Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Christian Uflacker (born August 4, 1985) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. He holds a black belt under Carlos Gracie Jr . [ 2 ] He is currently the head instructor at Uflacker Academy, in Chicago, Illinois .
Egan Inoue (Japanese: イーゲン井上, born June 4, 1965) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner, former mixed martial artist and racquetball competitor. A two-time International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Champion, Inoue is a two-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion in colored belts, the first non-Brazilian to win a gold medal at the World Jiu Jitsu Championship.
Letsos is a 3X Pan Am medalist, [1] as well as a 3X Gracie World Champion. He is known in Brazil for winning seven tournaments in one month.. Letsos began training in Jiu Jitsu in high school at the Carlson Gracie Academy in downtown Chicago, and won several matches in the Jiu Jitsu World Championships as a purple belt.
Besides running his school, Machado has been involved in competition, winning the Pan American of Brazilian jiu-jitsu (97/98), he also won several super fights in the U.S. (U.S Open 98/99), he competed in ADCC with a broken foot and still placed and earned the award of fastest submission in 1998, and the World Master's Championships (2000) in ...
Amy Campo (born January 30, 2000) is an American submission grappler, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) black belt athlete. [a]A multiple time IBJJF World (Gi and No-Gi), Pans and American national jiu-jitsu champion in colored belts; Campo is a black belt World Jiu-Jitsu Champion in both Gi and No-GI and the first-ever American 60+ kg ADCC Submission Fighting World Champion.
In 1994 de Been established the Australian Federation of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (AFBJJ). [3] [5] The goal of the federation being to help organize and regulate the sport to an international standard. [6] The federation was modelled off of the Confederacao Brasileira de Jiu-Jitsu and following IBJJF guidelines. [6]
Along with his brothers José and Jaildo, Ivan trained in boxing and a few notions of "jiu-jitsu" (a name for judo in Brazil at the time). [1] He trained formally in the latter art under Agatangelo Braga and his brother-in-law Osmar "Builson" Mouzinho de Oliveira, trainees of judoka Takeo Yano , [ 2 ] and also learned under grappler José ...
Rafaela Guedes (born May 23, 1992) is a Brazilian submission grappler, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) black belt athlete. [a] An IBJJF World champion at brown belt, Guedes is a two-time World No-Gi, Pan American (Gi and No-GI) black belt champion.