Roger Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos

Roger Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu Gi Videos

Roger Gracie Gomes is widely respected and highly-decorated in the BJJ world. He is the grandson of Carlos Gracie (on his mother's side), son of Reyla Gracie and Mauricio Motta Gomes (one of the six Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belts of Rolls Gracie). He is best know for dominating the 2005 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in 2005, taking first place in both the absolute division and his weight division. He won all 8 matches by submission, a first for ADCC.

His victories include:

• 3 time ADCC champion (88-98kg, absolute, superfight); 1 time ADCC 3rd place
• 6 time Brazilian Jujitsu Black Belt champion (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008); 4 time Black Belt 2nd place
• 1 time Pan American Black Belt champion (2006); 1 time Black Belt 2nd place
• 2 time European Brazilian Jujitsu Black Belt champion (2005)

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Combat Strategy

Renzo Gracie wrote in his book Mastering Jujitsu: "The classical jujutsu of old Japan appeared to have no common strategy to guide a combatant over the course of a fight. Indeed, this was one of Kano's most fundamental and perceptive criticisms of the classical program." Maeda not only taught the art of judo to Carlos Gracie, but also taught a particular philosophy about the nature of combat developed by Kano, and further refined by Maeda based on his worldwide travels competing against fighters skilled in a wide variety of martial arts.

The book details Maeda's theory as arguing that physical combat could be broken down into distinct phases, such as the striking phase, the grappling phase, the ground phase, etc. Thus, it was a smart fighter's task to keep the fight located in the phase of combat that best suited to his own strengths. Renzo Gracie stated that this was a fundamental influence on the Gracie approach to combat. These strategies were further perfected over time by the Gracies and others, and became prominent in contemporary MMA.