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

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

Within the caption to the video, which has gotten over 430,000 likes because it was posted in February, Gisele wrote, “I imagine the extra instruments now we have in our toolbox the higher. I really feel stronger, extra confidence, and empowered since I began working towards self-defense. I really feel it’s an necessary ability for all, however particularly for us girls. Thanks @ValenteBrothers for being superior lecturers and for making coaching a lot enjoyable. I’m trying ahead to maintain enhancing. Let’s go!”

Within the video, Gisele displayed her critical Jiu-Jitsu abilities. In shot after shot, the wonder could possibly be seen tossing Joaquim round. In a single shot, she even flipped him the other way up and, in one other shot, she obtained him right into a headlock. In your complete video, the 2 seemed 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. In line with a Valente household web site, he’s additionally well-educated and is a component proprietor of the Valente household facility in Miami, the place Gisele had been dwelling along with her ex-husband since 2020. 

Nonetheless, Gisele’s friendship with Joaquim began earlier than the 2 had been captured sparring on video. In an interview with Mud journal, Gisele revealed that Joaquim had been instructing her children the game earlier than she obtained concerned. “I’ve at all times been a seeker and curious one who at all times needs to dive deeper. It’s really due to my son that I met Joaquim. I’ve a buddy who informed me concerning the Valente brothers and their martial artwork college, and since I wished to steer my nearly teenage son in the precise route, I assumed he could be serious about it,” Gisele stated within the interview with Mud.

She added, “Initially, I wasn’t even contemplating it for myself, to be sincere with you. However, once I purchased [Ben] into the primary class, and began speaking with Joaquim, I noticed it was far more than self-defense.” Within the article, Gisele revealed that her daughter, Vivian, 9, additionally obtained 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 something aside from strictly platonic {and professional} is simply ridiculous.  This isn’t simply fully false—it’s absurd,” a supply informed the outlet — including that the 2 of them had been joined by a big group of those who had been seemingly cropped out of the images.  HollywoodLife reached out to a rep for Gisele concerning her dinner with Joaquim however has not heard again.