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Yamasaki Academy's headquarters is at 12712 Rock Creek Mill Road in Rockville, Maryland, with company-run academies in Springfield and Woodbridge, Virginia, and a wider affiliate network across Maryland, Virginia, DC, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Sweden and South Korea. The Yamasaki family opened its first martial arts school in São Paulo, Brazil, in the early 1950s; Mario Yamasaki opened the DC area's first Gracie Jiu-Jitsu school in 1995, and his brother Fernando joined him in 2003. The academy is run as a partnership between Fernando Yamasaki, Mario Yamasaki and Francisco Neto.
The Rockville schedule runs morning and evening adult classes in gi and no-gi Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, fundamentals, open mat and striking, plus daily kids Jiu-Jitsu, a kids competition team and kids Muay Thai. Instructors on the website include Fernando Yamasaki (7th-degree coral belt BJJ, 4th dan judo), Mario Yamasaki (6th-degree black belt, MMA referee), Francisco Neto (6th-degree black belt BJJ, 3rd dan judo), Maurice Allan (8th-degree judo black belt, former Olympic wrestler) and Kristen Allan (2nd-degree BJJ black belt).
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