Anyone with recommendations for Brazil? :)
This blog post have been a long time under way. I am finally reaching Brazil, the birthplace of the sport I have traveled the world on for four months, trained for more than ten years and has been making a living of for six.
I don’t really have any plans for Brazil yet. I don’t know where to go or where to train, so I need your help! :)
I have a few options already, but I want to keep all possibilities open, so if anyone of you readers have connections or recommendations for where to go, train or what to do in Brazil, please email me or leave a comment on this post.
I would love to train as many places as possible, but I am also quite limited financially. This is the end of my trip and I am pretty much running out of money, so I can’t afford to pay a lot of money for training each place (just had to buy a $2000 one way ticket from Brazil to Europe today, oh shit that hurt :D). I prefer to wash the mats or perform a magic show or something for training, but I know things work differently in Brazil. Of course, every place I go will also get some exposure on my 2000-gringo-readers-a-day amazing BJJ blog if that helps anything.
Besides that, if anyone is in Brazil and want to meet up for training, surfing or maybe one (1) beer, feel free to contact me, I am up for anything.
I will be staying with my friends in Connection Rio, which is a really cool house for foreigners who are going to Rio for training. I don’t know for how long yet, maybe I will move around in Brazil a bit, maybe I will stay in Rio for two weeks before I head to Europe. Will look into that when I get there and have an overview of my options :)
James
I train under alliance and i’ll actually be going to rio next month for 3 weeks and i’ll be training at Alexandre gigi Paivas’ school in Leblon. Gigi is an awesome guy with sick jiu jitsu and has a great school.
Jun 20, 2011 @ 21:20
Arthur
Send a mail to Olivier Miller, I’m sure you’ve got his email adress somewhere, he just received the visit of a few guys from BTT (betinho Correia I believe, and 2 other black belts), they just came back to Brazil, I’m sure they’d be happy to receive you!
Jun 20, 2011 @ 22:14
Sean
You are in good hands with Connection Rio and Dennis Asche. Dennis is a class act and great help to all the BJJ gringos who visit. If you’ve only got two weeks I’d hang in Rio and train at Gordo’s Academy–tons of fun and tons of talent there.
Love your trip–thanks for sharing all your experiences.
Jun 20, 2011 @ 23:22
Logan
If you’re looking for a place outside the hustle and bustle of Rio, I can put you in touch with the Checkmat team down in Santos. I trained down there in November and they are really great! Let me know! osssss
Jun 21, 2011 @ 01:06
graham cooke
Have you checked out http://www.bjjhacks.com? Hywel Teague former editor of Fighters Only runs it and he is out in Brazil (rio) right now I believe.
You can bet he has some great contacts and might be able to hook you up and would probably love to chat to you for his site too. Everyones a winner :)
Jun 21, 2011 @ 12:31
Rod
I read your blog and I’m not a gringo. =)
Jun 22, 2011 @ 02:43
Marko
I’m so happy for you man. I hope to do a trip to rio next year definitely! Pictures look amazing and that hill is a freakin mountain! how high is that?
Jun 22, 2011 @ 05:13
leonardo SP
If you are interested in train BJJ in São Paulo, at Cia Paulista Team, in july / 2011, just let me know. I am a purple belt and train every day. I have a free home stay available during july. My idea is help someone and pratice my english.
team web site: http://cpjj.org/home.html
Jul 02, 2011 @ 05:27