Check out the move below:

Learn more techniques at www.rcjiujitsu.com

After Romulo dominated much of the match, the fight went to the ground, off the mats and chaos ensued. Romulo was awarded the victory based on his dominating performance prior to the altercation.

You can catch the video below:

Learn more about Cavalcanti Jiu-Jitsu at www.rcjiujitsu.com

Cavalcanti International team at the 2014 NAGA Europe Championship. Photo: Personal archive

Professor Ricardo Cavalcanti of GMA Carlson Gracie Las Vegas – Cavalcanti Jiu-Jitsu, is currently in the midst of his 2014 European Seminar Tour and Luxembourg Training Camp. But as a stop on the way, he was able to help coach his affiliated students to numerous victories.

On the weekend of Nov. 15, the Cavalcanti Jiu Jitsu Teams from Luxembourg, GMA Cavalcanti Jiu-Jitsu Luxembourg, and Poland gathered in Paris to compete side by side at the 2014 NAGA Europe Championship.

The Cavalcanti International Team entered with more than 15 competitors in different categories.

By the end of the tournament, the crew had accumulated:
6 gold medals
3 silver medals
3 bronze medals
1 NAGA championship belt

Learn more about Master Ricardo Cavalcanti and his international tour/affiliates by visiting www.rcjiujitsu.com

Check out this technique video for how to darce, guillotine and twist choke from all fours:

Learn more about Carlson Gracie Las Vegas – Cavalcanti BJJ in Las Vegas, NV at www.rcjiujitsu.com

Prepare for the upcoming no-gi tournaments: No-gi Pans and No-gi World Championship!

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The Cavalcanti BJJ family after promotions. Photo: Personal Archive

In Las Vegas, Nevada, 150 deserved students earned promotions from three-year-olds to adults and over. The ceremony started on June 26 and lasted three days for the little ones, kids, teens, adults and up to receive their promotions.

Not long after, the Ricardo Cavalcanti Jiu-Jitsu, Carlson Gracie Las Vegas Team was able to once again bring home the number one team trophy at the Grappler’s Quest UFC Expo on July 6-7. This their fifth year winning the tournament as a team.

A celebration ensued thereafter with a great BBQ as served by Texas of Brazil, official sponsor of the Carlson Gracie Cavalcanti BJJ Team.

For more information regarding Ricardo Cavalcanti Jiu-Jitsu in Las Vegas visit www.RCJiuJitsu.com

Saulo Ribeiro contra Eduardo Telles no Internacional de Master e Sênior de 2012. Foto: Ivan Trindade/GRACIEMAG.com

Quando o oponente fica de quatro, fechadinho, você tem duas opções: enfiar a mão na gola e estrangular no relógio ou botar os ganchos e pegar as costas. Certo?

Certo, mas não são as únicas alternativas.

Hoje, o GRACIEMAG.com traz de Las Vegas uma bela finalização dupla, ensinada por nosso GMA Ricardo Cavalcanti (Carlson Gracie Las Vegas).

Repare como o professor vai com a mão na gola para fintar um relógio.

Se o oponente fechar o caminho para seu primeiro gancho, não se preocupe: posicione o pé como mostra Ricardo e gire arrochando a gola pelas costas, aprisionando também o braço.

Só resta ao adversário gritar ou bater do jeito que der. Curtiu?

Saulo Ribeiro against Eduardo Telles at the International Master and Senior 2012 (Photo by Ivan Trindade/GRACIEMAG.com)

When an opponent has balled up on all fours, you have but two options: either stick your hand in and grab the collar for a clock choke or stick in your hooks and take his back. Right?

Not quite! You’ve still got some other alternatives.

Today GRACIEMAG.com brings you a slick double finish direct from Las Vegas, taught by our GMA Ricardo Cavalcanti, head sensei at Carlson Gracie Las Vegas.

Pay attention to how the Jiu-Jitsu professor fakes a clock choke with his hand.

If the opponent shuts your first hook out, don’t worry: position your foot as Ricardo does and turn while pulling on the collar from behind, which also traps the arm.

All that’s left for the opponent to do is shout out or tap out any way he can. How’d you like that?

Full house at Team Cavalcanti

Professor Ricardo Cavalcanti held recently a major graduation ceremony at his school in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He gathered over 300 people and awarded 158 of them with new belts or degrees.

Cavalcanti’s son Rômulo and wife Frances were in the mix.

Rômulo received his brown belt and the Frances got her blue belt.

Other than that, two times world no-gi champion Taylor Leonard is now a purple belt.

Cavalcanti also gave a new belt to his granddaughter, Anna Braqndon, now a grey and white 5 year old fighter.

The party was complete with some Brazilian barbeqeue and the visit of Santa Jiu-Jitsu Noel, as Cavalcanti called the jolly old man.

The Professor was very proud of his team:’Last time we promoted 100 students, this time 158 and next time will be 200 for sure.”

For more info, go to rcjiujitsu.com.

Robert Drysdale in side-control at 2003 Worlds / Photo by Gustavo Aragão/GRACIEMAG.com

A Jiu-Jitsu professor and a GMA or ours, Ricardo Cavalcanti teaches at Carlson Gracie Las Vegas. He understands that, in Jiu-Jitsu, few positions are more unpleasant or suffocating as when an opponent passes your guard and settles in side-control.

The scholarly professor has thus decided to gift GRACIEMAG.com readers with three sweet defenses to help turn the tables and to sharpen up their Jiu-Jitsu in training. Check out these three ways of defending when stuck in side-control.

Robert Drysdale no cem-quilos, no Mundial 2003. Foto: Gustavo Aragão/GRACIEMAG.com

O professor de Jiu-Jitsu e nosso GMA Ricardo Cavalcanti ensina na escola Carlson Gracie Las Vegas, nos EUA. Ele entende que, no Jiu-Jitsu, há poucas situações mais chatas e sufocantes do que quando alguém passa sua guarda e joga o peso do corpo no cem-quilos.

O estudioso professor presenteia o leitor do GRACIEMAG.com com três belas defesas para virar o jogo nessa posição e afiar seu Jiu-Jitsu nos treinos. Aprenda com Ricardo três maneiras de se defender dos cem-quilos, ao repor a guarda ou raspar.

Ricardo Cavalcanti at seminar in Fortaleza, Ceará State, last September / Photo by Junior Samurai/GRACIEMAG.com

Ricardo Cavalcanti is a GMA of ours and the leader at Carlson Gracie Las Vegas, Nevada.

“At every seminar I teach, I learn as well. Everyone has something new to show. And Grandmaster Carlson Gracie has certainly been accompanying me at those seminars, because the thing he liked most was to see everyone training,” said the Jiu-Jitsu professor, today teaching us how to get an opponent out of mount.

Note how he grabs his own wrist as though to defend his arms. Next he raises his hip and puts a hook in at the opposite leg.

He thus sticks his opponent’s foot in his half-guard (as explained at minute 1:32), and then latches on to the leg, raises his legs and, with a seesaw motion, reverses the position and takes the back.

Always train under a qualified instructor’s supervision.