Coach Ashley De Oliveira is a local to Tampa Florida. She began BJJ in Rob Kahn's Gracie Tampa network, training under Tony Way & Brittany Way of Gracie Palm Harbor. There she built her strong foundation and earned her purple belt. Training primarily in nogi BJJ originally, as a blue belt Ashley began cross training in the gi and quickly fell in love with it. She is now a third degree brown belt under Professor Paulo De Oliveira at Primata Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and has trained BJJ for 11 years. Ashley is an owner and lead instructor at Primata BJJ with 9 years of previous career experience as an educator.