ABOUT GC TEAM NZ

Born in 2020, GC Team NZ is one of the newer clubs in the NZ Jiu Jitsu scene.
Created by owner and head professor Gledson De Silva, recent Pan Pacific 2023 4x Champion.

You can read more on Gledson's story and accolades below.

In our short time here, we have already established over 200 members, and made a name for ourselves with recent team wins at National Championships.

With an experienced team of instructors, GC Team nurtures your independent thinking and encourages you to learn. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu connects the mind and body whilst also keeping you fit.

At GC Team NZ we pride ourselves on welcoming all new students, and ensuring a fun and friendly atmosphere. We offer classes for all levels ranging from Kids, Beginner, Intermediate / Advanced, as well as competition training.

With a brand new gym in GI, now is the perfect time to take the step into martial arts!

We also have an onsite personal trainer Bruno Carlvalho and weights gym.

Check out our daily class schedule.

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ABOUT OUR HEAD COACH

Gledson Cigano

Cigano as he is commonly known, started Jiu-Jitsu in 2010 when he was 22 years old, competed only once as a white belt and only returned to the competition mats in his purple belt, defending BTT, a team that he trained with until his brown belt.

Since then he has collected several medals from many championships, most of them in his brown belt where he spent two years undefeated in his category, he got his black belt in August 2019 from his professor Claudio Custodio.

In 2020 Cigano moved to New Zealand. But before that he went through one of the most difficult moments of his life where, due to Covid, He was unable to bring his wife and son, thus being away for 2 years and 4 months until the country's borders opened again to the world.

Cigano stood out in the NZ Jiu-Jitsu scene becoming champion of Oceania, three time national Gi champion and many others.

He was also the creator of Black Belts Meeting in New Zealand, a meeting that has been taking place for two years, bringing together the country's black belts every month to train together and unite local Jiu-Jitsu. Today Cigano and a leader of GC Team NZ. One of the most complete and structured academies in the country with a team of more than 200 students at the HQ and with two more branches in Clevedon and Hamilton.

ACCOLADES

2023 IBJJF Pan Pacific Master 1 Super Heavy Champion
2023 IBJJF Pan Pacific Master 1 Absolute Champion
2023 IBJJF Pan Pacific No-Gi Master 1 Absolute Champion
2023 IBJJF Pan Pacific No-Gi Master 1 Super Heavy Champion
2022 Champion National open, New Zealand
2021 Champion National open, New Zealand
2020 Champion National open, New Zealand
2020 Champion Oceania open, New Zealand
2019 Champion Leag de jiu-jitsu, Brazil
2019 Champion Open Joao Pessoa, Brazil
2019 Champion Copa CB, Brazil
2019 Champion Grandslan Natal, Brazil
2019 Champion Open Recife, Brazil
2019 Champion Copa RN, Brazil
2019 Champion Copa Lampiao, Brazil
2018 Champion Nordeste open de Jiu-Jitsu, Brazil
2018 Champion Open Santa Cruz, Brazil
2018 Champion Norte Nordeste, Brazil
2017 Champion Mossoro open, Brazil
2016 Champion Mossoro open, Brazil

Bruno Carlvalho

Registered Personal Trainer
Strength training
1 on 1 and group sessions
Online Consulting

All GC Team NZ Members receive a 20% discount on Bruno's services.