This is a little late but anwyay... A couple months back I was visiting San Diego. I stopped by Rodrigo Medeiros school in the Pacific Beach neighborhood. I'm just a beginner(only training for a couple years), but I could tell this was a good school. Everybody was cool, and they have some skilled guys teaching/training there. Definitely check out Pacific Beach Fight Center if you are starting bjj in San Diego.
Look at the linage. Where did you instructor get his black belt? Who did your instructor's instructor get his black belt from? That is very important in understanding quality of the school, and what type of training you are going to get is understand the instructors that came before you started.
Yeah, you can basically throw a rock and hit a good BJJ school in San Diego. Rodrigo, Fabio, Saulo/Xande, Monteiro, Valente, Lister.
I might be getting stationed in San Diego soon. I am glad to hear there are a lot of good places to train.
