Jason Alexander Gagnon
Starting jiu-jitsu at 21, Jason Gagnon became a Cobrinha black belt and built Genesis Martial Arts with two partners in Abbotsford.
Biography
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IBJJF original event results 207.(opens in a new tab)
Gagnon won adult male brown-belt featherweight at the2013American Nationals for Alliance.
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IBJJF original event results 301.(opens in a new tab)
He repeated as adult male brown-belt featherweight American National champion in2014, representing Alliance.
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IBJJF original event results 216.(opens in a new tab)
He won adult male brown-belt featherweight at the2013Asian Championship for Alliance Los Angeles.
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BJJ Heroes, Jason Gagnon.(opens in a new tab)
Jason Alexander Gagnon was born in Vancouver in 1986 and grew up in Western Canada, eventually settling in Coquitlam.
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After playing baseball, football and rugby, Gagnon’s interest in MMA and a friend’s dare led him to start jiu-jitsu in2007, aged21.
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His first coaches were Don Whitefield and Shawn Albrecht at West Coast BJJ.
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He began visiting Cobrinha’s Los Angeles academy in2011, then switched team allegiance in2012 after receiving his brown belt from Whitefield, seeking a more professional competition environment.
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Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles awarded Gagnon his black belt in November2015.
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Paul Esau, The journey never ends, Abbotsford News22November2014.(opens in a new tab)
Gagnon, Lloyd Handy and Rory Bjarnason bought the Abbotsford gym that became Genesis Martial Arts, after Gagnon and Handy trained at Cobrinha’s Los Angeles academy.
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Handy first sponsored Gagnon’s tournament travel before proposing the gym purchase, with Bjarnason joining as another investor.
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Genesis was modelled on Cobrinha’s academy, including its mat colours, pre-class greetings and approach to teaching jiu-jitsu.
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The2014profile described Gagnon running and cleaning the gym, training and coaching its classes.
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Gagnon described jiu-jitsu as an honest test of learning through resistance and defeat, in which a person can tap and begin again.
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Genesis Martial Arts, Instructors.(opens in a new tab)
Genesis Martial Arts lists Gagnon as its owner and head instructor, teaching at its Abbotsford academy under the Cobrinha affiliation.
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Ben Lypka, Abbotsford’s Jason Gagnon excels in Europe,18December2016.(opens in a new tab)
In2016, Gagnon combined a three-week European competition tour with teaching seminars in Paris and Berlin.
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That tour produced adult black-belt featherweight golds in Madrid and Berlin and silver in Paris; the report said his aim was qualification points for the2017Worlds.
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IBJJF original event results 232.(opens in a new tab)
At the2014European Championship he took silver in adult male brown-belt featherweight, representing Alliance Los Angeles.
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IBJJF original event results 572.(opens in a new tab)
Gagnon won bronze in male Master1 black-belt featherweight at the2016World Master Championship for Alliance.
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IBJJF original event results 726.(opens in a new tab)
He won another male Master1 black-belt featherweight bronze at the2017World Master Championship, representing Alliance.
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