Gisele Bundchen Does Jiu-Jitsu With Pal Joaquim Valente In Video Before Costa Rica Vacation

Gisele Bundchen is simply a unit to beryllium reckoned with. On Saturday, Nov. 12, the 42-year-old supermodel — who precocious divorced from Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s backmost husband, Tom Brady, 45 — was spotted retired to meal with her jiu-jitsu instructor, Joaquim Valente, 34, astatine Koji edifice successful Costa Rica. However, 9 months earlier photos were published by Page Six of their casual meal date, which included Gisele’s 2 children Benjamin, 12, and Vivienne, 9, she shared a video with her 20 cardinal Instagram of the 2 sparring successful a affable jiu-jitsu lucifer astatine the Valente household grooming installation successful Miami, Florida.

In the caption to the video, which has gotten implicit 430,000 likes since it was posted successful February, Gisele wrote, “I judge the much tools we person successful our toolbox the better. I consciousness stronger, much confidence, and empowered since I started practicing self-defense. I consciousness it’s an important accomplishment for all, but particularly for america women. Thank you @ValenteBrothers for being awesome teachers and for making grooming truthful overmuch fun. I americium looking guardant to support improving. Let’s go!”

In the video, Gisele displayed her superior Jiu-Jitsu skills. In changeable aft shot, the quality could beryllium seen tossing Joaquim around. In 1 shot, she adjacent flipped him upside down and, successful different shot, she got him into a headlock. In the full video, the 2 looked affable with each other, arsenic she was smiling and laughing portion taking him down. So, who precisely is Joaquim? As HollywoodLife reported, Joaquim is simply a Miami-based martial arts adept that comes from a household of Jūjutsu practitioners. According to a Valente household website, helium is besides well-educated and is portion proprietor of the Valente household installation successful Miami, wherever Gisele had been surviving with her ex-husband since 2020. 

However, Gisele’s relationship with Joaquim started earlier the 2 were captured sparring connected video. In an interrogation with Dust magazine, Gisele revealed that Joaquim had been teaching her kids the athletics earlier she got involved. “I person ever been a seeker and funny idiosyncratic who ever wants to dive deeper. It’s really due to the fact that of my lad that I met Joaquim. I person a person who told maine astir the Valente brothers and their martial creation school, and since I wanted to steer my astir teenage lad successful the close direction, I thought helium mightiness beryllium funny successful it,” Gisele said successful the interrogation with Dust.

She added, “Initially, I wasn’t adjacent considering it for myself, to beryllium honorable with you. But, erstwhile I bought [Ben] into the archetypal class, and started talking with Joaquim, I realized it was overmuch much than self-defense.” In the article, Gisele revealed that her daughter, Vivian, 9, besides got into Jiu-Jitsu. After the photos of Gisele and Joaquim went viral, E! news reported that the 2 were not dating. “Any proposition that Gisele’s narration with Joaquim Valente is thing different than strictly platonic and nonrecreational is conscionable ridiculous.  This is not conscionable wholly false—it’s absurd,” a root told the outlet — adding that the 2 of them were joined by a ample radical of radical that were seemingly cropped retired of the photos.  HollywoodLife reached retired to a rep for Gisele regarding her meal with Joaquim but has not heard back.