What is Cleveland Gracie Jiu-Jitsu®Academy, Pedro Sauer Team? Saya Mike Jolley teaches Private Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – as an affiliate under Professor Pedro Sauer and Sifu Alan Baker – at the Cleveland Gracie Jiu-Jitsu®Academy Training Center.   

What is Pedro Sauer Team? 

Professor Pedro Sauer was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  At age five he began boxing and later took up judo and taekwondo.  At age 15, his friend Rickson Gracie invited him to train in Jiu-Jitsu with his younger brother, Royler (who was only 9!).  In 1990 he moved to California along with the original wave of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructors.  He lived with Rickson and trained daily with the Gracie brothers and their father Helio, their cousin Renzo, and their cousins the Machado brothers.  After moving to Utah in December of 1990, he taught as one of only two non-Gracie black belts under the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy (run by Rorion and Royce Gracie).  In 1996 he became an official representative Black Belt Instructor under the Rickson Gracie American Jiu-Jitsu Association.  Currently Pedro resides and teaches in Virginia.  He himself has several affiliated schools across the country and visits them on a regular basis to give intensive instruction to his instructors who are under him and their students (Sifu Alan Baker and the Atlanta Martial Arts Center www.atlantamartialartcenter.com and Saya Mike Jolley at Cleveland Gracie Jiu-Jitsu®Academy, Pedro Sauer Team in Cleveland, Tennessee.