Celebrate Bernardo Faria’s birthday the right way by watching this interview
Bernardo Faria turns 28 today! The two-time black belt world champion who currently trains and teaches at Marcelo Garcia Academy in New York City is…
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Prankster Marcelo Garcia at it again with three new surprise black belt promotions
When Marcelo Garcia runs his promotion nights at Marcelo Garcia Academy in New York City, he makes sure to leave some level of surprise. It…
Insight into the Marcelo Garcia brown belt dream team: history, techniques, discussion
At Marcelo Garcia Academy in New York City, there is a team of athletes who have been sweeping tournaments. They came on the rise last…
Exclusive: Leandro Lo & Felipe Pena train at Marcelo Garcia Academy in NYC
While in town for the IBJJF NY Pro and/or seminars, the two Copa Podio stars Leandro Lo of Cicero Costha and Felipe "Preguica" Pena of…
Worlds No-Gi brown belts: Marcelo Garcia students sweep absolute, featherweight tops females
The brown belts at the 2014 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship fought their matches on Sunday, Oct. 5 inside the Felix Event Center in Azusa,…
Video: Bernardo Faria discusses his beginnings and training at Marcelo Garcia Academy
Black belt world champion Bernardo Faria of Alliance is an instructor and student of Marcelo Garcia Academy in New York City. In this video interview…
Marcelo Garcia student Dillon Danis recalls the best lessons learned from his teacher
After the double gold at the 2014 IBJJF New York Open, a brown belt taught by star Marcelo Garcia gained prominence in the Jiu-Jitsu scene. Dillon…
Bernardo Faria talks Worlds and his blue belt half guard against Rodolfo Vieira
A lot of times we remember Jiu-Jitsu athletes in terms of their accomplishments or better yet, their signature moves. For the Mendes brothers it's the…
Exclusive video: Bernardo Faria shows two drills for entering deep half guard
Bernardo Faria is known for his deep half guard-- it's the position he used to earn three black belt world titles. While teaching in New…
Video: Learn the cartwheel armbar that helped earn the brown belt world title for Marcos Silva
The brown belt middleweight world champion of 2014 has put together a video featuring how to complete one of the crazy submissions that led him…
Video: Watch the match between Rafa Mendes and Gianni Grippo at 2014 Europeans
Rafael Mendes of GMA Art of Jiu-Jitsu Academy and Gianni Grippo of GMA Marcelo Garcia Academy both traveled to Lisbon, Portugal on short notice to…
Video: Marcelo’s tricky plan and Gianni Grippo’s black belt promotion speech
Check out exactly how GMA member Marcelo Garcia promoted his fourth black belt, Gianni Grippo and what Gianni had to say about the promotion: