05/27/2026
The life you want has a price.
Most academy owners never sit down and name it.
This week Master Carlos Machado walked our member academy owners through a conversation most people avoid. What life do you actually want. What price is that life asking you to pay. And what are you doing every day that pulls you out of alignment with both.
Comfort addiction. External noise. Emotional decisions. Toxic relationships that drain your time before your students get any of it.
These are the quiet things that decide whether an academy grows or stalls.
This is what happens inside the CMJJ Association every week. Live leadership conversations with Master Carlos Machado and a room of academy owners working through the same problems you are.
Apply to become a member at https://cmjjassociation.com.
Train Smart. Stay Humble.
05/27/2026
This is what your students train next month.
The June 2026 Machado Method curriculum just dropped. 29 lessons. Gi and No-Gi. Both tracks built out in full.
Grip battle systems. Kimura traps. Triangle and omoplata finishes.
Underhook passing. Mount control and escapes. Takedown drills.
Drills, techniques, and live application. Structured the way students actually learn.
This is what your academy gets every single month. No gaps. No scrambling for the next lesson. A proven blueprint, refreshed and ready to teach.
Imagine never planning a class from scratch again.
Membership is open.
Apply to become a member: https://cmjjassociation.com
Train Smart. Stay Humble.
05/13/2026
May curriculum is live.
13 lessons from Master Carlos. 3 mobility drills. 10 techniques.
This month covers dominant position building from every angle. Guard attacks, knee ride control, submissions from top, and the defensive escapes your students need when they end up on the bottom.
Structured. Sequenced. Ready to teach this week.
Log in at machadomethod.com to access
Not a member yet? Visit cmjjassociation.com to apply.
05/12/2026
Lead by the amazing Master Carlos Machado we are a Jiu-Jitsu Organisation that is full of family love
Not wishy washy pretend to be friends type of love
We are an organisation that truly believes in one and other and are there for each other night and day
If you would like to know more about our organisation simply drop a message and one of our team will contact you ❤️❤️❤️
05/10/2026
This! OSS🤜🤛
In martial arts, people often ask why lineage matters.
Why not just go rogue? Why not buy a curriculum online, print certificates, and build your own system?
Because lineage is more than techniques.
Lineage is accountability. It’s history. It’s mentorship. It’s pressure. It’s someone above you who can still correct you.
Anybody can purchase a program. Anybody can watch instructionals. Anybody can call themselves “Professor” in today’s world.
But standing under someone like Carlos Machado means you are tied to something bigger than yourself.
It means your students are connected to decades of knowledge, mistakes, refinement, competition, teaching, and culture that existed long before you arrived.
As an academy owner, I don’t see lineage as weakness. I see it as humility and responsibility.
A lone wolf academy may move fast… but a connected academy has roots.
When I fly the Carlos Machado flag, it’s not because I can’t think for myself. It’s because I value having elders, standards, structure, and a tribe that sharpens me.
Could I walk away and do my own thing? Sure.
But martial arts was never meant to be built entirely alone.
The belt around my waist has a story attached to it and I believe that story matters.
