Great instruction for jiu-jitsu. Small place, but great family, awesome people to be around. Marcello is a good guy and really cares about making you a champion.

I agree with everyone who posted. Marcello is a nice guy, but Marcello is NEVER at the academy these days. I visited the academy last year after two years in another city and it was a complete joke. The basics classes were being taught by a blue belt, a competent blue belt, but still a blue belt. The price required for membership is WAY too high to have a blue belt for an instructor. They also offer the light beer version mma, Muay Thai, and boxing to go along with the light beer jiu jitsu. I would not waste your time at this gym. You always know when something isn’t right when there is constant turnover at any place of business. I wish Marcello the best, but his gym is horrible.

Let me start this review by saying I am in no way or form or fashion involved in management or ownership of the marcello monteiro academy. Second, I would like to appologise to the people who came to the academy and didn’t enjoy their experience. I have been training through a marcello monteiro affiliate academy for the last two years and have never had a negative experience. At this academy we specialize in marcello monteiro bjj curriculum. To be clear to those who don’t know marcello monteiro was personally trained by de la riva, who was personally trained by the gracies. Our curriculum is derived from the best in the world. I have great respect for the trainers and owners and full faith in their curriculum. It may take longer than some people want to advance their belt color thru marcello but that’s the best thing about it. Belts aren’t handed out here and you earn every thing you get. As far as the muay thai, I challenge anyone to find a better muay thai instructor than you will find thru here. Again, the curriculum is from the best in the world derived from matee jedeetipak. There is nowhere better to train in the indianapolis area for any martial art offered at marcellos, the instructors take their time helping you learn, its a fun and family friendly environment and our success is proven in competitions because when we compete, we win. Best of luck to you all in the future…

We are having a local business competitor posting negative reviews about my business. He is trying to damage to our online advertising. If you are someone interested in learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and want to check more about my credentials, please just search about “Marcello Monteiro” or “Monteirao” on Google or youtube, or just go to bjjcoach.com and indianapolisbjjcoach.com and you will be able to find out everything about my life with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Besides my academy I have an association here in the USA with over 40 instructors/academy owners under me. I live 5 minutes from the academy in Indianapolis and I am always there during week (teaching all the classes).

PS: We have hundreds of students and they are happy and always say good things or write good reviews about my business , but this person (business competitor) creates a fake usernames and go to my online pages to try to damage it. We know who he is, but we will not do the same. That is just bad business.

Marcello’s new website for his Indianapolis Jiu Jitsu gym is: http://www.indianapolisbjjcoach.com/

Just a heads up