Jiu-Jitsu is a skill. Teaching is, too.
João Crus brings more than two decades of teaching experience to courses made for practical learning and lasting development.
teaching children
A teacher shaped by movement, competition, and connection.
João began Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro in 1998 after years in competitive swimming, sailing, windsurfing, and karate. That broad background taught him to see movement as both a technical practice and a way of understanding ourselves.
As an academy owner and longtime children’s instructor, he has developed a coaching approach that meets students as people first. His classes use Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as a practical setting for attention, confidence, boundaries, self-regulation, and resilience.
Jiu-Jitsu Classes Online brings that experience online through complete curricula and focused studies that students and coaches can use directly on the mat.
“Relational first. Physical second.”
Clear technique.
Human teaching.
The goal is not simply to collect more moves. It is to understand what you are practicing, why it matters, and how to share it responsibly.
Bring learning back to the mat.
Watch with a purpose, study a focused section, and test the idea with an appropriate training partner.
Build skill in clear steps.
Use reliable progressions rather than chasing disconnected techniques.
Teach the person in front of you.
Adapt language, pace, and expectations to the student—not only the technique.