GRACIE BARRA - Key Persons
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Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founder and President of the IBJJF
- S Enterprises Outside
Carlos Gracie Jr. was born in January 17, 1956 and grew up heavily influenced by his family of fighters. In close synch with the life philosophy and teachings of his father Carlos Gracie Sr., Carlinhos - as he's known to friends and family - grew up observing and learning from some of the most influential figures his family has ever produced: Carlos, Helio and Rolls.
The most significant years of his childhood and early teenage years were spent in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro at the legendary Teresópolis House - a sprawling ranch with numerous rooms where most of Carlos and Helio's sons lived and trained together for many years. There, Carlos Gracie Jr. learned to live in a community in which all members need to get along, share, and learn from one another; a dynamic that seems to have become an ideal for him. In many ways, Master Carlos seems to be replicating that communal setting in a larger scale today - the same environment that nurtured his personal development at the old Teresópolis House. There are those who even attribute the tremendous success he has had in an array of different fields to being the outcome of that philosophy.
The maiden COMPNET event was a small tournament held on 6/8/2008 at the Gracie Barra Headquarters for kids only. A surprising number of young ones and their parents crowded the 7000-square foot facility, and emails from adults and students requesting a chance to compete poured into our email boxes; It was definitely time to take it seriously and take a professional approach in putting together our tournaments.
The Gracie Barra Competition Network is at its very core a positive and tight-knit organization made up of athletes. GBCN tournaments are conducted with the highest level of integrity, camaraderie and sportsmanship, with our athletes, staff, and officials always putting safety first.
Besides his roles at Gracie Barra, Master Carlos is also the founder and president of the IBJJF, the most widespread Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu federation in the world. Back in 1990, he also saw a need to develop a media presence in order to further popularize his sport and competitions, leading to the development of the "Gracie Newspaper" project, which later evolved into Gracie Magazine, today Jiu-Jitsu's foremost publication.
With a busy schedule divided between his several occupations and daily Jiu-Jitsu training, Carlinhos takes weekly walks up Pedra da Gávea mountain in Rio de Janeiro, the dunes of Florianopolis or even the stairs at the beaches of Laguna Niguel, depending on where he is at the moment. He adheres to a strict nutritional regimen based on the Gracie Diet, and directs all his energy to delivering "Jiu-Jitsu for Everyone."