Jonathan Satava: learn to move from deep half-guard to X-guard
Jonathan Satava is a black-belt under Marcelo Garcia who recently won the No-Gi Pan. Here he shows a transition from the deep half-guard to the…
Jonathan Satava
US National Pro Orlando: Satava wins black belt open class; other results
The UAEJJF held another edition of the US National Pro series this Saturday, Feb. 13. Hundreds of athletes gathered in Orlando, Florida, to compete for…
NY Summer Open: Diniz, Satava close out black belt open class, other Gi results
Day 1 of the 2015 New York Summer Open is a wrap. Alliance's Matheus Diniz and Jonathan Satava closed out the black belt open class…
Prankster Marcelo Garcia at it again with three new surprise black belt promotions
When Marcelo Garcia runs his promotion nights at Marcelo Garcia Academy in New York City, he makes sure to leave some level of surprise. It…
Four Marcelo Garcia students cover ground in 3 events on 3 continents on 1 day
The students of GMA Marcelo Garcia Academy are gaining ground--quite literally. Besides taking over podiums they are now traveling internationally taking up opportunities as they…
Insight into the Marcelo Garcia brown belt dream team: history, techniques, discussion
At Marcelo Garcia Academy in New York City, there is a team of athletes who have been sweeping tournaments. They came on the rise last…
Worlds No-Gi brown belts: Marcelo Garcia students sweep absolute, featherweight tops females
The brown belts at the 2014 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship fought their matches on Sunday, Oct. 5 inside the Felix Event Center in Azusa,…
Pan No-Gi brown belt absolute champion Dillon Danis talks training with Joao Miyao
The city of New York on Saturday, Sept. 27, was the place where Dillon Danis, student of Marcelo Garcia earned gold. The 20-year-old brown belt…
Marcelo Garcia student Dillon Danis recalls the best lessons learned from his teacher
After the double gold at the 2014 IBJJF New York Open, a brown belt taught by star Marcelo Garcia gained prominence in the Jiu-Jitsu scene. Dillon…
Watch JT Win his Way to Abu Dhabi
The Montreal, Canada, leg of the Abu Dhabi WPJJC Trials were held last weekend. The big standout on the occasion was "JT" Torres, who won…