Head Jiu-Jitsu Instructor Co-Owner - Jason Campbell
Brazilian / Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt under Pedro Sauer
- Awarded Brown Belt in 2021 from Pedro Sauer
- Awarded Purple Belt in 2018 from Dennis Hayes/John Burkholder (Pedro Sauer Black Belts)
- Awarded Blue Belt directly from Royce Gracie in 2006
- Ko Setumi Jiu-Jitsu purple belt under Jeremy Bradley
Jason is another life-long resident of the MOV and is a K9 Handler with the Belpre Police Dept. Jason's children, Gabby and Phoenix, both train at the academy as well. In addition, Jason holds the following certification:
- Level 2 Certified Instructor in Pedro Sauer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Association
- C4C PJJ Level 4 Instructor
- Gracie Survival Tactics (GST) Instructor
- Sauer Tactical Advisory Group (STAG) Law Enforcement Aggression De-escalation (L.E.A.D.S.) Instructor
- Ohio Law Enforcement Scenario Based Training Instructor (STEP)
- Simunition Certified
- SORAT (Single Officer Response to Active Threat) Instructor
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Trained Officer
- ALICE Active Shooter Response Training Instructor
- OPOTA Impact and Chemical Weapons Instructor
Head Jiu-Jitsu Instructor Co-Owner - Mike Stump
Brazilian / Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt under Pedro Sauer
Mike began training American Jiujitsu in 1996 under Sensei Neil Locke. This is also where Mike met his wife Shawna who along with his children Chloe and Colton who also train at PJJA.
- Awarded Brown belt in 2021 from Pedro Sauer
- Awarded Purple belt in 2017 Dennis Hayes/John Burkholder (Pedro Sauer Black Belts)
- Awarded his Blue belt in 2003 from Royce Gracie
- Level 2 Certified Instructor in Pedro Sauer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Association
- C4C PJJ Level 4 Instructor
- Gracie Survival Tactics (GST) Instructor
- Sauer Tactical Advisory Group (STAG) Law Enforcement Aggression De-escalation (L.E.A.D.S.) Instructor
- Ohio Law Enforcement Defensive Tactics Instructor
- Received his Black belt in Ko Setumi Jiujitsu in 2007 from Sensei Jeremy Bradley.
While on active duty after 9/11, Mike began training BJJ under Professor Butch Hiles in 2001. Along with Sensei Jeremy Bradley, Mike opened a Royce Gracie affiliate bringing the first official Gracie Jiu-Jitsu school to the Mid Ohio Valley.
Mike is an U.S. Army & Air Force veteran with 20+ years of Law Enforcement experience. He is a life-long resident of the MOV and Chief of the Belpre Police Dept as well as a member of the Washington County Ohio Special Response Team (SRT).
Assistant Adult & Kids Jiu-Jitsu Instructor - Andy Jackson
Brazilian / Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt
USJA Shodan (Judo 1st Degree Black Belt)
Japanese Jiu-Jitsu Shodan (1st Degree Black Belt)
- Awarded Brown Belt in 2021 from Kristen DeBruycker / Pedro Sauer
- Awarded Purple Belt in 2018 from Dennis Hayes / John Burkholder (Pedro Sauer Black Belts)
- Awarded Blue Belt directly from Royce Gracie in 2006
- Awarded Judo Black Belt in 2002
- Level 1 Certified Instructor in Pedro Sauer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Association
Andy is a Navy veteran and has been a life-long resident of the MOV. He is a dedicated student and instructor for the academy and has played an integral role in developing and leading the kids and adults jiu-jitsu programs.
About Pedro Sauer
Head of Pedro Sauer Jiu-Jitsu Association
- 8th Degree Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Coral Belt - Pedro Sauer
Pedro Sauer was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where from an early age, he began training in the martial arts. At age five, he began boxing and later took up judo and taekwondo. At age 15, however, his friend Rickson Gracie, invited him to train jiu-jitsu with his younger brother, Royler, who at the time was only nine years old. The outcome of this experience convinced him that jiu-jitsu was the most effective of all the martial arts, and he began training the very next day.
His training under both Helio and Rickson took place during a time when jiu-jitsu was making its crucial transition as an obscure Brazilian art to a worldwide martial arts phenomenon. Pedro worked towards a double major (Economics and Business Administration) in college, and took post graduation courses at Fundacao Getulio Vargas. He worked in Brazil as a stockbroker for eleven years before deciding to move to the United States and pursue a career teaching jiu-jitsu.
With Rorion Gracie leading the exodus in 1990, Pedro was part of the first generation of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructors and fighters that moved to the United States to reveal the art of BJJ to the world. He lived in California with Rickson Gracie and trained daily with the Gracie brothers (Rickson, Rorion, and Royce), their father, Helio Gracie, their cousin, Renzo Gracie and the Machado Brothers, as well as many others. In December of that same year, he moved to Utah where he began pioneering Gracie jiu-jitsu in the American southwest and eventually started the Pedro Sauer Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Association, which is now one of the largest and most respected Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Associations in the world today with well over 100 academies under his guidance.
In 2006 Master Sauer relocated to Northern Virginia to set up the world headquarters for the PSBJJA in Herndon, Virginia.