Core Values
The RGA exists because of what happens when coaches, students and academies who share the same values move together toward the same standard.
ASSOCIATION
Every affiliated academy operates under the same curriculum, the same support structure and the same standard, creating a network where coaches collaborate, students travel seamlessly and the collective strength of 50+ academies is available to every single member inside it.
Gracie Family
The Gracie family paved the road for how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the way it is today. The RGA carries that lineage with full responsibility, teaching with the same authenticity, technical excellence and genuine respect for the art that the Gracie name has always demanded.
LEGACY
Ten World Championship titles. The most submission victories at world championship level in the history of the sport. Roger's competitive legacy is the foundation but the legacy the RGA builds is broader. It lives in every black belt who passes the curriculum forward, every child who finds confidence in their first class and every academy owner who builds something that genuinely changes their community.
Loyalty
Loyalty inside the RGA means loyalty to the art, to your students and to the network. It is built through consistent presence, honest teaching and holding the standard every other affiliated academy is holding because the name above your door is shared, and what you do with it reflects on every coach and student who carries it alongside you.
DISCIPLINE
Roger Gracie became a ten-time World Champion through a level of discipline most people are not willing to sustain. Drilling the same fundamental positions until the execution was perfect, then drilling again. Inside the RGA, discipline is not demanded. It is modelled by every certified instructor in the network and absorbed by every student who trains within it.
RESPECT
Respect inside the RGA is not a rule. It is a culture built from the ground up through the way coaches speak to students, the way senior belts treat beginners and the way the leadership team engages with every affiliate. It extends beyond the mat to training partners, opponents, the art itself and the people who built it.
FAMILY
Every RGA academy is built to feel like a community from the very first class. A space where people know each other, push each other and hold each other to the standard the art demands. That culture connects all Roger Gracie academies across the world into something far greater than the sum of its parts. At the Roger Gracie Association, Jiu-Jitsu is a way of life. The family that forms around it is why.