# Pato ✕ Anti Sensei

> Pato (Patricio Alejandro Reyes Vergara), known as the Anti Sensei, is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and grappling coach based in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. He co-founded Arkain Grappling in Saigon and travels to teach seminars, private lessons and academy consulting across Asia, Europe and the Americas. Gyms book him through WhatsApp.

- Full name: Patricio Alejandro Reyes Vergara
- Also known as: Pato, Pato Anti Sensei, The Anti Sensei, Patricio Reyes Vergara, Patricio Reyes
- Role: Jiu-Jitsu and grappling coach
- Rank: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt
- Based in: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Gym: Arkain Grappling (co-founder)
- Languages: English, Spanish
- Website: https://www.antisensei.com/ (English, Spanish and Vietnamese)
- Book him: WhatsApp https://wa.me/84354257643?text=Hi%20Pato%2C%20I%27d%20like%20to%20book%20a%20seminar.

## About (in Pato's words)

My story is one of teaching and training. It started with karate as a very small kid. As a teenager I went through kendo, kempo karate, judo and sanda, then arrived at a mix of Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Vale Tudo and Luta Livre.

I moved to Santiago for better training, travelled to Brazil three times to train, coached in Hong Kong for four years, and earned my black belt back in Chile.

Today I run Arkain Grappling in Saigon with two co-founders, and teach seminars and consult for academies abroad.

## What he offers gyms and coaches

I don't just come in for one class. I look at what your academy does well and where it fails, and help you get better at both.

- **Seminars** (for your students): A focused block on one theme, built around the level of the room on the day.
- **Consulting** (for your academy): An analysis of your academy's fails and strong points from a Jiu-Jitsu point of view, and a plan to get better at both.
- **Privates** (for you and your coaches): One-to-one sessions and knowledge-sharing with head coaches.

### Example seminar topics

- **Building classes that fit the room**: For coaches and owners. How to read a group and plan a class around the people who actually showed up.
- **Constraints-led training**: How we use CLA at Arkain: games and constraints that teach the position without a lecture.
- **Guard: playing from the bottom on purpose**: Retention, frames and the first sweeps that make guard a place to attack from.
- **Passing that survives resistance**: Simple passing systems that hold up against people trying to stop you.

### Where he has taught and trained

- Vietnam: Saigon, Hanoi, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Dalat
- Chile: All around the country
- Cambodia: Phnom Penh
- Thailand: Seminars
- Hong Kong: Kowloon Jiu-Jitsu, Inglorious Grapplers and more
- Spain: Barcelona
- USA: California

## Background

- EARLY YEARS · Temuco · Many martial arts · STUDENT: Karate as a small kid. Kendo, kempo karate, judo and sanda as a teenager. Then Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Vale Tudo and Luta Livre.
- Santiago · Victor Zuñiga · MMA COACH FOR BEGINNERS: Moved to the capital for better training. Blue belt in six months, purple belt a year later.
- 3 TRIPS · Brazil - São Paulo · Cicero Costha & Marcellinho Sousa · TRAINING CAMPS: Three to four months at a time at one of the best schools in the world, at its peak, while many champions trained there.
- 2016 – 2020 · Hong Kong · Kowloon Jiu-Jitsu, Inglorious Grapplers and more · NOON-CLASS COACH: One of the biggest academies in Hong Kong. Four years under world-class competitor Viking Wong. Brown belt in 2020.
- 2020 · Chile · Jonathan Ortega · COACH: Back during the pandemic. Black belt under Jonathan Ortega, one of the most respected black belts and MMA coaches in Chile.
- Saigon · Saigon Sports Club · HEAD COACH, JIU-JITSU & GRAPPLING: Invited six months after black belt. Led the Jiu-Jitsu program and grappling structure for close to a year.
- NOW · Saigon · Arkain Grappling · CO-FOUNDER & COACH: Three-plus years building one of the best schools in the country. Also coached MMA fighters for Lion Championship.

## Lineage

- Jonathan Ortega (BLACK BELT)
- Viking Wong (BROWN BELT)
- Victor Zuñiga (SANTIAGO YEARS)

Before Jiu-Jitsu: karate, kendo, kempo, judo, sanda, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Vale Tudo, Luta Livre.

## Links

- [Patricio Reyes Vergara: the vision behind Jiu-Jitsu](https://bjjasia.com/2018/07/19/patricio-reyes-vergara-the-vision-behind-jiu-jitsu-in/): press feature
- [Video 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aag71caFFB0): Pato teaching
- [Video 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utLkI6_xhDo): Pato teaching