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    • Arthur Virgílio Neto

    Brazil
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    Also known as

    Arthur Virgílio

    Description

    Brazilian politician (mayor of Manaus, federal deputy and senator for Amazonas) and jiu-jitsu red belt, one of Carlson Gracie's oldest students; he was in Carlson's corner with Rolls Gracie for Carlson's last fight, against Waldemar Santana in 1970.

    Teachers (3)

    • Reyson Gracie
      sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable
      Probable
      His own account only.
      The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
      (1962)
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      Frederico Muñoz
      Researcher, Martialis
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      His own account only.
      visibilityFirst-hand
      “By 1962, I was training with Reyson Gracie.”
      — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info
    • Carlson Gracie
      sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable
      Probable
      His own account only.
      The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
      (1965)
      fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
      Frederico Muñoz
      Researcher, Martialis
      1 source expand_more
      fact_check
      His own account only.
      visibilityFirst-hand
      “After, around 1965 or 1966 I began training with Carlson.”
      — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info
    • Osvaldo Alves
      sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable
      Probable
      His own account only.
      The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
      (1959)
      fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
      Frederico Muñoz
      Researcher, Martialis
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      fact_check
      His own account only.
      visibilityFirst-hand
      “I began around 1959 with Haroldo Brito who taught judo but had also been a student of Helio’s so he also taught jiu-jitsu, even though I didn’t know we were doing jiu-jitsu, they just called it ne-waza then. I trained with Oswaldo Alves there who was a student of Brito.”
      — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

    Lineage

    • Brazilian jiu-jitsuOsvaldo Alves ← Reyson Gracie ← Carlos Gracie · 3 generations

    Sources

    “He was also in Carlson’s corner next to Rolls for the last fight of Carlson’s career against Waldemar Santana in December 1970.”
    — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

    Identifiers

    https://martial.is/entity/01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6
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    Cite and reuse

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    Plain text
    Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Arthur Virgílio Neto. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
    BibTeX
    @incollection{martialis_01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Arthur Virgílio Neto}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M5H6E6RG3ZKKD0TYFBHECNJ6}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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