Protect Early
Strengthening safer habits, clearer boundaries, and steadier choices early.
Building children and adolescents who are
The 1911 Method is a prevention-first Jiu-Jitsu program that helps children and adolescents build protective self-efficacy, safer choices, and practical help-seeking skills.
Support Direction
Using Jiu-Jitsu to support discipline, self-control, and safer direction.
Support Communities
Partnering with trusted institutions that help guide and protect young people.
What the Program Builds
The overview starts with outcomes, not technique. The method is designed to strengthen the protective capacities children and adolescents can rehearse, retain, and apply beyond the mat.
- Protective self-regulation
- Boundary clarity
- Decision stability
- Protective leadership
The 5 domains
The method is organized across five protective domains
Regulate, recognize, choose, move, and seek help. The sequence is repeated until safer responses become more available under pressure. Hover or tap each domain to expand its focus.
11 steps across 5 domains
A curriculum that unfolds in clear, progressive stages
The full method spans 11 steps. The first three domains carry the main foundation, with the later domains expanding into environmental awareness, belonging, and protective leadership.
How Delivery Works
The point here is not enforcement. It is helping someone visualize how the program is delivered across ages, group structure, and repeated practice.
- Designed for ages 3 to 18, separated by developmental group
- No-Gi delivery prioritized so the mechanics transfer beyond the mat
- The cohort model uses one instructor with up to 9 participants in rotating triads
- Two participants engage while a third observes with prompts, then roles rotate
- The method follows the same sequence across age bands: regulate, recognize, choose, move, and seek help
Cohort example
In the cohort model, one instructor works with up to nine participants. Two are active in the exercise while a third observes under structured prompts. Then the roles rotate, combining physical rehearsal, guided observation, correction, and reflection in the same learning cycle.
Technical Delivery & Safety Oversight
The 1911 Method was designed by Andre Moraes and is delivered through a founder-led institutional model. Whole Champions works with trained cohort instructors, cohort-support personnel, and future Certified 1911 Institutional Instructors formed under Whole Champions standards, with black-belt technical supervision reserved for advanced calibration, Gi progression, competition-facing activity, and formal sport-rank functions.
The 1911 Method is an evidence-informed, prevention-first model grounded in research related to self-efficacy, executive function, emotional regulation, and structured martial-arts-based developmental training.
Any methodological hub is not intended to operate as an unrestricted public academy. It functions as a controlled operational base for instructor formation, live calibration, quality assurance, data oversight, and continuation pathways for eligible participants emerging from institutional cohorts.
How an Institutional Pilot Works
A pilot of the 1911 Method can run as an 8-week cycle or a 12-week standard cycle. Each site receives orientation, cohort setup, age-appropriate delivery, baseline assessment, guided progress documentation, and an end-of-cycle review. The pilot gives schools, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and community centers a practical way to evaluate the method in a real youth-serving environment before broader adoption.
Why Institutions Can Trust the Method
The 1911 Method is delivered with schools, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, after-school programs, and community-serving environments. Delivery is age-banded, non-clinical, safeguarding-centered, and structured around controlled small cohorts, guided observation, repeated practice, and documented protective-skill progression.
- Safeguarding-centered delivery
- Two-adult visibility standard
- Age-banded cohorts for children and adolescents
- Non-clinical prevention scope
- No diagnosis, therapy, or investigation
- Baseline and post-cycle progress documentation
- Instructor screening and technical oversight
- Controlled small-cohort structure
- De-identified reporting and quality review
Institutional Partnership Pathways
Whole Champions Jiu-Jitsu is a Texas nonprofit corporation serving institutions that want prevention-first Jiu-Jitsu for children and adolescents. We are ready to support partnership conversations, pilot planning, host-site setup, and controlled program delivery.