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GMA Cavalcanti Carlson Gracie Team earns new belts and visit from Santa Claus

Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:46:27 +0000

Last Saturday Dec. 14, GMA Cavalcanti Carlson Gracie Training Center had a record breaking promotion ceremony with 175 promotions.

For the first time Ricardo Cavalcanti promoted members of the team who have been with him since they were five years old now at the age of sixteen.

Robert Alvarez, Cierra Smith, Chase Balasbas, Christian Shaughnessy, Matt Kamminga, and Sonny Kamminga all received their blue belts.

For the first time there were five team members promoted to brown belt:

Bryan Calleros, Chris Howey, Joshua Monsiavis, David Troy, and Bear Smith.

Also at the ceremony his son Romulo Cavalcanti and Steve Pellegrino received their black belts. Robert Lagasca was promoted to first degree black belt. Also, Michael Alvarez, thirteen, who was invited to the Battle for the Ages tournament in Texas, was promoted to green belt.

In attendance at the ceremony was Rose Gracie, old friend of Ricardo Cavalcanti, who came to represent Carlson Gracie and present Professor Cavalcanti with a gift, Javier Vasquez, and also special guest Santa “Cavalcanti” Claus who came all way from the North Pole to bring gifts, candy, and joy to the younger students.

Check out what else is happening at Ricardo Cavalcanti’s Carlson Gracie Training Center in Las Vegas, NV by visiting www.rcjiujitsu.com

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“The mouth is a good Jiu-Jitsu practitioner’s first line of defense”

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:56:32 +0000

The latest issue of GRACIEMAG is on its way to a bookstore near you, bringing with it, in the midst of a whirlwind of teachings and tricks for bettering your Jiu-Jitsu, a rare lesson from Grandmaster Carlos Gracie.

“My grandad would say a Jiu-Jitsu practitioner’s first line of defense is his mouth,” our interviewee of the month, Marco Gracie Imperial, the son of Rose Gracie and Carlos Imperial, told us, recounting the lessons he learnt while at his grandfather’s dining room table.

“The mouth serves as your weapon in two ways. First, when someone offends you, you use speech, along with an active mind, tact and well timed soothing words, to dissuade the person from going through with the attack. The second defense also comes from the mouth, since what we put in it either spells our strength or our defeat, in Jiu-Jitsu training and in life,” Marco explains in the FACE TO FACE section.

Marco Gracie and some of his kids, at a table abounding with foods from the Gracie Diet: Jiu-Jitsu begins at the mouth. Photo: Gustavo Aragão.

Grape, a magnificent medicine to the Jiu-Jitsu pioneer

In the can’t-miss interview, Marco Gracie Imperial shares with readers the stories from his youth growing up with the ground-breaking Professor Carlos, as well as the founding father’s grape-based medicinal recipes, a simple and delicious juice concoction he learned from Grandmaster Helio Gracie, not to mention a Gracie Christmas dinner and much, much more.

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“A boca é a primeira arma do bom praticante de Jiu-Jitsu”

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:09:03 +0000

A edição de janeiro de GRACIEMAG traz, em meio a uma fornada de ensinamentos e macetes para o seu Jiu-Jitsu, uma lição rara de grande mestre Carlos Gracie.

“Meu avô dizia que a boca é a primeira arma do praticante de Jiu-Jitsu”, ensina nosso entrevistado do mês Marco Gracie Imperial, filho de Rose Gracie e Carlos Imperial, neto que segue fielmente o que aprendeu à mesa com o avô.

“A boca serve como arma para você se defender de duas formas. Primeiro, quando alguém lhe ofende, e você usa a fala, e com a mente ativa, inteligência e palavras calmas na hora certa, procura demover a pessoa de realmente atacá-lo. A segunda defesa é a boca também, pois o que comemos é a nossa força ou a nossa derrota, nos treinos de Jiu-Jitsu assim como na vida”, explica Marco, na seção BATE-PRONTO.

Marco Gracie e alguns dos filhos, na mesa rica em alimentos da Dieta Gracie: o Jiu-Jitsu começa pela boca. Foto: Gustavo Aragão.

Uva, um santo remédio para o pioneiro do Jiu-Jitsu

Na imperdível entrevista, Marco Gracie Imperial compartilha com o leitor histórias do pioneiro professor Carlos, suas receitas medicinais baseadas na uva, uma vitamina simples e deliciosa que aprendeu com grande mestre Helio Gracie, como é uma ceia de Natal Gracie, e muito, muito mais.

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