Gisele Bundchen & Joaquim Valente Spar In Jiu-Jitsu Video – Hollywood Life

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Gisele Bundchen is a drive to be reckoned with. On Saturday, Nov. 12, the 42-year-old supermodel — who just lately divorced from Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s quarterback husband, Tom Brady, 45 — was noticed out to dinner together with her jiu-jitsu teacher, Joaquim Valente, 34, at Koji restaurant in Costa Rica. However, 9 months earlier than images have been printed by Page Six of their informal dinner date, which included Gisele’s two kids Benjamin, 12, and Vivienne, 9, she shared a video together with her 20 million Instagram of the 2 sparring in a pleasant jiu-jitsu match on the Valente household coaching facility in Miami, Florida.

In the caption to the video, which has gotten over 430,000 likes because it was posted in February, Gisele wrote, “I believe the more tools we have in our toolbox the better. I feel stronger, more confidence, and empowered since I started practicing self-defense. I feel it’s an important skill for all, but especially for us women. Thank you @ValenteBrothers for being awesome teachers and for making training so much fun. I am looking forward to keep improving. Let’s go!”

In the video, Gisele displayed her severe Jiu-Jitsu expertise. In shot after shot, the wonder may very well be seen tossing Joaquim round. In one shot, she even flipped him the wrong way up and, in one other shot, she acquired him right into a headlock. In your complete video, the 2 regarded pleasant with one another, as she was smiling and laughing whereas taking him down. So, who precisely is Joaquim? As HollywoodLife reported, Joaquim is a Miami-based martial arts skilled that comes from a household of Jūjutsu practitioners. According to a Valente household web site, he’s additionally well-educated and is an element proprietor of the Valente household facility in Miami, the place Gisele had been residing together with her ex-husband since 2020. 

However, Gisele’s friendship with Joaquim began earlier than the 2 have been captured sparring on video. In an interview with Dust journal, Gisele revealed that Joaquim had been educating her children the game earlier than she acquired concerned. “I have always been a seeker and curious person who always wants to dive deeper. It’s actually because of my son that I met Joaquim. I have a friend who told me about the Valente brothers and their martial art school, and since I wanted to steer my almost teenage son in the right direction, I thought he might be interested in it,” Gisele stated within the interview with Dust.

She added, “Initially, I wasn’t even considering it for myself, to be honest with you. But, when I bought [Ben] into the first class, and started talking with Joaquim, I realized it was much more than self-defense.” In the article, Gisele revealed that her daughter, Vivian, 9, additionally acquired into Jiu-Jitsu. After the images of Gisele and Joaquim went viral, E! information reported that the 2 weren’t relationship. “Any suggestion that Gisele’s relationship with Joaquim Valente is anything other than strictly platonic and professional is just ridiculous.  This is not just completely false—it’s absurd,” a supply advised the outlet — including that the 2 of them have been joined by a big group of people who have been seemingly cropped out of the images.  HollywoodLife reached out to a rep for Gisele concerning her dinner with Joaquim, however we have now not heard again but.