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Australian black belt Kit Dale is entered into the Copa Podio Middleweight Grand Prix with the likes of Paulo Miyao, Travis Stevens, Alexandre Ceconi, Jaime Canuto, Felipe Preguica and more. When he’s not training for the event, he’s working on his video skills. See his latest below and watch for him in the Copa Podio event on September 8. Livestream available here: www.copapodio.com

Disclaimer: This video is for comedic purposes only and we do not condone outlandish acts of ego on the mat.

Comedian of the family, Jean Machado provides comedy through YouTube videos. Photo: YouTube

The Machado family has been a force alongside the Gracie family as five brothers have worked towards spreading the art throughout the states. The youngest of the five, John Machado, teaches in the South Bay area of California where his sons help teach classes.

One of those sons, brown belt Jean Machado films comedy videos to post on YouTube geared toward Jiu-Jitsu enthusiasts. In this video below, he demonstrates some sample (and cheesy) pick-up lines that can provide you a laugh. We don’t recommend using these at any point in time ever, but we hope you can chuckle at a few of these like we did:

Sérgio Mallandro on the beach during filming of reality show / Photo: Photo Rio News/Publicity

A Carlson Gracie student, Sérgio Neiva Cavalcanti, better known as “Sérgio Mallandro”, would be a Jiu-Jitsu practitioner like any other, had his professional duties not kept him from the academy for a spell, had he not become one of Brazil’s most beloved comedians.

At 56 years of age, Sérgio Mallandro still cherishes the lessons he learnt in Jiu-Jitsu, and he shows it on a reality show broadcast on Multishow cable channel in the South American nation.

Between philosophical musings and random gibberish, Mallandro revealed some of his style on the mat, and didn’t limit himself to being silly. “I have my life philosophy,” he says on the show. “For example, never spit on someone when you’re above them. After all, the ground you step on is the same one that holds you up.”

THE GIRL WHO HATED CARLSON GRACIE AND JIU-JITSU

The show proves that the understudy of media mogul Silvio Santos hasn’t forgotten his days competing in Jiu-Jitsu. “Carlson would make us go two months without having sex in the lead-up to a tournament, and our girlfriends would get up in arms. I had a girlfriend who hated Carlson and Jiu-Jitsu, even stormed into the academy one day to voice her complaints,” the comedian recalled.

Watch Mallandro training at the academy now overseen by Marcelo Saporito in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. The scenes start just before the 17-minutes mark, in case you’re pressed for time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4BL94S6tIg