The powerful ‘Google’ company which has its offices located in Mountain View, Silicon Valley (California) has been offering BJJ classes for their employees!
The Google headquarters are called the Googleplex and offer awesome perks like free shuttle bus service from around the Bay Area (with WiFi!), on-site doctors and generous new-parent policies to Café Jia (which serves Asian food) and Café 150 (which sources all its ingredients from within 150 miles of the Googleplex).
The point of offering all these perks on campus are to make working long hours and practically living at work bearable. Many employees sometimes work 16 hours days for months..
The BJJ training is taught by Milton Bastos from Institute of Martial Arts in California.
The idea was for the employees to benefit from all the positive aspects of BJJ training: self defense, fitness, stress relief, weight loss, social interaction, camarederie etc..
Milton wrote on his facebook about the success of the first class:
Class at google today reach full capacity … I guess we will need more mat space to attend more people… Thank you all who joined the class.
Picture of the first training session:
Photo: Milton Bastos
Google is not the only big multi-national company to offer BJJ.
Facebook and Linkedin also have BJJ classes in their offices!
LinKedIn Employees Enjoy Regular Jiu-Jitsu Training Sessions
Google BJJ coach Bastos stated that he plans to organize a Google vs Facebook BJJ tournament:
“Actually, there is a plan to do something like that. Facebook has a team, too, and the guys who train there, they’ve competed before. So they’re probably going to want us to do something like that. Maybe like a Google against Facebook.”
Google and Facebook also have to wear custom company Gis and Rashguards:
