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Darcio Lira Jiu-Jitsu

Darcio Lira Jiu-Jitsu incorporates modern self-defense techniques into our jiu-jitsu curriculum as a fundamental skill set. In our dynamic system participants learn the fundamentals of leverage, grappling, and submission techniques tailored to real life self-defense scenarios.

Women's Only Class

While self-defense is important for everyone of all ages to learn, it is especially true for women and girls.

Our women's only self-defense program offer a safe and supportive environment where women and teen girls learn practical skills to help protect themselves in various situations. From mastering effective grappling techniques to situational awareness, our program focuses on empowering women with the knowledge and tools they need to help them feel confident and secure in any circumstance.

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1 day seminar

This free class is held periodically and is designed as an introduction to our women's self-defense class. Here you will be introduced into some of the techniques offered and meet our instructors. It is not meant as a one and done program. Being able to maintain an effective level of technique requires constant training. We strongly encourage everyone who take this 1 day seminar to enroll in the self-defense classes.

If your interested in this 1 day class, send us a message via the "contact" tab above

8 week program

Our women's self-defense 8 week program is an affordable once a week class for women and teen girls only. It covers the majority of our self-defense techniques that are used in real life scenarios. In this program you will thoroughly learn and drill various situations. It is designed to help you build mindful situational awareness habits and self-defense muscle memory. We encourage women and teen girls to take this class multiple times to help engrain the self-defense mindset and become instantly and effectively responsive to potential or actual threats.

If your interested in this 8 week program, send us a message via the "contact" tab above

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Women's Self-Defense Instructors

Robbie heads our women's self-defense program with the help of her adult daughter, Amelia.

Robbie is a Darcio Lira brown belt that has been training jiu-jitsu for over 9 years. As an avid fan of MMA, Robbie has also trained judo and muay thai. She's a passionate proponent of women's self-defense and feels that every woman and girl needs to train jiu-jitsu

Amelia, a Darcio Lira purple belt started training jiu-jitsu and judo over 13 years ago as a youth.

As an avid and fierce competitor, Amelia has competed in countless tournaments in both jiu-jitsu and judo. Amelia has trained and competed all over the United States as well in Japan, Guam and Korea.