Learn more about the world of jiu-jitsu from the viewpoint of the Aguilar family as we talk about the discipline and trade secrets that make them a family of champions.

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Hi, Ayan!

Wow! My baby!

Hello! Nice to meet you!

Hi!

Can I see? Wow!

Dalawa na, Abu Dhabi, 2022 and 2023.

Ayan, good!

Manalo sa Kids 1 Under 16 KG category

ang limang taong gulang na si Alea Ayel Aguilar

sa Abu Dhabi World Jiu-Jitsu Festival.

Kayang-kaya niya ang drop-lick,

ground fighting,

at submission holds

para mapasuko ang kalaban.

Panalo ulit ng gintong medalya

ang pinakabatang jiu-jitsu player ng Pilipinas

sa Abu Dhabi Professional World Championship

sa United Arab Emirates.

Congratulations!

Is it heavy?

Kind of.

How does it make you feel?

When you read it.

World Jiu-Jitsu Champion.

You're the youngest.

In the world?

How did you do it?

I started jiu-jitsu when I was 2 years old.

2 years old?

Paano? Paano nag-start, Alvin?

We both trained.

So, we trained a lot.

Si May, her mother, is the first Filipino world champion.

We're always on the mats.

And then, ever since she was a kid, she saw it.

2 years old pa lang.

Then, we started giving her games as 2 years old.

Then, later on, she had her formal lessons at around 4.

Formal lessons na at 4?

Yeah. So, what they do is we give them games.

So, the games are directly correlated to the movements in jiu-jitsu.

So, they think they're playing,

but they're actually doing the jiu-jitsu moves already.

Ano yung mga moves pag 4 years old?

Animal movements usually.

It's a lot. It's a lot.

Ano ba yung meron sa jiu-jitsu?

Ano ang difference niya sa taekwondo?

Jiu-jitsu, what do you call it?

Its emphasis is on ground fighting.

Taekwondo is more of kicks.

It's just basically kicks.

The ones who taught us jiu-jitsu were the ones who started the UFC.

The founders of the UFC, the one you see now on TV,

those were my instructors before.

From Brazil and the U.S.

Ayan.

Because you're also the founder of Mixed Martial Arts here in the Philippines.

Yes.

You're the father.

Yes. Something like that.

How many years na?

We started doing underground fights in the 90s.

Underground fights?

Yes.

Meaning?

Like, we challenge, challenge, beat each other up,

and then after that, we're done. We do it again.

Wala prize?

Wala. Pride.

Pride lang. Okay.

Wala prize, pride lang.

And then, we did that.

And then in 2002, I put up the URCC because if you have underground fights,

syempre, bad things happen also.

Pag hindi makatanggap ng talo, it becomes too violent. Diba?

So, we put up the URCC to sanitize everything.

We were expecting 500 people to show up.

5,000 people showed up.

And then, until now, we're still going.

Kasi narinig ko, May, 3 weeks old, sinama mo na siya sa training?

3 weeks.

Kakapanganak ko lang.

I brought her to the mat.

Kakapanganak mo lang?

Actually, I had to get cleared kasi Ayal was born emergency CS.

So, parang, my doctor naman was very open.

You know, she's very, she adjusted to me being an athlete.

So, she said, if I want to be on the mat, if I feel I can do it, I can go on the mat.

So, I was there in the mat.

Nandun na siya, nakalatag sa tabi namin habang nagtitrain ako.

She was just there, yeah.

Jiu-jitsu baby talaga.

Yeah.

Since birth.

What do you like about jiu-jitsu, Ayal?

It's fun.

It's fun?

Why is it fun for you?

Because you can make a lot of friends and learn how to defend yourself.

When there are bad people around you, you know how to defend yourself.

Two years old, you know how to defend yourself.

Two years old yung nag-show siya ng first interest?

Yes.

Yung sa jiu-jitsu?

Yes.

Paano niyo nakita na may interest siya sa jiu-jitsu?

She's always there on the mat.

She's always happy to be there.

She's always excited to be there.

And then her friends are there also.

We made sure we had a nice community of kids also with her.

Of course, there are a lot of kids doing it.

Pero paano mo nakita yung anak mo na may something special and something different with her?

When she does the drills and then when it's a competitive drill, you see it in her eyes that she wants to win.

At two years old?

Yeah.

Takes after the mom.

The mom.

The mom's very competitive.

Baby pa lang siya.

Like whenever we do things, she's like, I'll do it.

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.

So parang when it came down to training, she was like, I wanna do it.

What do you like in training?

The techniques and sparring and the games.

What techniques do you know?

Can you teach me one technique?

What technique you can teach me or show me?

Arm bar and the punch choke.

Oh.

Arm bar.

That's how she wins all the time with the arm bar.

Paano yung arm bar?

It's her favorite submission.

Can you show us?

Okay, so you see it?

Okay.

Oh, teach tita.

Then you get the arm.

The arm?

Yes.

And you put your leg over your head.

Yes.

Then you go here.

And then?

Then you go here.

Okay.

Do it fast now.

Ready?

Dito siya nanalo.

Yung finals match niya po, arm bar submission.

So from here.

Put my arm up.

Go.

There you go.

Oh.

So she won.

Okay.

So she won her finals in 10 seconds because of that technique.

Wow.

Yeah.

Pag champion siya, parang mas times two ng feeling ng pagiging champion para sa magulang.

Yes.

Diba iba yung feeling?

Pagsilo.

Parang you won as the first Filipina Jiu-Jitsu champion, diba, in the world.

Yes.

Pero yung feeling na yung anak mo yung mag-champion, ano yung feeling for you?

Grabe yung kaba mo pag yung anak mo talaga yung maglalaro eh.

It's different.

You're scared.

You're more scared also eh, because you don't know, especially the format where she

competed in.

The format allows the child to be, you know, independent because when they go out there

to compete, they're on their own.

Bawal po kasi yung coach sa playing area.

So I was worried kasi she's very attached to me.

I was, I breastfed her for two years and she was...

Wow.

Breastfeed.

So nung two years old, nag-breastfeed pa rin siya while doing the Jiu-Jitsu?

Yes.

Siya naman.

Even when she was competing in the world stage, she would go in the world stage, she

would beat somebody, breastfeed muna, then lalaban siya ulit.

Iba talaga ang mami.

Doon ka world champion.

Nailaban yung nagkocompete tapos breastfeeding sa dressing room.

Yes.

Oo.

So yun nga, dahil sobrang attached siya sa akin and pag nawawala ako sa room, parang

iiyak siya, clingy siya.

So when it came to that point na parang okay, no parents allowed, no coaches allowed, I'm

like, oh my gosh.

Is she gonna do it?

Is she gonna go out there and do it?

And she did it.

And then I was really surprised, I was happy and excited and at the same time, I was very

scared.

Paano yung when she gets hurt?

She doesn't get hurt naman.

She's pretty strong.

She was born ready.

Like baby pa lang siya.

Like kunwari na she stumbles, parang nasasalan niya yung ulo niya.

Parang natural.

May natural instinct na siya.

Do you get hurt sometimes when you're training, you're sparring, you're cooking?

Oh, you don't get hurt.

What does Jiu-Jitsu mean?

Gentle, right?

Yes.

It's gentle.

Gentle way of.

The gentle way of our art.

Yes, the gentle art.

Mahirap ba mag-train kapag anak mo?

I don't know.

It's okay.

She's easy to train.

She's very easy to train.

After school, she has wrestling classes, then she has Jiu-Jitsu after.

She does it perfectly so we have no problem because it comes from within niya.

It's not like something na, you have to do this, you have to do this, ganyan.

It's not like that.

I think the discipline comes when they sit down and listen to the coach.

We ask our students to sit down like a black belt so we have a role model to strive for.

Their goal is to become a black belt, eventually become a champion.

So yung listening to the coach, being able to perform the techniques, and then one thing

I noticed with the kids event that they developed is yung ability to take care of themselves

because like after class, parang naging ritual nila is to fold their own gis and then pack

their own things.

So yun, dun lumalabas yung discipline dun sa pag-practice nila ng martial art eh.

Kasi diba para maging world champion ka, hindi lang discipline, consistency, but it's

also the mindset.

Yes.

You should have a mindset of a champion.

You have the mindset of a champion because you are a champion yourself.

Paano nyo na i-instill yung mindset na yun with her?

Well, like for me, I make sure she's surrounded by people who have achieved and people who

do well.

It has to be an environment because I'm of the firm belief like if you hang out with

four losers, you're gonna be number five, right?

So you have to make sure that, you know.

You hang out with four champions so you're the fifth champion.

Something like that, yes.

Because you're two champions talagang.

Exactly.

So kung saan nyo nalagay, siya ang naging third world champion and youngest pa.

So totoo talaga yun, no?

Yes.

The environment is very, very influential.

Very, very important.

Sa upbringing ng isang bata.

And not just bata.

I think.

Anybody, I guess.

Anybody.

Any age also.

Ang laki ng nagagawa ng environment who you hang out with and who you spend time with.

Yes.

Parang you become.

True, true.

The people you hang out with.

Yeah.

You unconsciously absorb whatever they are, diba?

So.

Yes.

I guess also because her brothers also compete.

So may mga role models talaga siya sa bahay.

Not just us but also her siblings.

Paano nyo na-maintain yung balance sa bahay na like you're married, you're working together,

you're training your child, you're raising up a new baby?

Diba?

Paano yung balance na yun as a family?

For me, we enjoy each other's company naman.

So like that.

And then I guess we're all clingy that way because when I leave, I make sure that kasama sila all the time.

So it's that kind of thing.

We train together.

We hang out together.

And then.

We travel.

For sports talaga yung travel mostly namin eh.

What do you like most about training?

The games.

The games.

What are the games?

Sometimes we have to line up and do push-ups and then ten push-ups and jumping jacks.

It's like a race.

It's a race, yeah.

What's the hardest?

Nothing.

Oh, really?

Nothing?

Very good.

Everything is easy.

What is your dream?

Being a world champion, you already achieved it at a very young age, six years old.

When you grow up, what do you want to be?

Teach.

Yeah.

You want to teach what?

Jiu-jitsu.

You want to teach jiu-jitsu?

Yes.

To young girls.

Wow.

Pwede siya.

Certified siya.

May credential na para magturo.

What's one thing that you always teach your child?

Her sons also as well.

That you can only rely on yourself to get better.

So that's it.

Nobody else will be there to push you.

It all has to come from within.

That's basically it.

Especially with the boys.

No one else is going to save you or whatever.

It all has to come from you.

You determine how good you become.

You determine everything.

You.

But we're just here as guides.

Ikaw.

Me.

When they go on the stage, when they go out to compete, what they did behind the scenes,

it comes out there.

So they learn to overcome their fears, the pressure.

When they go out on the mat, when they know that they've worked hard, they put it all out there.

And then the results speak for itself.

When she wins and even when she loses, she's experienced loss.

How would you feel when you lose, baby?

You already lost before?

Did she cry?

No.

She would come back to us and say,

Mama, can I try again?

Masakit as a parent.

But seeing her na parang hindi siya.

Hindi naman siya disheartened.

Hindi naman siya disheartened.

Pero alam niyo parang gusto pa niyang subukan ulit.

And she's willing to go back and try again.

So it teaches them resilience talaga.

And I think that's one thing that's important in a child's development.

Resilience talaga.

In this world.

Yes, in this world.

Diba?

Kaya nga nabasa ko yun eh.

Parang at a very young age, dapat daw yung mga bata,

pinapasok na sila sa sports kasi iba yung discipline, iba yung mindset.

And it teaches them how to regulate their emotions in handling disappointments.

True.

Because in sports naman or in any competition, you don't always win.

Losing is just part of the process getting there anyway.

The one time that she lost kasi I was unable to travel with her because he was abroad.

And then I was pregnant.

I was gonna give birth.

I was due.

But she really wanted to compete in Cebu.

So I had my sister go with her.

Sabi niya, nagpilit siya lang.

Mama, umiiyak siya.

If I don't go, I wanna compete.

I really wanna compete.

Please let me go.

So nakiusap ako sa kapatid ko.

Parang sige, samahan mo nga.

Nag-Cebu siya.

Samahan mo yung kapatid kong bunso.

Nung nag-compete siya, she didn't get what she wanted to go with.

But after it, sabi niya, Mama, it's okay.

I'm gonna try again next competition.

Saan niya nakuha yun?

Yung ganong attitude na sobrang niyang persistent.

Tsaka yung perseverance.

At a young age, five years old.

And she's a positive influence even in the gym.

Because like when her teammates lose and then they cry.

Parang siya nandun.

Parang, it's okay.

You know, I lost too.

And gana-gana niya.

You encourage.

You talk to the other girls like that, right?

But you encourage your friends.

Oh, that's nice.

What do you want people to know about Jiu-Jitsu?

About this sport?

Okay, this is a sport that anyone can do at any age.

And then, you can be equally as effective as, you know, as any strong guy.

Because it's all technique.

It's just technique, timing, and leverage.

If you master that, you'll be able to beat most.

And the thing is, you can be competitive in it.

You can just use it for exercise.

Or you can just use it to have fun.

So there's so many ways around it.

We have old students.

We have really young students.

We have guys who are, you know, working during the day.

They just, they go there to de-stress.

It's a martial art literally for anyone and everyone.

Anong age pwede mag-start mag-Jiu-Jitsu?

For formal lessons, about 4 years old, 5 years old.

Until what age?

Until, the founder of Jiu-Jitsu, the one who taught me, si Helio Gracie, was training until he was 90.

He was training until the week he died.

Meron bang, like, routine, daily routine ang mga, a family of champions?

When it's comp season, we follow a schedule.

But when it's not comp season, when it's off season, we train, what, 2 to 4 hours a day lang.

Everyday yan?

Yeah, it's also fun for us kasi.

Because if it's your passion, it doesn't feel like work at all, di ba?

Exactly.

So si Aiel, she trains 2 to 4 hours?

Yes, she does wrestling first, then she does Jiu-Jitsu after.

And sometimes it's both classes of Jiu-Jitsu.

What if she's sleepy? Kasi di ba toddler? 2 years old? May nap time pa yun?

No, nung 2 years old to 3, yun yung mga parang 30 minutes lang siyang mag-training.

Tapos aalis siya.

Tapos nung nag-4 na siya, dun lang talaga humaba yung attention span.

Kasi when they're 2 and 3, you can't make the class more than an hour or more than 30 minutes actually.

Kasi yun, they'll wander off eh. So you make it, yeah.

Do you train everyday now?

Yes.

Ah, now really? After school?

Yes.

How long do you train everyday?

For 4 hours.

For hours?

Yeah.

You don't get bored? You don't get tired? You don't get hurt when you're training?

You like it when you're training?

All of our kids are national champions. We produced the most champions in Asia already.

So we're the largest team also now in Asia. We're bigger than China, Japan, in the Philippines.

We have 33 gyms here. So we're a lot.

Parang after pandemic kasi, our team, we focused on the kids program na talaga. Especially galing tayong pandemic.

So talagang nag-boom talaga yung kids program kasi all the kids were cooped up during the pandemic.

So when everything opened up, they allowed gyms to operate.

All of the kids just came pouring in. And yun nga, we have the largest kids program in the Philippines.

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.

Just the 200s around their age.

So marami na po talagang nagtitrain na bata.

We have a lot of little girls. And our little girls do really well. We have girls who are undefeated.

Ah, really?

All ages.

So if I get more funding for them, I can bring them around the world also.

To compete?

Yeah. Because, you know, there are so many girls na.

Like her age, a little bit older, who are really, really good.

And then we have the parent support also, which is very important.

Very important. I think that that's what makes a champion.

When the parents are behind a child.

True, true.

Thank you.