Author Archives: Ivan Trindade

GMA member Ricardo Guimarães has some great news from his school. He has just graduated a new black belt for his Gracie Temecula Team. With the presence of master Royler Gracie, Guimarães gave the new belt to Marco Gonzalez. The ceremony also celebrated the opening of Gracie Temecula South, Guimarães’ newest school. The new location [...]

If you are fishing for an academy to begin or continue to train BJJ, look no more. GMA member Fabio Leopoldo has a brand new facility to offer you. He has just opened a new gym in Ventura, California. Here are some pictures to show what you’ll be missing if you don’t sign up now. [...]

GMA member Anderson Pereira, from Geneve, put on a great competition recently in Switzerland. The Coupe Suisse No-Gi gathered 200 athletes in Geneve. Another GMA member played the role of referee director. Servio Vita flew from Portugal to give a hand. Here are the results of the Teams competition: 1 – Icon Jiu Jitsu Team [...]

Another law enforcement organization started to enjoy the benefits of training Jiu-Jitsu’s self-defense techniques. GMA member Rafael Ellwanger, of Gracie Barra Northshore, in Louisiana, just started a training program with the Biloxi Police Academy, in Mississippi. The first session happened recently, as Ellwanger tells us: “We schedule a training session with the Biloxi-MS Police Academy [...]

GMA member Ezekiel Zayas welcomed recently black belt Alan “Finfou” Nascimento for a special seminar in Valencia, Spain. Finfou spent a whole week at Ases JJ. Zayas, also a black belt, talked about the experience: “We had two sessions a day and Finfou showed a lot of positions and variations. It was very interesting, once [...]

The usual GMA members are BJJ academies. This time, however, we have joined a grappling event. The Northwest Submission Challenge is the largest event of its kind in the state of Idaho. The next installment is scheduled November 5th. All participants will get a event T-shirt and the first 150 to register will also get [...]

GMA member Eduardo Carriello hosted a very special seminar last June 12th. He welcomed fellow GMA member Braulio Estima for a Gi class at his Gracie Barra London Bridge. Three times World champion and the current ADCC absolute and -88kg divisions winner, Estima had a full class to teach his always impressive techniques. Here is [...]

Black belt Bruno Frazatto, of Team Atos JJ, just ended a week of seminar at GMA school Purebred Guam. Member Stephen Roberto invited the Brazilian for seven days of teaching right after the 2011 Worlds. As we can read on Facebook, Bruno had a great time at the Pacific island. Here what he had to [...]

After a succesful trip in 2010, Rafael ‘Gordinho’ Correa will again visit GMA member school Gracie Oceania (Ryan Gracie team) in Sydney to teach two exclusive seminars. For the first time in Australia, Gordinho will also be coaching a class for children aged 4-13 years – a sign Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is gaining popularity ‘down [...]