Diane Armitage

Tinguinha Seminar

The Optimus Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy is proud to host a two hour seminar with Mauricio “Tinguinha” Mariano at our academy in Laguna Niguel. Tinguinha is one of the pioneers in the expansion of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial art worldwide, having founded BJJ schools in his native Brazil, Japan and the US, contributing to the

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Train Your Brain

A recent article in Newsweek (Jan 3 2011) names exercise as THE TOP builder of cognitive function (brain power). “Exercise stimulates the production of new synapses, the connections that constitute functional circuits and whose capacity and efficiency underlie superior intelligence. Kramer finds that a year of exercise can give a 70-year-old the connectivity of a

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