Training every year at 10th Planet Jiu-jitsu Hollywood California from 2006 - 2008 for 3 weeks per tour, coming in contact with MMA Legends, Randy ‘The Natural’ Couture, Bas Rutten. Trained also with Karo ‘The Heat’ Parisian, Chris Reilly, Amir Rahnavardi and all of Eddie’s top Brown belts, such as Scott Epstein, Brent Littel, , Alder Hampel, Joe Rogan, Alex (4sakensoul), Sean Bollinger, Conor Heun, and many other talented, Professional, Mixed Martial Artists in the MMA/UFC arena.
Frank Barca , of the Precision Martial Arts Academy in Melbourne, was recently awarded, 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Affiliation by Eddie Bravo, during his 3 rd trip to LA training at the world famous Legends MMA gym in Hollywood California. Frank has been Eddie Bravo’s 1st generation student since 2006.
Frank was also graded by Eddie Bravo and is now teaching 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu in Melbourne.
Frank Barca was the 1st person outside of America and North America to be licensed to teach authentic 10th Planet Rubber guard, Twister and Half-guard attacks, learnt directly from Eddie Bravo.
The Affiliation is based on mastering 75% of the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu system, minimum of 4 years in grappling and proven mat sparring application of the world famous 10th Planet JJ system.
Frank opened 10th planet JJ Melbourne officially on the 1st December 2008, and now has made it available for anyone who wants to benefit from Eddie Bravo’s unique, no gi approach to submission grappling.
Frank has this year alone, traveled extensively throughout Australia from teaching 10th Planet JJ seminars. All of which were a great success and proven to be extremely popular among submission fighters and the MMA community.
Frank continues to push forward training his students each week and applying Eddie Bravo’s proven teaching/training curriculum making it a very efficient delivery system in order to maximize your results and add venom to your game faster than ever! All warm up drills (5 tactics at a time) are run for 2 x weeks straight in every class making it an extremely practical and functional method proven to shape results more accelerated than ever.
Frank has world wide support from all affiliates 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu under Master Eddie Bravo’s guidance including Ari Bolden and Dan Rizzuto from Canada, Scott Epstein, Conor Heun, and all of Master Eddie's top purple and browns belts at 10th Planet JJ headquarters and many other top ranked instructors from many states throughout America and North America. Frank regularly is in contact with them making for certain, that quality stays in check, updating the evolution taking place weekly in Hollywood where Master Eddie teaches daily.
‘All I ever wanted, was to develop enough great Jiu Jitsu fighters around me so I could maximize my training potential.. I had no idea it was going to be this huge…’ The choice is yours , get informed and get training NOW!!! 10th Planet JJ Melbourne The revolution has begun!
Joshua Pecastaing
Josh started his martial arts journey by studying and training in Zen Do Kai Karate under Sensei Frank Barca.After training full time, Josh was awarded with his Shodan Ho rank (Black Belt) in 2000. Throughout this time Josh also developed his skills in Muay Thai Kickboxing training at BJC.
For the past 10 years Josh has been studying Koryu-Uchinadi Kenpo Jutsu under Sensei Frank Barca and in 2006 received his 2nd Degree black belt.
Josh began his Jiu Jitsu training in 2006 and has been fortunate enough to travel to Los Angeles once in 2006 and again 2009 to train with Eddie Bravo and his top guys at the 10th Platen Jiu Jitsu Head Quarters.On his second visit to Legends Gym Josh was awarded his Blue Belt in the 10th Planet system.
Josh is a fully qualified Personal Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Coach and runs a personal fitness and MMA training business.Ultimate Fitness Connection, operating out of Joreigo Fitness in Tullamarine and Frank Barca’s Precision Martial Arts Academy in Coburg, specialises in Kick Boxing, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, Boxing
·Qualified Personal trainer
·Strength & Conditioning Coach
·Black Belt – Zen Do Kai
·2nd Degree Black Belt Koryu-Uchinadi Kenpo Jutsu
·Blue Belt 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu
Jeremy Dooley
Jeremy started his martial arts journey in 1995 learning Goju-Ryu Karate under Sensei Herve` Vengta. A natural in Martial Arts, Jeremy was awarded his Shodan Ho (Black Belt) in a shorter timeframe than most. He also spends a portion of every year training Muay Thai in Thailand at Fairtex Bangplee in order to become a well rounded Martial Artist.
Jeremy spent a large chunk of 2009 training at 10th Planet HQ in LA and was graded as a Blue Belt by Eddie Bravo during this time. Jeremy is also the fastest student of 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu worldwide to receive this ranking.
A healthy mind and body is important to Jeremy, he is a fully qualified personal trainer specializing in strength, cardio fitness and fat loss. Jeremy is also an extremely experienced and highly sought after youth and corporate facilitator having worked with groups ranging from the Juvenile Justice system to some of Australia’s most successful CEO’s.
His unique combination of talents and experience allows him to be an extremely challenging Martial Artist as well as being an insightful and thorough instructor.