Adult class in session, mixed ages, with women on the mats.
Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai for adults in Vero Beach, in beginner classes, with Master Renato Tavares leading both locations: a 6th degree black belt under Carlson Gracie Sr.
After you fill out the form, someone from our team will reach out to set the day and time.
Nobody here is made to feel small about where they are. That goes for the person who started four weeks ago and for the black belt.
Everyone on the mat has been the new person, and they remember what that felt like. The ones who have been here longer teach the ones just getting started.
Kids, teens and adults training in the same school. If you moved to town without knowing anybody, you will find your people here.
The thought keeps coming back, and something always gets in the way: a full week, being tired, the Monday that turned into the next Monday.
And when you actually picture walking in, the same questions show up. Whether everyone in there already knows something and you don't. Whether you can keep up. Whether starting from scratch in front of other people is going to be embarrassing.
That is how almost every adult gets here, and that is exactly who the beginner class is for.
It isn't willpower. It's having somewhere to be two or three times a week, and someone correcting the one detail you keep missing.
An hour with your phone in a locker, working on a problem that takes all of your attention. The day stays outside the mats, and you leave class lighter than you walked in.
Knowing how to defend yourself changes how you walk down the street and how you take up space in a room. It isn't about fighting anyone: it's about losing that uneasy feeling of not knowing what you would do.
The position that was impossible last month and works today. The class that used to wreck you and doesn't anymore. You don't have to believe you are getting better, because you can see it.
The class notices when you are not there. A lot of people land in Vero Beach without knowing anybody, and the mats end up being where they make their first friends in town.
Steady effort from start to finish, and the hour goes by fast because you are solving a problem instead of counting reps.
You don't have to be motivated to show up. You need a class on the schedule, an instructor expecting you, and a group that counts on you. Discipline comes from that, not the other way around.
No experience, no conditioning, and nobody paying attention to how out of breath you are.
Two arts, taught in depth by people who have been training them for decades.
On the ground, working control, position and leverage, in the traditional uniform. It's the base of the adult program and the best place to start.
The same Jiu Jitsu without the uniform: faster, different grips, and the same work on position.
Standing up, with its own classes. Muay Thai and kickboxing are not the same thing, and what you train here is Muay Thai.
Where every adult starts, at any age and any level of conditioning. You don't get dropped into the advanced class.
At RT, the technique is the means and the lesson is the product. What you learn on the mats follows you out the door: into work, into your house, into the way you work through a problem.
You learn to control, defend and finish efficiently, corrected by someone with five decades on the mats.
Training builds more than muscle. It builds focus, discipline and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
Nobody here is made to feel small about where they are, from the black belt to the person who started four weeks ago.
Adult women training, in a real class.
The first question is never about technique. It's whether there will be another woman in class.
Here, women train in the same classes, with the same instructors and the same program. And they train the art where size matters least: Jiu Jitsu works on leverage and distance, not on strength.
RT students talking about their first week, and what changed after it.
Adult student testimonial. Name and time training.
Female student testimonial. Name and time training.
Adult student testimonial. Name and time training.
Master Renato teaching or correcting a student on the mats.
Master Renato Tavares has been training Jiu Jitsu for 52 years, 31 of them as a black belt, and he is a 6th degree black belt under Carlson Gracie Sr., one of the names that shaped Jiu Jitsu into what is taught today.
He leads both locations. That lineage is where RT's way of teaching comes from: the detail somebody corrects in your first week comes out of five decades of doing this.
Two in Vero Beach, ten minutes apart. Same program and the same Master Renato leading both. What changes is the address, the schedule and who is on the mats.
RT Beachside storefront and mats.
2215 7th Ave, Vero Beach, FL 32960
Closer to the beach.
The adult class schedule for RT Beachside, with the beginner classes marked.
Name, program, belt and one line about them.
Name, program, belt and one line about them.
Name, program, belt and one line about them.
RT HQ storefront and mats.
6200 20th St, Suite 382, Vero Beach, FL 32966
The main location, and the larger of the two.
The adult class schedule for RT HQ, with the beginner classes marked.
Name, program, belt and one line about them.
Name, program, belt and one line about them.
Name, program, belt and one line about them.
The difference between those two is the decision you can make right now.
Fill out the form and our team will reach out to schedule your free trial class.
After you fill out the form, someone from our team will reach out to set the day and time.
Mockup section. The questions and answers come from RT: the ones the team hears most at the front desk, on the phone and over WhatsApp.
RT's answer to question 1.
RT's answer to question 2.
RT's answer to question 3.
RT's answer to question 4.
RT's answer to question 5.
RT's answer to question 6.
After you fill out the form, someone from our team will reach out to set the day and time.