The history of the Jiu-jitsu began in India, time of Buda. The monks traveled a lot and they were constantly plundered, as they were peaceful to the end and they avoided the weapons at the whole cost, they developed the jiu-jitsu, a defense form where they could immobilize or mainly to force your opponent to give up without needing to hurt him. All this has more than two thousand years. Prays the legend that the Hindus, equally tired of they be plundered by the tribes Mongols of the north of Asia, they developed a type of special defense for the physical type of your people, low and slim. That species of embryo of the jiu-jitsu it ended up crossing the borders of China and will stop in the Japanese archipelago.
Cultivated in Japan, just known by the noblemen and warriors samurais, the jiu-jitsu grew to the point of to become mother of all the other martial arts. Of Japan it came to Brazil in 1914 through the fighter Mitsuyo Maeda. Gracies learned Jiu-jitsu with Maeda in Belém of Pará and later they came to Rio de Janeiro setting up the first Brazilian academy of jiu-jitsu whose address was in the Rua Marques of Abrantes in the neighborhood of the Flamengo in 1925, and of there for here the jiu-jitsu was very improved by the family Gracieand Brazilian fighters as teacher André Quiles.

Gracies were, Carlos, Gastão, Hélio, and other, always making a very aggressive marketing challenging all to show efficiency of the art of the Jiu-jitsu. Hélio Gracie, improved the jiu-jitsu in such a way that gave conditions to transform the man in a weapon, giving techniques to the individual capable to do with that the thin and fragile wins the largest and stronger, becoming with Carlos Gracie, the father of the Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and of there for here, the " Gracie jiu-jitsu " that nowadays is known out of Brazil by the foreigners as brazilian jiu-jitsu, the BJJ only has victories.
    
With the time Brazil stopped being the limit for the family Gracie and your challenges were extending if more and more and today they reach to the the whole planet, the Vale Tudo or MMA, the largest tournament of fights where styles are confronted and placed the proof of the whole efficiency. It is where the BJJ more stands out, The Gracies that have your name as technique synonym and courage. They were the inventors of that challenge type and they created the BJJ to prove that through the technique a lighter individual could win other heavier, and to prove the technical superiority of the BJJ.

 Originariamente of Scotland, the family Gracie arrived at Brazil in 1801. Gastão was first Gracie to arrive, and he didn't have idea that your day descendants would found the combatant athletes' of the history largest family. Carlos Gracie founded to 1.º academy jiu-jitsu Gracie in 1925.

 Based on the Japanese traditional jiu-jitsu, teacher Hélio and your siblings developed the jiu-jitsu Gracie and, for the last 80 years, the family Gracie is dedicating your life to the only form of personal defense with more than 100 members of the family involved directly in that true art, and to strong success line it is establishing if more and more and more maintaining the tradition ofGRACIE'S dynasty.

Today without doubts the jiu-jitsu is the individual sport that more grows at our country and one of the ones that obtained larger acceptance in the planet, already counting with Federations and Confederation. Plus than a sport, the BJJ became a middle of life and instrument for many they strengthen the body and the mind through the philosophy of health, that besides the technique that automatically strengthens being turning weak individuals into character men and of opinion.
We can notice the potential of our sport not only through the great amount of participants, but also for the great number of sponsors and entrepreneurs that more and more invest in the BJJ.

Today BJJ is so diffused to the point of many fighters and, mainly teachers, they forget that if today they practice that sport it was because there are years the family GRACIE developed our jiu-jitsu, and for that all should be thankful and to try to help to still build a sport more solid, and not to try to struggle against who generated GRACIE JIU-JITSU. Many teachers live today of the alone jiu-jitsu that forget that the jiu-jitsu that they practice comes direct or indirectly of the Gracie family and that without exception!

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Carlos Gracie