How The World's 2X Youngest Jiu-Jitsu Champion Aielle Aguilar Trained With Her Parents | Toni Talks
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sa Abu Dhabi World Jiu-Jitsu Festival.
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Kayang-kaya niya ang drop-lick,
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at submission holds
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para mapasuko ang kalaban.
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Panalo ulit ng gintong medalya
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ang pinakabatang jiu-jitsu player ng Pilipinas
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sa Abu Dhabi Professional World Championship
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sa United Arab Emirates.
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How does it make you feel?
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When you read it.
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World Jiu-Jitsu Champion.
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You're the youngest.
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How did you do it?
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I started jiu-jitsu when I was 2 years old.
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Paano? Paano nag-start, Alvin?
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So, we trained a lot.
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Si May, her mother, is the first Filipino world champion.
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We're always on the mats.
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And then, ever since she was a kid, she saw it.
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2 years old pa lang.
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Then, we started giving her games as 2 years old.
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Then, later on, she had her formal lessons at around 4.
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Formal lessons na at 4?
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Yeah. So, what they do is we give them games.
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So, the games are directly correlated to the movements in jiu-jitsu.
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So, they think they're playing,
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but they're actually doing the jiu-jitsu moves already.
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Ano yung mga moves pag 4 years old?
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Animal movements usually.
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It's a lot. It's a lot.
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Ano ba yung meron sa jiu-jitsu?
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Ano ang difference niya sa taekwondo?
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Jiu-jitsu, what do you call it?
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Its emphasis is on ground fighting.
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Taekwondo is more of kicks.
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It's just basically kicks.
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The ones who taught us jiu-jitsu were the ones who started the UFC.
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The founders of the UFC, the one you see now on TV,
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those were my instructors before.
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From Brazil and the U.S.
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Because you're also the founder of Mixed Martial Arts here in the Philippines.
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You're the father.
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Yes. Something like that.
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How many years na?
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We started doing underground fights in the 90s.
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Underground fights?
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Like, we challenge, challenge, beat each other up,
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and then after that, we're done. We do it again.
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Pride lang. Okay.
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Wala prize, pride lang.
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And then, we did that.
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And then in 2002, I put up the URCC because if you have underground fights,
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syempre, bad things happen also.
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Pag hindi makatanggap ng talo, it becomes too violent. Diba?
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So, we put up the URCC to sanitize everything.
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We were expecting 500 people to show up.
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5,000 people showed up.
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And then, until now, we're still going.
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Kasi narinig ko, May, 3 weeks old, sinama mo na siya sa training?
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Kakapanganak ko lang.
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I brought her to the mat.
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Kakapanganak mo lang?
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Actually, I had to get cleared kasi Ayal was born emergency CS.
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So, parang, my doctor naman was very open.
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You know, she's very, she adjusted to me being an athlete.
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So, she said, if I want to be on the mat, if I feel I can do it, I can go on the mat.
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So, I was there in the mat.
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Nandun na siya, nakalatag sa tabi namin habang nagtitrain ako.
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She was just there, yeah.
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Jiu-jitsu baby talaga.
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What do you like about jiu-jitsu, Ayal?
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Why is it fun for you?
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Because you can make a lot of friends and learn how to defend yourself.
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When there are bad people around you, you know how to defend yourself.
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Two years old, you know how to defend yourself.
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Two years old yung nag-show siya ng first interest?
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Yung sa jiu-jitsu?
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Paano niyo nakita na may interest siya sa jiu-jitsu?
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She's always there on the mat.
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She's always happy to be there.
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She's always excited to be there.
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And then her friends are there also.
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We made sure we had a nice community of kids also with her.
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Of course, there are a lot of kids doing it.
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Pero paano mo nakita yung anak mo na may something special and something different with her?
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When she does the drills and then when it's a competitive drill, you see it in her eyes that she wants to win.
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At two years old?
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Takes after the mom.
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The mom's very competitive.
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Baby pa lang siya.
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Like whenever we do things, she's like, I'll do it.
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Yung parang one of her first few words after mama, papa, and dog and cat was parang, I'll do it, I'll do it.
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So parang when it came down to training, she was like, I wanna do it.
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What do you like in training?
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The techniques and sparring and the games.
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What techniques do you know?
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Can you teach me one technique?
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What technique you can teach me or show me?
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Arm bar and the punch choke.
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That's how she wins all the time with the arm bar.
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Paano yung arm bar?
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It's her favorite submission.
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Okay, so you see it?
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Then you get the arm.
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And you put your leg over your head.
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Then you go here.
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Then you go here.
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Dito siya nanalo.
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Yung finals match niya po, arm bar submission.
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So she won her finals in 10 seconds because of that technique.
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Pag champion siya, parang mas times two ng feeling ng pagiging champion para sa magulang.
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Diba iba yung feeling?
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Parang you won as the first Filipina Jiu-Jitsu champion, diba, in the world.
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Pero yung feeling na yung anak mo yung mag-champion, ano yung feeling for you?
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Grabe yung kaba mo pag yung anak mo talaga yung maglalaro eh.
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You're more scared also eh, because you don't know, especially the format where she
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The format allows the child to be, you know, independent because when they go out there
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to compete, they're on their own.
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Bawal po kasi yung coach sa playing area.
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So I was worried kasi she's very attached to me.
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I was, I breastfed her for two years and she was...
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So nung two years old, nag-breastfeed pa rin siya while doing the Jiu-Jitsu?
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Even when she was competing in the world stage, she would go in the world stage, she
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would beat somebody, breastfeed muna, then lalaban siya ulit.
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Iba talaga ang mami.
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Doon ka world champion.
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Nailaban yung nagkocompete tapos breastfeeding sa dressing room.
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So yun nga, dahil sobrang attached siya sa akin and pag nawawala ako sa room, parang
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iiyak siya, clingy siya.
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So when it came to that point na parang okay, no parents allowed, no coaches allowed, I'm
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like, oh my gosh.
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Is she gonna do it?
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Is she gonna go out there and do it?
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And then I was really surprised, I was happy and excited and at the same time, I was very
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Paano yung when she gets hurt?
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She doesn't get hurt naman.
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She's pretty strong.
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She was born ready.
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Like baby pa lang siya.
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Like kunwari na she stumbles, parang nasasalan niya yung ulo niya.
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May natural instinct na siya.
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Do you get hurt sometimes when you're training, you're sparring, you're cooking?
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Oh, you don't get hurt.
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What does Jiu-Jitsu mean?
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The gentle way of our art.
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Yes, the gentle art.
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Mahirap ba mag-train kapag anak mo?
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She's easy to train.
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She's very easy to train.
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After school, she has wrestling classes, then she has Jiu-Jitsu after.
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She does it perfectly so we have no problem because it comes from within niya.
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It's not like something na, you have to do this, you have to do this, ganyan.
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It's not like that.
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I think the discipline comes when they sit down and listen to the coach.
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We ask our students to sit down like a black belt so we have a role model to strive for.
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Their goal is to become a black belt, eventually become a champion.
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So yung listening to the coach, being able to perform the techniques, and then one thing
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I noticed with the kids event that they developed is yung ability to take care of themselves
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because like after class, parang naging ritual nila is to fold their own gis and then pack
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their own things.
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So yun, dun lumalabas yung discipline dun sa pag-practice nila ng martial art eh.
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Kasi diba para maging world champion ka, hindi lang discipline, consistency, but it's
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also the mindset.
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You should have a mindset of a champion.
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You have the mindset of a champion because you are a champion yourself.
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Paano nyo na i-instill yung mindset na yun with her?
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Well, like for me, I make sure she's surrounded by people who have achieved and people who
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It has to be an environment because I'm of the firm belief like if you hang out with
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four losers, you're gonna be number five, right?
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So you have to make sure that, you know.
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You hang out with four champions so you're the fifth champion.
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Something like that, yes.
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Because you're two champions talagang.
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So kung saan nyo nalagay, siya ang naging third world champion and youngest pa.
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So totoo talaga yun, no?
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The environment is very, very influential.
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Very, very important.
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Sa upbringing ng isang bata.
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And not just bata.
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Anybody, I guess.
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Ang laki ng nagagawa ng environment who you hang out with and who you spend time with.
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Parang you become.
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The people you hang out with.
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You unconsciously absorb whatever they are, diba?
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I guess also because her brothers also compete.
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So may mga role models talaga siya sa bahay.
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Not just us but also her siblings.
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Paano nyo na-maintain yung balance sa bahay na like you're married, you're working together,
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you're training your child, you're raising up a new baby?
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Paano yung balance na yun as a family?
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For me, we enjoy each other's company naman.
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And then I guess we're all clingy that way because when I leave, I make sure that kasama sila all the time.
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So it's that kind of thing.
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We train together.
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We hang out together.
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For sports talaga yung travel mostly namin eh.
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What do you like most about training?
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What are the games?
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Sometimes we have to line up and do push-ups and then ten push-ups and jumping jacks.
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It's like a race.
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It's a race, yeah.
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What's the hardest?
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Everything is easy.
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What is your dream?
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Being a world champion, you already achieved it at a very young age, six years old.
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When you grow up, what do you want to be?
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You want to teach what?
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You want to teach jiu-jitsu?
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May credential na para magturo.
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What's one thing that you always teach your child?
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Her sons also as well.
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That you can only rely on yourself to get better.
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Nobody else will be there to push you.
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It all has to come from within.
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That's basically it.
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Especially with the boys.
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No one else is going to save you or whatever.
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It all has to come from you.
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You determine how good you become.
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You determine everything.
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But we're just here as guides.
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When they go on the stage, when they go out to compete, what they did behind the scenes,
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it comes out there.
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So they learn to overcome their fears, the pressure.
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When they go out on the mat, when they know that they've worked hard, they put it all out there.
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And then the results speak for itself.
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When she wins and even when she loses, she's experienced loss.
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How would you feel when you lose, baby?
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You already lost before?
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She would come back to us and say,
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Mama, can I try again?
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Masakit as a parent.
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But seeing her na parang hindi siya.
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Hindi naman siya disheartened.
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Hindi naman siya disheartened.
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Pero alam niyo parang gusto pa niyang subukan ulit.
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And she's willing to go back and try again.
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So it teaches them resilience talaga.
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And I think that's one thing that's important in a child's development.
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Resilience talaga.
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Yes, in this world.
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Kaya nga nabasa ko yun eh.
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Parang at a very young age, dapat daw yung mga bata,
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pinapasok na sila sa sports kasi iba yung discipline, iba yung mindset.
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And it teaches them how to regulate their emotions in handling disappointments.
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Because in sports naman or in any competition, you don't always win.
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Losing is just part of the process getting there anyway.
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The one time that she lost kasi I was unable to travel with her because he was abroad.
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And then I was pregnant.
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I was gonna give birth.
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But she really wanted to compete in Cebu.
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So I had my sister go with her.
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Sabi niya, nagpilit siya lang.
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Mama, umiiyak siya.
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If I don't go, I wanna compete.
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I really wanna compete.
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Please let me go.
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So nakiusap ako sa kapatid ko.
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Parang sige, samahan mo nga.
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Samahan mo yung kapatid kong bunso.
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Nung nag-compete siya, she didn't get what she wanted to go with.
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But after it, sabi niya, Mama, it's okay.
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I'm gonna try again next competition.
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Saan niya nakuha yun?
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Yung ganong attitude na sobrang niyang persistent.
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Tsaka yung perseverance.
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At a young age, five years old.
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And she's a positive influence even in the gym.
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Because like when her teammates lose and then they cry.
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Parang siya nandun.
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Parang, it's okay.
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You know, I lost too.
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And gana-gana niya.
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You talk to the other girls like that, right?
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But you encourage your friends.
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What do you want people to know about Jiu-Jitsu?
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About this sport?
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Okay, this is a sport that anyone can do at any age.
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And then, you can be equally as effective as, you know, as any strong guy.
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Because it's all technique.
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It's just technique, timing, and leverage.
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If you master that, you'll be able to beat most.
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And the thing is, you can be competitive in it.
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You can just use it for exercise.
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Or you can just use it to have fun.
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So there's so many ways around it.
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We have old students.
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We have really young students.
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We have guys who are, you know, working during the day.
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They just, they go there to de-stress.
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It's a martial art literally for anyone and everyone.
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Anong age pwede mag-start mag-Jiu-Jitsu?
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For formal lessons, about 4 years old, 5 years old.
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Until, the founder of Jiu-Jitsu, the one who taught me, si Helio Gracie, was training until he was 90.
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He was training until the week he died.
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Meron bang, like, routine, daily routine ang mga, a family of champions?
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When it's comp season, we follow a schedule.
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But when it's not comp season, when it's off season, we train, what, 2 to 4 hours a day lang.
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Yeah, it's also fun for us kasi.
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Because if it's your passion, it doesn't feel like work at all, di ba?
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So si Aiel, she trains 2 to 4 hours?
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Yes, she does wrestling first, then she does Jiu-Jitsu after.
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And sometimes it's both classes of Jiu-Jitsu.
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What if she's sleepy? Kasi di ba toddler? 2 years old? May nap time pa yun?
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No, nung 2 years old to 3, yun yung mga parang 30 minutes lang siyang mag-training.
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Tapos aalis siya.
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Tapos nung nag-4 na siya, dun lang talaga humaba yung attention span.
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Kasi when they're 2 and 3, you can't make the class more than an hour or more than 30 minutes actually.
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Kasi yun, they'll wander off eh. So you make it, yeah.
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Do you train everyday now?
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Ah, now really? After school?
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How long do you train everyday?
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You don't get bored? You don't get tired? You don't get hurt when you're training?
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You like it when you're training?
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All of our kids are national champions. We produced the most champions in Asia already.
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So we're the largest team also now in Asia. We're bigger than China, Japan, in the Philippines.
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We have 33 gyms here. So we're a lot.
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Parang after pandemic kasi, our team, we focused on the kids program na talaga. Especially galing tayong pandemic.
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So talagang nag-boom talaga yung kids program kasi all the kids were cooped up during the pandemic.
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So when everything opened up, they allowed gyms to operate.
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All of the kids just came pouring in. And yun nga, we have the largest kids program in the Philippines.
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Like, we were able to host our in-house for kids twice na last year and this year. And we had like 200 kids registered.
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Just the 200s around their age.
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So marami na po talagang nagtitrain na bata.
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We have a lot of little girls. And our little girls do really well. We have girls who are undefeated.
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So if I get more funding for them, I can bring them around the world also.
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Yeah. Because, you know, there are so many girls na.
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Like her age, a little bit older, who are really, really good.
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And then we have the parent support also, which is very important.
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Very important. I think that that's what makes a champion.
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When the parents are behind a child.
