Epi 265 Alliance Founder Romero Jacare Cavalcanti

This week we have Romero Jacare Cavalcanti. Jacare is well known in the Jiu-Jitsu community for being the founder of the Alliance Jiu-Jitsu Team. Alliance is thought of as being the most successful BJJ team. He is also one of only six people to be promoted to black belt by Rolls Gracie.

We talk about:

• Becoming a black belt in 1982
• Starting the team Alliance Jiu-Jitsu
• Some of the reasons why Alliance has been so succesful
• Only a small amount of students compete
• Information about the Alliance affiliation
• Running different classes for different students
• Why it is important to have a beginner class
• What the students do in the advance class
• Keys to doing BJJ for a long time
• Promoting over 200 black belts
• His plans for moving to California
• Growing Alliance Jiu-Jitsu affiliation
• Advice for the hobbyist grappler

Links: Alliance Team

Quote of the week: "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Thomas Jefferson

Article of the week: Value this time on the mats kids

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