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Jojo Aguilar

Teaches at Los Angeles City College

Jojo Aguilar is a modern day Renaissance man with a broad range of experience from working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to taking hits and falls as a professional Hollywood stuntman in films like New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat. He has taught Communication Theory at the local university and has instructed in the classroom for Los Angeles Unified School District. As a part of Los Angeles City College Community Services, he taught Technology & Video Production for high school Gateway-to-College students as well as for their STrEaM Summer Camp program. Being a national judo champion with a 2nd degree black belt in judo and a 3rd degree black belt in Hapkido, Aguilar teaches his “Quick and Dirty Self-Defense” class on Saturdays to students of all ages living within the surrounding Los Angeles area community. In his free time he works with FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics, a worldwide mentor-based program that “build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.” Here he can be found as the Master of Ceremonies for the Los Angeles Regional and World Championship competitions but can also be found volunteering his culinary skills to the Downtown Women’s Center in downtown Los Angeles’ skid row. When reflecting on his teaching skill and his strongest asset, he states, “As someone who is constantly in search of knowledge, I feel like my gift as an educator is the ability to take complicated concepts, whether it be technology or the martial arts, simplify them and be able to disseminate the information to students of all ages. As an instructor, not only should you be well familiar with the subject matter but excited to teach it-and share it with the world.” Aguilar has two children who inspire him to be a better person every day and enjoys writing music, skateboarding, reading non-fiction books, watching movies, and spending time at the beach listening to the waves and watching the sunset.

Reviews of Jojo Aguilar

(13 Reviews)
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by Paloma C. on 3/2/2024
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Anonymous review on 10/16/2023
    It was way to slow and no structure and no equipment the kids could practice in. 5 meets and all they did was tumble? The teacher was great, very nice. But the program was way to slow and blah
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by jadore m. on 5/15/2023
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by Lavella B. on 10/16/2022
  • Quick & Dirty Self Defense

    Reviewed by Sandra B. on 10/5/2022
    JoJo answered all our questions and gave a lot of great tips. Super informative class. I learned a lot more and I am interested to take another class. Highly recommend this class. Everyone should know how to protect themselves
  • Quick & Dirty Self Defense

    Reviewed by Kenneth Chijate R. on 11/7/2021
  • Quick & Dirty Self Defense

    Reviewed by Patricia B. on 10/4/2020
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by Sarah R. on 7/20/2019
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by abby s. on 2/11/2019
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by Alexa H R. on 7/23/2018
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by Alison M. on 7/23/2017
    The class was amazing. Instructor is very patient and professional with all the students. Would highly recommend this class for beginners.
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by on 2/27/2016
  • Gymnastics for Kids (Ages 5-12)

    Reviewed by Niven G. on 2/21/2016
    It was fun for the kids. The instructor is very nice and gives step by step instructions to do the movements correctly. Most of the class focused on doing rolls. I would like it if more time could be spent to focus on more difficult moves though like how to do a front and back flip and a handstand or maybe even add a trampoline and teach them how to do a salto.

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