Carlson Gracie Green Valley

Miami 100% or MAYBE Las Vegas  ,strong bar and club culture and all the things that come with it. Plus i dont think any of these cities have a stronger MMA/BJJ scene than the  Miami metro, you have alot of serious competition in the area and people like the Gracies and Valente brothers (who trained under Helio) teaching there, also consider Ft.Lauderdale source, 2024 ↗

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This was brought up on the bjj section on the UG, but it was said some of the old school Carlson Gracie guys had a talk with him about it, and possibly is the reason he stopped wearing the coral belt. https://forums.mixedmartialarts.com/t/what-happened-to-carlson-gracie-las-vegas/2580074/30 Towards the end source, 2023 ↗

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If I was a fighter in the market for a team, I’d have a few ideas… Tiger Muay Thai, because they’ve produced several champs and the location is awesome. Location does matter. American Top Team in Coconut Creek. They know how to produce champions and the MMA scene in South Florida is high. Tristar in Montreal. They’ve produced GSP and they have a connection with Renzo Gracie in NYC, so you can go back and forth to a very high level BJJ training center. Onyx in Colorado with Trevor Wittman. Might be the best coach in MMA, or was very recently. Colorado is also nice. I would also wanting con source, 2022 ↗

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Oh, really? Roy's a Renzo Gracie BB who won PanAms, qualified for ADCC, and who has a win against Jeff Monson (an absolute monster in no-gi grappling). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZQuLDWPeco It's frustrating that he abandoned his BJJ in favor of his right hand, but you can't say he wasn't a talented grappler. That's utter nonsense. source, 2020 ↗

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Exactly. And the guy is a Renzo Gracie blackbelt, but refused to use it. Last time we saw him really try was against Arlovski in EliteXC (which involved a b.s. stand up from Tan Dan). That said, his IFL fight with Rothwell was awesome. source, 2020 ↗

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If there's a good non Gracie gym nearby I'd go to that over the Gracie gym. GJJ gyms are pretty restrictive. source, 2019 ↗

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I originally started bjj around 1999 as well. I had the advantage of having a great instructor who was a purple belt. He explained his own struggles of having to train by getting the Gracie VHS tapes and constantly traveling to seminars or flying out to California a couple times a year (we're in the middle of nowhere-midwest) to get a few weeks of training in at a time. Now that I've started back up he's a multi-striped black belt and it's crazy to see how large bjj has gotten since then and how much more technique exists... anyway, thanks for the story! It's cool to hear people's journey. source, 2017 ↗

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Awesome! I'll make sure to go if I end up doing the move. My intention is to check out as many schools as I can and find one I like from that. I'm a BJJ Rev team member right now, but there's no BJJ Revolution in Las Vegas. The closest I can find is a Carlson Gracie academy. source, 2015 ↗

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