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Professor Marcio Feitosa featured on Gracie Mag Website

On the article Professor Marcio Feitosa comments on the Gracie Barra’s performance at the BJJ Worlds. To read the article: CLICK HERE!

Here is a cool picture from Professor Marcio at the Gracie Barra main School in Rio, Brazil. He was 14 years old and the rank of orange belt when the picture was taken.

Worlds No Gi

The World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship 2008 and International Master & Senior Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship are coming up. The No Gi training sessions here at GB America are happening on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. All students holding the rank of Blue Belt and above are welcome to participate. 

To see our No-Gi Classes Schedule: CLICK HERE!

To improve your No-Gi game visit budovideos.com and check the variety of great instructionals available. Their latest release was the Killer Buterfly featuring the BJJ black belt under Carlos Gracie Jr’s: Nino “Elvis” Schembri.

The always innovative Nino Schembri returns with a 3 DVD set covering submissions from the crucifix and butterfly sweeps.  We believe the techniques on the DVD are very advanced and we recommend it to students with at least 1 year of training experience.

To see more info on Nino’s DVD: CLICK HERE!

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“Babalu” to step on the MMA arena once more 

On Saturday 19th our very Renato “Babalu” Sobral will step into the MMA arena once more on a great show called: Affliction Banned. Babalu will face the wrestler Mike Whitehead.

Affliction Banned will showcase this historic event July 19th at the Honda Center in Anaheim, with a stacked card of MMA megastars.

Lots of Gracie Barra members are going there to support Babalu, dont miss that opportunity to support our champ and to see some great fights. We will get together after the event to party at the grove in Anaheim. Everybody is invited, bring your friends and we will have a lot of fun!

For tickets: CLICK HERE!

Renato “Babalu” Sobral is not only a MMA World Class Fighter and a Gracie Barra Black Belt under Master Carlos Gracie Jr. but first and foremost he is a great Teammate. His attitude towards the School and his Teammates makes us very proud of having a Champ like him on the Team.

Hey Babalu,
In behalf of all Gracie Barra Members we would like to wish you all the best on your upcoming fight!

Here are couple pictures from Babalu supporting the Team

Babalu teaching a MMA seminar at GB

Babalu supporting a GB Conditioning Beach Class

Main card for the Affliction Banned

• Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tim Sylvia
• Josh Barnett vs. Pedro Rizzo
• Ben Rothwell vs. TBA
• Paul Buentello vs. Aleksander Emelianenko*
• Matt Lindland vs. Fabio Nascimento
• Renato “Babalu” Sobral vs. Mike Whitehead

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Opportunity to compete in Brazil

The Rio International Open and the International Masters and Seniors tournament take place on July 24 - 27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These tournaments are big opportunities for practitioners to put their competitive spirit to work and to visit the city where the gentle art as we know it was born.

Today July 11th is the last day to register for the great event so go to IBJJF.ORG to sign up

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The School will be closed Friday July 4th

We will have regular classes Saturday and Sunday.

See you on the mats!

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GB Future Champions did an outstanding  job

To see the high skill level, hard work and discipline presented by our kids made everyone at GB very proud.
They really gave it their all and we thoroughly enjoyed so much the evening.

Congratulations for the GB Professors, Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Volunteers for the outstanding job they are doing with the GB Kids Programs throughout California. The kids showcased beautiful take downs, guard passes, sweeps, chokes, armbars and so on … there could not have been a better representation of good Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the expectators.

Big thanks to all the Professors, Instructors and students who helped us seting up the event, without your help we could not do it. We would like to specially thank Professor Mike Buckels from Gracie Barra Costa Mesa for the awesome job he did leading the organization.

Everybody walked out with big smiles on their faces, and most wanting to come back and see it again . A final note to the kids: Well Done, keep training hard and Thank You!

Here are some cool pics for you guys to enjoy:

Professors lined up to award the medals.(foto by Professor Magidi)

Focus and determination before stepping on the mats. Thats how we do it!(foto by pesh)

Professor Marco Joca referring and doing his part on “Keeping the legacy alive”. Professor started to study under Master Carlos Gracie Jr at the young age of 9 years old.(foto by pesh)

Professor Marcio Feitosa referring. Professor started to study under Master Carlos at the age of 12 years old. For sure at the moment of this pictures lots of memories were going through his mind.(foto by Professor Magidi)

So much talent displayed all day long. Kids you are amazing!(foto by Professor Magidi)

Master Carlos Gracie Jr. was there the whole evening awarding the kids with medals. We don’t know anybody who loves Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu more than this Man.(foto by pesh)

Master Carlos Gracie Jr awarding the kids. He must be very proud of the nice things Gracie Barra is doing for the comunity.(Foto by pesh)

There are many pictures posted on Professor Magidi’s website. If you would like to see it: CLICK HERE!

Gracie Barra Keeping the legacy alive!

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GB Future Champions Kids Tournament 06/28/2008

To see the banner in better resolution: CLICK HERE!

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GB San Diego in action

We would like to congratulate our teammates from Gracie Barra San Diego for the excellent performance of their students who fought the MMA Show Las Vegas Combat Championship.

Steve Gable had his second MMA fight (he is now 2 -0) he faced Vitor Pimenta from Brazil,a really tough opponent, and had a great win. On the same night Greg Contardo did his MMA debut achieving his first  win in great way.

To see Steve Gable in action: CLICK HERE!

To see  Greg Contardo 1st round: CLICK HERE! 2nd round: CLICK HERE!

Keep training hard,
Great job guys!

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The involvement of great leaders and important people with the gentle art is not a recent phenomenon. Following up with our last post about the Quote of this Week “Men in the Arena”, find below a very interesting statement from President Roosevelt and his relationship with the Jiu-Jitsu Japanese masters who lended in Brazil a few years later to make the link that allowed the birth of BJJ.

“… Yesterday afternoon we had Professor Yamashita [Yamashita was Roosevelt’s Jiu-jitsu instructor before Meada and Tomita had arrived there in the U.S.] up here to wrestle with Grant. It was very interesting, but of course jiu jitsu and our wrestling are so far apart that it is difficult to make any comparison between them. Wrestling is simply a sport with rules almost as conventional as those of tennis, while jiu jitsu is really meant for practice in killing or disabling our adversary.

In consequence, Grant did not know what to do except to put Yamashita on his back, and Yamashita was perfectly content to be on his back. Inside of a minute Yamashita had choked Grant, and inside of two minutes more he got an elbow hold on him that would have enabled him to break his arm; so that there is no question but that he could have put Grant out. So far this made it evident that the jiu jitsu man could handle the ordinary wrestler. But Grant, in the actual wrestling and throwing was about as good as the Japanese, and he was so much stronger that he evidently hurt and wore out the Japanese.

With a little practice in the art I am sure that one of our big wrestlers or boxers, simply because of his greatly superior strength, would be able to kill any of those Japanese, who though very good men for their inches and pounds are altogether too small to hold their own against big, powerful, quick men who are as well trained [of course we have to disagree with President Roosevelt here].”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
(Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children. 1919. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 1919 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999)

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 Great Belt Ceremony … Thanks to all of you!

Before the eyes of 50 black belts, Master Rickson Gracie and a large number of GB members who packed the new Gracie Barra America branch in Irvine, CA, Master Renzo Gracie holds the red-and-black belt to Master Carlos Gracie Junior.

To read more: CLICK HERE!

To see the video from Master Renzo’s speech: CLICK HERE!

To see the video from Master Carlos’s speech: CLICK HERE!

Group pictures from the GB Black Belts who attended the ceremony

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