14 Mar Spring Break Closure due to Novel Corona Virus

Hello Team and Friends,

It is a tough day.  We have no cases to speak of, and no one we know, knows anyone that is currently sick.

Although this situation is in our city, and our province, country, region.  It is in fact affecting the entire world.

We sent out an email yesterday, and made numerous social media posts regarding our commitment to protecting our students, instructors and community, to decrease community spread of the corona virus at this time.  We have decided to close all classes from Friday afternoon, March 14th 2020- March 29th 2020.  At that time we will re-assess the current climate and numbers associated with keeping everyone as healthy as possible.  Most people who get the corona virus, will not be overwhelmingly sick, but those most at risk, and some who are not in the riskiest group will be quite sick and will require hospital care.

There is an amazing effort from the entire Gracie University organization, to save our schools, and to keep the training available to the students from home, and as soon as re-opening is smart, we will be rolling out a unique and safe way for all students to be able to practice again and improve.  In the meantime, watch Rener’s video outlining the basic idea behind the plan.  We have a number of documents and options that we will be emailing out to each and every one of our student’s and families in the coming hours and days, as well as this blog will be updated more often as we are not able to go on to the mats and serve our people the way we are used to.