5校から7校へ:OCTAの最新拠点を任されたMichael Costa
Starring
Luiz Costaはブラジリアン柔術の黒帯で、ビジネスパートナーのGreg CarrascoとともにOCTAを創設し、ホルトン地域で7拠点まで成長させました。7つの道場に同時にいることはできないため、今の仕事はそれを任せられるプロフェッサーを選ぶことです。空手の黒帯も持っていますが、Alexには「今はもう練習していない」と話しています。
Michael Costaは茶帯で、撮影の2週間前にオープンしたOCTAの7校目を運営するプロフェッサーです。練習歴13年、キッズ指導歴4年で、拠点を運営しながら今も試合に出ています。1型糖尿病を抱えており、試合前のキャンプ中の管理についても率直に語っています。締めている帯は父親のものです。
About the Gym
OCTA Jiu-Jitsu is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu organization in Ontario's Halton region, founded by Professor Luiz Costa with business partner Greg Carrasco. It runs seven locations. Oakville North, the newest, opened two weeks before this episode was filmed and is led by Michael Costa.
The Oakville North schedule runs gi fundamentals for all levels, open mat most weeknights, and a full kids ladder—Little Octopus for the youngest, then Kids and Pre-teens groups. New students start with two free semi-private intro classes. Roughly 300 kids train in the Oakville HQ program.
Luiz keeps every school inside about an hour's drive, close enough that the locations can support each other. OCTA runs on Gymdesk across all seven, including the sites that list each location's class times.
📍 Address: 83 Loyalist Trail, Unit 5, Oakville, ON L6H 3R4, Canada
📞 Phone: 647-822-4653
Summary
Alex last visited OCTA Jiu-Jitsu when Luiz Costa had five schools around Oakville. He came back to seven. The newest sits in Oakville North under ceilings high enough that Alex says it feels like standing outside, and it had been open two weeks.
Michael Costa runs it. He's been training thirteen years and teaching kids for four, and the brown belt he wears is his father's. Luiz passed his other belts down as he got promoted, the way his own school did it. The brown one he kept. The other new school is inside an LA Fitness in Cambridge, 1,200 square feet of mat, a pilot OCTA started by cold-calling a VP. Luiz says he wants ten schools eventually. Right now he wants to consolidate.
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