Head Coach · Rival Jiu-Jitsu
Jared Deubel
Head Coach. BJJ Black Belt under JT Torres. ADCC Pedigree.
About Jared
Black belt under JT Torres. Built for real grappling.
Jared Deubel is the head coach and founder of Rival Jiu-Jitsu in Waldwick, NJ. He is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt promoted by JT Torres, one of the most decorated grapplers of his generation. Jared has been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for over 13 years. He has trained at Essential Jiu-Jitsu under JT Torres for over 7 years, including the years leading up to and through his black belt promotion. He runs the academy day-to-day and is on the mat for nearly every adult and kids class, leading instruction personally rather than handing it off.
JT Torres is a two-time ADCC World Champion and the founder of the Essential Class, a methodology that strips Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu down to its highest-percentage positions and concepts. Training under JT for over 7 years gave Jared a system built for real grappling, clean entries, tight control, and submissions that work against resisting opponents. That system shapes the way every class at Rival is structured.
Before stepping on a Jiu-Jitsu mat, Jared came up through wrestling and judo. That base shows in how he teaches takedowns, top control, and scrambles, the parts of grappling many pure BJJ academies underemphasize. Students learn how to start a match standing, how to ride and pin from top, and how to recover when an exchange goes sideways. The result is a rounded grappler, not just a guard player.
Jared opened Rival Jiu-Jitsu on October 12, 2024 because Bergen County deserved a serious, modern academy with championship-level instruction and a culture that respects the people walking through the door. Waldwick gave him the space to build it the right way: clean facility, structured curriculum, and a training environment that takes the work seriously without taking itself too seriously.
A class with Jared is technical, methodical, and free of ego. He breaks positions down into clear steps, drills them with intent, then turns the room loose to apply what was taught in live rounds. New students get patient guidance from day one. Advanced students get the detail and pressure-testing they need to keep leveling up. Everyone trains hard, everyone goes home in one piece, and everyone learns something they didn't know when they walked in.
The Line
LINEAGE
Jared has trained in two parallel branches sharing the same Mitsuyo Maeda to Helio Gracie trunk. JT Torres promoted him to black belt at Essential Jiu-Jitsu, and Marcelo Garcia shaped his competitive game in New York City.
Method
What you'll learn from Jared
01
Technique-first, not strength-first
Rival is built on the idea that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu rewards the better grappler, not the bigger one. Jared teaches angles, frames, and timing before he ever asks a student to muscle through a position. That is what lets a 140-pound new student survive, and eventually beat, a 200-pound athlete who is relying on raw strength.
02
Position before submission
Submissions are the finish, not the plan. Every class works the chain, pass to control, control to attack, attack to submission. Students learn to earn dominant positions first, because a tap from a bad position is luck, and a tap from a dominant position is Jiu-Jitsu.
03
BJJ as a problem-solving system
Jared treats grappling as a thinking sport. The goal is not to memorize 200 techniques. It is to learn the principles that connect them, so a student can solve a problem on the mat they have never seen before. That is how a hobbyist becomes a competitor, and how a competitor becomes a coach.
Room culture is simple: no ego, every belt welcome, hard but kind.
"Hard work, works"
- JT Torres, 2x ADCC World Champion
Students & Competitions
Notable Results
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FAQ
Common Questions
Train with Jared
One mat. Real instruction. Step on it and find out.