Sensei Carvalho winning his division @ the Mundials(World BJJ Championships
Left To Right. Edson Carvalho, Bruno Carvalho, Ricardo Carvalho
Is your child full of energy? Is your child shy? Is your child in need of physical activity? Would you like to see a dramatic improvement in your child's overall behavior? Do you want your child prepared mentally and physically for a successful future full of sports participation and physical education? Then our kids judo program is for you!
Don't worry, these questions are perfectly normal and are asked by parents that worry about their children's well being. In this regard, Team Carvalho serves as an incentive to change bad habits and develop abilities that will help his or hers overall growth.
The abilities that your son or daughter will acquire with Team Carvalho, will help them develop as human beings and become confident, attentive, disciplined, responsible, respectful of others, better adjusted socially, with good motor and cognitive coordination, more agile, with good reflexes, self-esteem, self-knowledge, and self-control in any situation that life brings them.
The importance of the Judo in your child’s development
Judo is practiced by both sexes and it has contributed greatly with parents and teachers in helping children's development. In some countries such as France and Japan, Judo is such an important sport that it is part of the school curriculum.
The child that practices Judo develops muscles gently. Many orthopedic physicians recommend Judo during childhood, because they believe that it’s a good for normal development in this stage of life without compromising growth and physical structures.
The practice of a sport is essential to motivate a child all around. It helps children occupy their minds with healthy thoughts and attitudes and it develops the body in a healthy way.
Why Team Carvalho?
Team Carvalho has worldwide recognition in the martial arts field; it employs highly qualified professionals to teach your child everything he or she needs to develop good psych-motor skills through Recreational Judo.
We believed that any and all efforts dedicated to shaping a child's life is valid as long as it’d done with competence, responsibility, knowledge and appropriate techniques.
We work with children 4 years old and older. Our work is based on Judo techniques its philosophy is of Japanese origin and it’s founded on forming characters through sport.
What happens during class?
The first thing the children learn is to pay attention, obey, respect, order, and good behavior. We delay teaching fighting because very young children cannot concentrate and only want to play. But soon they want to copy the older kids and in this way they adapt easily to the test of group.
As previously mentioned we use Recreational Judo; kids have fun and are learn at the same time:
· Motor Coordination: activities that work every muscle in the body and also benefit the cardiovascular system.
· Cognitive Development: agility exercises, reflexes and reasoning.
· Emotional Development: teachings of discipline, respect, organization, responsibility, obedience and execution of tasks (school, family and social).
· Social Development: activities for pairs or groups; it provides interaction and socialization with other children.
The classes last 1 hour; at first there are greetings between the Sensei (teacher) and the Disciples (students), followed by stretching and gym workouts. All body parts are warmed and exercised in a subtle way, best suited for children’s muscles and body structures.
MMA Instuctor Dominic Tafuri Winning His Fight Against Mike Schenk
Dominic Tafuri Performing Some Ground and Pound on Ryan McCarthy
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts striking and grappling techniques, both while standing and on the ground. Such competitions allow martial artist of different backgrounds to compete. traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions. The rules allow the use of striking and grappling techniques, both while standing and on the ground.
During our MMA Class, No-Gi grappling is emphasized while adding strikes to the mix. Your training is based on your goals. If you want to be a professional fighter then prepare to train like one. If your goal does not include fighting professionally but you want to train like a fighter then you will.
Our MMA instructor is professional fighter and BJJ Brown Belt Dominic Tafuri. Professional Record 3-0-0 (Win-Loss-Draw) All by Submission.
In his native Brazil, Mestre Bayano witnessed how vulnerable young people can be to the negative influences of the streets. He saw children fall prey to drugs, alcohol, violence and a life of crime.But Mestre Bayano also saw other kids resist those temptations, and he saw some kids who had been swept away by drugs and destructive behavior turn their lives around. The key was capoeira, the Brazilian art of fight and dance that is growing in popularity in the United States and around the world. Capoeira builds discipline, confidence and physical strength. Mestre Bayano applied his extensive fitness-building skills to learning capoeira, and became one of the most respected capoeiristas in Brazil, where he also played professional soccer.
He has been doing capoeira for twenty five years, and teaching it for eighteen years. He has taught and performed capoeira all over the United States. Mestre Bayano has also performed capoeira overseas, including Portugal, Spain, Italy and France.
But a driving mission of Mestre Bayano’s work has been to introduce capoeira to children and teenagers so that they can adopt the discipline and self-respect that the martial art offers to stay focused and healthy.
Mestre Bayano, who earned the coveted rank of Professor of capoeira under the venerable Mestre Cesar Di Alabama, runs capoeira academies at five different locations in northern New Jersey. His academies boast numerous success stories of young people with social or health problems who overcame their struggles, even dramatically improving their condition. Other young people who didn’t necessarily face great adversity have nonetheless gained more confidence and attained greater levels of fitness through their training with Mestre Bayano.
He has taken his training beyond his academies, and has held workshops in schools around the United States and Brazil.
Mestre Bayano is the founder and president of The Cultural Association of Brazilian Arts (CAOBA). The association uses Brazilian culture and arts to expand the horizons of non-Brazilian youth and adults, as well as teach them the tools for personal social and fitness growth through capoeira.
His vast and skillful work through capoeira and the cultural association have garnered Mestre Bayano wide acclaim. He has been featured on ABC, Fox, and the major Spanish-language TV stations Univision and Telemundo.
Apart from his cultural association and academy work, Mestre Bayano is a head trainer for Bally Total Fitness in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. He has conducted capoeira workshops at nearly every Bally Total Fitness center in the tri-state area.
He is also a professional fighter with the team Edson Carvalho, which takes part in numerous martial arts events.
Mestre Bayano played professional soccer for seven years in Brazil, and later for Boston University and Columbia University. He received his college degree of physical education in Brazil.
