Description

Carlson Gracie's academy in Copacabana, opened in 1972; Rolls Gracie joined him there and the two taught on alternate days. It was the centre of the second wave of jiu-jitsu competitors.

Also known as

Figueiredo de Magalhães Academy

Locations (1)

• location_onRua Figueiredo de Magalhães, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro

  warning No sources cited

Founder

Instructors (2)

• 
  Carlson Gracie

  Head instructor

  1972

  Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Eventually, Carlson and Rolls would end up being business partners in the now legendary Figueiredo de Magalhães Academy. They maintained this partnership by alternating the days in which they taught their own group of separate (but sort of mixed) students.”

  — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info
• 
  Rolls Gracie

  Instructor

  Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Eventually, Carlson and Rolls would end up being business partners in the now legendary Figueiredo de Magalhães Academy. They maintained this partnership by alternating the days in which they taught their own group of separate (but sort of mixed) students.”

  — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

Trained here (1)

• 
  Carlos Gracie Jr.

  sports_martial_artsBrazilian jiu-jitsu Probable

  Probable

  His own account; Wikipedia's infobox row is not a second source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  under Rolls Gracie

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  2 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  His own account; Wikipedia's infobox row is not a second source.

  visibilityFirst-hand

  “I began training in Copacabana [at the Figueiredo Academy] to be near Rolls as a brown-belt and one day he suggested to Uncle Helio that it was time and that I was ready for my black-belt.”

  — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

  “While two of Rolls’ main students went on to become very successful competition team leaders, yourself and Carlinhos.”

  — Drysdale, Robert. (2023). The Rise and Evolution of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: From Vale-Tudo, to Carlson Gracie, to its Democratization info

Tags

bjj

Sources