting and do not want to risk going to the ground then accept no substitute…
-Level 1 is cardio conditioning and developing good technical foundations of control, accuracy, basic mechanics.
-Level 2 is basic defensive applications, movement, and situational awareness. (for current members only; all students must test into level 2; permission from Ajarn Joshua required)
-Level 3 is intermediate applications. (for current members only; all students must test into level 3; permission from Ajarn Joshua required)