Here are some of the best images of the black belt division at the 2015 European championship, from last Sunday, Jan. 25. Andre Galvão, Gabi Garcia, Mackenzie Dern, the Miyao Bros, Caio Terra and many others in awesome moments that were born classics.

They took home the gold of the adult black belt open class divisions.

Gabi confirmed her favoritism and was able to submit all her opponents.

In the final, she had to recover from a near sweep and also an attack to her neck by Mackenzie Dern, the most thrilling moment of the event.

After putting things back to normal, Gabi passed guard and got the win with a choke from side control, like she usually does.

The same crowd that seemed to be rooting for Dern, cheered Garcia in the end, recognizing her talent and supremacy in the female black belt division.

In the male open class final, Andre Galvão also had to recover to confirm his position as favorite.

Igor Silva, who had an amazing weekend, started out hot with an attack to Galvão’s foot and a sweep that put him 2-0 ahead with one advantage.

After that, Galvão worked his game plan and was able to comeback in the match.

He had the not predicted help of a rib injury suffered by Silva in a prior match, which slowed him down.

Galvão was able to sweep back, pass guard and put the knee on the belly twice to get to a 9-2 score at the moment Silva called it quits due to the pain.

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For the full results, click here.

In the teams competition, the results were:

Adult Male

1 – Alliance – 78

2 – PSLPB Cicero Costha – 44

3 – Atos Jiu-Jitsu – 41

4 – Gracie Barra – 37

5 – Team Lloyd Irvin – 29

6 – Brasa CTA – 26

7 – GF Team – 25

8 – Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu – 21

9 – Gracie Barra JJ – 19

10 – Game Fight BJJ/Manimal – 18

Adult Female

1 – CheckMat – 45

2 – Alliance – 38

3 – Gracie Barra – 36

4 – Roger Gracie – 26

5 – Frontline Academy – 21

6 – Carlson Gracie Team – 14

7 – GF Team – 14

8 – BJJ Globetrotters – 13

9 – Bruno Bastos Association – 12

10 – Gracie Barra JJ – 12

Juvenile

1 – Gracie Barra – 39

2 – UAE Jiu-jitsu Team – 24

3 – Hangon Hyrskyt – 20

4 – Rio Grappling Club Europe – 18

5 – SNAP A.S.D. – 18

6 – Art of Roll – 18

7 – UAEJJ – 17

8 – BJJ Globetrotters – 15

9 – Amazon Fight Team – 12

Masters

1 – Gracie Barra – 213

2 – Alliance – 173

3 – Roger Gracie – 142

4 – CheckMat – 136

5 – Icon Jiu-Jitsu Team – 109

6 – Brasa CTA – 77

7 – Carlson Gracie Team – 67

8 – WING BJJ – 47

9 – Ribeiro Jiu-Jitsu – 41

10 – GF Team – 35

Novice

1 – CheckMat – 60

2 – Carlson Gracie Team – 50

3 – Alliance – 46

4 – Icon Jiu-Jitsu Team – 34

5 – Gracie Barra – 32

6 – Brasa CTA – 20

7 – Jackson Paulo Team – 20

8 – Nova União International – 20

9 – Frota Team – 19

10 – Association Aranha France – 18

Galvão got there with an all-submission campaign of four matches this Saturday.

First Galvão caught .Gabriel Rosberg’s neck, then he faced Thomas Johanessen and won with another choke from the back.

The quarterfinal was against Eberth Santos, newly arrived to the black belt division.

Galvão gave Santos a not very warm welcome with a choke from north south.

The semifinal put Galvão face to face with Checkmat’s Tarcisio Jardim and once again the Atos leader imposed his game to win by armbar submission.

On the other side of the bracket, Igor Silva worked in silence to advance each step until the final.

First he beat Alexandre Vieira, then he defeated Maksymilian Wisniewski.

The opponent in the quarterfinals was Jurandir Conceição, submitted with a foot lock.

The semifinal was a fast match against Lucio Lagarto.

A choke from the back granted Silva his place in the final.

In the female division, Gabrielle Garcia and Mackenzie Dern will clash for the gold medal just like they did at last year’s Worlds No-Gi

Both Gabi and Mackenzie fought twice to get to the final.

Gabi first beat Anna Mayne with and armbar and then choked Shanti Abelha from side control.

Mackenzie also fought twice, first choking Laurence Cousin with an ezekiel from the mount and then getting a referee decision win over Dominika Obelenyte.

Here are the best images of the day.

Day 3 of the 2015 European championship was fully devoted to blue belts and purple belts of the masters divisions.

For more than 12 hours, the 10 mats set up in the Casal Vistoso gymnasium, in Lisbon, Portugal, were packed with match after match.

People from all over the world came to compete.

People from many different origins who in regular life have many different occupations.

They are plumbers, airplane pilots, police officers, farmers, students, nurses, stock market specialists, etc.

For one day tough, they were all blue belts or purple belts.

Here are some of the great images we captured of them.

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Here are some of the best images captured by our team on day 2 of the 2015 European championship.

The thursday in Lisbon was devoted to blue belts and purple belt divisions.

The big champions were Julia Maele (Roger Gracie)  and Gustavo Batista (Cicero Costha) in the blue belt open class divisions.

In the purple belt, outscored Fabio Alano ( Alliance) 3-0 on advantages for the gold medal.

In the purple belt open class division, Rudson Telles (Game Fight BJJ) grabbed gold after a unanimous decision by the referees in the final against Phillipe Pomaski.

In the female open class, Tayane Araujo (Alliance) caught Mayssa Bastos (GFT) with a kimura to be the champion.

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Demente at European Jiu-Jitsu Championship. Photo: Ivan Trindade

Ricardo Abreu, better known as Demente (“Demented” in Portuguese), is moving to Rio de Janeiro, where he will stay definitively. “I’m here in my town, getting my things together. Now I’m going straight to back to Rio,” the Sao Paulo native told GRACIEMAG.com.

The fighter has been at the top of his game at the main Jiu-Jitsu competitions. His latest big win came at the European Championship, featured in the current issue of GRACIEMAG. On the occasion, the Robson Moura black belt won the super heavyweight category.

In a video interview taken by our collaborator Diego Marcello in Portuguese, direct from the X-Gym training center in Rio de Janeiro, the  where he works out with aces like Andre Galvao and Anderson Silva, Demente explained in detail how a long-running knee injury kept him from disputing the absolute category in Europe. Rather than operating his knee beforehand and being uncertain as to whether he could compete, he opted to compete with the injured knee and hope for the best. Hence his avoiding the more injury-prone absolute class.

He also spoke of he feels fully accommodated at his new home in Rio, where he was surprised to encounter a well-structured family that welcomed him with open arms. However at home he may feel, he did express how he is still in training limbo when it comes to the gi. While X-Gym provides him all the training he needs without the gi, he has not found a shop wherein to polish up his gi game for coming March’s Abu Dhabi World Cup Pro tryouts.

Check out the complete Portuguese interview

Returning to the one who performed the armbar, after the match Antonio Sérgio disappeared from the scene. Holder of such titles as the Brazilian National Championship and other major competitions, where could Canudo be?

Canudo stretches out an arm at the European. Photo: Anderson Fetter

For anyone who kept up with the European Jiu-Jitsu Championship, that’s easy to answer. Canudo, who now lives in Portugal, attended the last four editions of the event, winning all of them. In the most recent this year he had 12 matches, all concluded before the final whistle, which earned the black belt the nickname of Mr. European.

“After closing out the medium heavyweight adult division in 2007, with Raphael Abi Rihan, fought as a master the next three years and won at weight and absolute, as well as the National Team tournament. At this year’s I had three matches in the adults National Team Championship, four at weight (medium heavyweight) and five in the absolute. I got the submission in all but one in which the opponent was injured. But his arm was well extended when he asked to stop. Most were by armbar, but I also got the choke,” says the Brazilian Fight and Carlson Gracie representative.

Based in Cascais, Portugal, Canudo just finished his master’s degree in Physical Education and is now preparing for his doctorate. The fighter discusses the evolution of the gentle art in the country.

“I do the gang’s physical conditioning and will even work with an MMA fighter, Vitor Nóbrega, here. I train here with Sergio “Telinho” Vitor, who was a student of Leo D’Ilha in Brazil. Jiu-Jitsu is growing here with every year, it is well known. We see that in the number of practitioners in the academies. But here in Portugal there’s a problem: there aren’t many championships. For those accustomed to always competing, it’s very different. I’m here all year round focusing on a single event, the European. Jiu-Jitsu is growing a lot here, but there are no more competitions, “he says.

To the skinny competitor to make it to the throne in Lisbon, the “Bad Boy” of the Alliance had two good matches. Check out the final against Wekcilley Cruz

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