Julio Cesar Pereira is a
7th degree red and black belt coral belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; pt, jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting (ne-waza) and submission holds. BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, control ...
(BJJ) practitioner from Brazil.
An international master champion, two-time
IBJJF World champion, two-times
Pan American champion, eight-times
Brazilian champion and 21 times champion of
Rio de Janeiro State; Pereira is a renowned coach as the founder and team leader of
GFTeam
Grappling Fight Team (most commonly known as GFTeam) is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) academy and team. GFTeam is one of the strongest BJJ competition teams, having produced multiple world champions and regularly finishing in the top 10 of interna ...
, one of the most accomplished competition teams in jiu-jitsu.
Career
Julio Cesar Pereira was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 22 December 1964.
Pereira started training Jiu Jitsu from the age of 10 under Monir Salomão, founder of the ''Academia Monir de Jiu-Jitsu'', and an
Oswaldo Fadda black belt.
Pereira also trained Judo and
Luta Livre. Pereira trained under Salomão until he received his black belt.
In 1996 Pereira started coaching the grappling team of the Gama Filho University, alongside Marcus Bello and Alexandre Baraúna. In 2007 following the closing of the university's grappling program, Pereira founded a new team with the same group of fighters, independent of the university, called
Grappling Fight Team (GFTeam).
To help athletes from humble background Pereira set up at the GFT headquarters, based out of the neighbourhood of
Meier in Rio's north zone, a fighter house named ''Cachanga''.
Under Pereira's leadership, the team became one of the most accomplished competition teams in jiu-jitsu, producing countless champions such as
Rodolfo Vieira
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Vieir ...
,
Mayssa Bastos
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, Gutemberg Pereira, or Vitor Oliveira.
His coaching method is known to be based on a traditional high level jiu jitsu style through "very detailed technique tuition", "positional concepts" and "extensive sparring".
In 2016, after 31 years at black belt, Pereira received his
7th degree coral belt in jiu jitsu from the
IBJJF.
In 2018 he moved to Orange County, California that same year he won the South America IBJJF Master International, a traditional championship in the
Olympic Park of Barra da Tijuca of Rio,
gathering the best South American BJJ veterans, Pereira won in the Master-Five medium heavyweight division.
Championships and accomplishments
Some of Pereira's accomplishments:
* Master International South America Champion (2018)
* 2 x
IBJJF World Champion
* 21 x Rio de Janeiro State Champion
* 8 x
Brazilian National Champion
Instructor lineage
Mitsuyo Maeda
,Virgílio, pp. 22–25
a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda (),Virgílio, p. 9
was a Japanese ''judōka'' (judo practitioner) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions, also being one of the first documented mixed martial artists of t ...
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Luis França >
Oswaldo Fadda >
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> Julio Cesar Pereira
Notes
References
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1964 births
Brazilian practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Living people
People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
World Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championship medalists
People awarded a coral belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Martial artists from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Martial arts school founders
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Brazilian jiu-jitsu trainers