Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Machado/Nova Uniao Purple Belt - USA Trained

[bjjprodigy]

Hi guys,

My name is Mike and I looking to start teaching BJJ in Germany. I currently train in the USA under Red Belt Carlos Machado Black Belt and are associated with Nova Uniao (but in all honesty - these things mean little to me - but I mention them because others may want to know my background).

As mentioned before, I am looking to teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Germany but I have not yet decided where. I still live in the USA but will move back to Holland soon.

If your city does not have BJJ or you know a school which is currently looking to expand and is interested in having Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in the curriculum, let me know.

I guarantee the level of BJJ is going to be amongst the highest in Germany. I am (only) a purple belt because I was injured for many years. But I am fit now. Also, I have been trained by the world's best teachers such as Carlson Gracie himself (my first teacher), Crosley Gracie, Wallid Ismael, Franco de Camargo, Bruno Bastos, and Machado.

BJJ is my life and I want to share my passion with the world. Also, my ambition is to create the best BJJ school in the Netherlands/Belgium/German area.

Finally, as I am going to leave at the border with Germany, it cannot be too far. I am willing to teach in cities such as Dusseldorf, Essen, etc. But not further than that.

I am going to shoot this in Google translate and translate it into German for the non-English speakers.

Hope to hear from you.

Regards,

Mike


GERMAN

Hallo Leute,

Mein Name ist Mike und ich uns auf dem Unterricht anfangen BJJ in Deutschland. Ich momentan in den USA trainieren unter Red Belt Carlos Machado Black Belt und sind mit Nova Uniao verbunden (aber in aller Ehrlichkeit - diese Dinge bedeuten mir wenig - aber ich erwähne sie, weil andere Vielleicht möchten Sie meinen Hintergrund wissen).

Wie bereits erwähnt, freue ich mich auf Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Deutschland zu unterrichten, aber ich habe noch nicht entschieden, wo. Ich lebe noch in den USA, sondern wird zurück nach Holland umziehen.

Wenn Sie Ihre Stadt nicht hat BJJ oder Sie wissen, eine Schule, die derzeit sucht zur Erweiterung und wird in mit Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in den Lehrplan interessiert, lass es mich wissen.

Ich garantiere, das Niveau der BJJ wird zu den höchsten in Deutschland. Ich bin (nur) einen violetten Gürtel, weil ich seit vielen Jahren verletzt wurde. Aber ich bin jetzt fit. Außerdem habe ich von den weltbesten Lehrern wie Carlson Gracie selbst Crosley Gracie, Wallid Ismael, Franco de Camargo, Bruno Bastos und Machado ausgebildet worden.

BJJ ist mein Leben und ich möchte meine Leidenschaft mit der Welt teilen. Außerdem ist mein Ehrgeiz, die besten BJJ Schule in den Niederlanden / Belgien / Deutschland zu schaffen.

Schließlich, als Ich werde an der Grenze zu Deutschland zu verlassen, kann es nicht zu weit sein. Ich bin bereit, in Städten wie Düsseldorf, Essen, etc. lehren, aber nicht darüber hinaus.

Ich werde schießen diese in Google übersetzen und übersetzen sie ins Deutsche für die nicht-englische Muttersprachler.

Hoffnung, von Ihnen zu hören.

Regards,

Mike

[MatzeOne]

Hi Mike!

Where are you training right now? In Dallas?
Any videos of you competing at purple belt level?

Don't waste your time using that crappy google translator. ;)

Greetings from L.A.
Matthias

[bjjprodigy]

What's up buddy. No I do not have images of competing because I have not competed in a while (because of my injury). And doctors have strongly advised me to never compete again. I wanted to compete in NAGA this weekend which was in Dallas but unfortunately injured my mcl in my right knee two weeks ago.

Where do you train in LA? There is no place like California to train. Well maybe NYC. But that's where it all started for me in 1999. I have probably been doing BJJ way before anyone on this forum knew what BJJ was ;-)

But I am glad it is picking up. EU will never be like the US simply because of the prices - you know like me that BJJ in the US is quite expensive. In the EU people are not willing to pay more than 30 euro's or something in that area. That is a major problem for the evolution of BJJ.

Anyways, getting carried away here. Thanks for the responds.

If could help me it would be great.

I also train under Harold Harder - Rickson Gracie BB - in the Netherlands (forgot to mention that).

[Guv´nor]

nova uniao is def. cool

machado and rickson as well. but sorry when u want to bring up a club in germany thats amng the highest level...good luck ;)

Alliance berlin,Alliance Frankfurt, sainfighting, Gracie Barra, Hilti BJJ berlin .. Barbosa Leipzig team Herb etc the list of good teams under brown and blackbelts is long. And in luta livre.. maybe even longer! Taifun, Ello, cologne combat club.

I dont wanna stop you in your motivation. But be aware its gonna be a lot of work! Especially when u go t a town where no BJJ is represented yet.

netherthe less! Good luck and success with that mission (and when u speak dutch...u should learn german, its easy for u and makes it easier for u to teach! ;) )

OSSS!

[bjjprodigy]

There are probably some good schools in Germany no doubt. But that doesn't mean other's are not good. But a name is a name ... as mentioned before it doesn't have to say anything.

Anyone who starts a school can get associated with ANY BJJ legend or school out there (as long as you pay). It's franchising buddy nothing more. Now, that said, let's say someone is trully trained from white by Alliance for many years ... these people do not even have to pay the franchise fee - that's just for schools which want to have a name for their school.

In no way am I pointing fingers - as I mentioned before - I dont know anything about the BJJ community in Germany. Most likely they are all very good schools.

For me personally; I would always train under a USA or Brazilian trained professor. But that's just me. A brown belt from the US can hold his head high anywhere they go because the USA and Brazil are the highest level of BJJ in the world period.

My ambition is to have give my students the best that I can offer them from a USA and Brazilian firsthand background.

I started BJJ under Carlson Gracie himself in 1998 when I think 99,99999999% of people on this forum didn't know what BJJ was. Unfortunately a major injury made me to stop training for a long time.

But I have seen it all my friend - but thanks for your "advice" but I'll be fine don't worry about me.

[jkdberlin]

I started BJJ under Carlson Gracie himself in 1998 when I think 99,99999999% of people on this forum didn't know what BJJ was.

Yawn...you are wrong.

Sadly enough, but it might just be me, this bad- and loudmouthing is destroying the very nice impression of you and your mentioned goals. Hope this goes away and you will concentrate on training.

Greetings

[Henry]

@ Mike: good luck to you in your goal creating germany's best BJJ school.
But i am supporting jkdberlin's message to you 100%. You are underestimating the level of BJJ in Germany by far....You are also wrong about the franchising system you are mentioning. How can you rate germany's BJJ scene if you have never been here?
Sincerely,
Henry

[bjjprodigy]

My words are being taken way out of context. I have spoken highly respectfull about the German BJJ community but in all honesty I said - I do not know.

Second, I gave my personal opinion where I would train if I would have to choose a school.

Finally, I just said (even in my first mail) that names are not that important for me because I have seen a lot of average schools with the most fancy names.

It could well be the level of BJJ is very high in Germany, I heard that someone from Munich won the worlds (don't ask me the year - just overheard some of the guys talking about it in the gym).

You guys are trying to score some cheap points by twisting my words .. fine .. happens on forums all the time. I did not and never will disrespect anyone.

But I do believe the level of BJJ in the highest in the USA en Brazil and that my friend is a fact. If anyone is offended by that statement then I think this says more about them than about the statement itself. If anyone thinks Spain or Russia or Germany or Holland has the best level of BJJ then they should stop smoking what they have been smoking because that is simply the ego talking, rather than the brain.

P.S. Just rememberd; talking about twisting my words, I never said the best school, I said; AMONGST the best schools - this is what I meant and said and I fully support it).

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That out of the way, we've decided that it will most likely be Dusseldorf (thanks for the many private messages by the way to everyone who is being a friend to the BJJ community and helping us out to bringing another good school to Germany.

[bjjprodigy]

You are also wrong about the franchising system you are mentioning.

Simply saying "you are wrong" and not comign up with arguments why I am wrong is not constructive.

I said that I can start a group and call it anything that I want; Gracie Barra, Alliance, Nova Uniau .... you name it. As long as I pay the franchise fee, I can associate myself with any school/brand name = FACT

I am not a big supporter of this system.

I did not say that any particular school does this or whatever. I just said it in general and related it to myself and my own group. We are not going to carry a name by simply paying for the brandname. We will let our BJJ do the speaking for us.

In no way am I or did I try to point any fingers to anyone because again I do nto know anything (zero) about the Germany BJJ scene as I have said over and over again.

So please stop it with the ego messages and trying to twist my words ... its getting ridiculous. You are more than welcome to post if you have constructive advice and can help us out, if not, I am an adult and have better things to do than to keep explaining what I meant to people who live to far to ever train in our area but who just want to get on a forum, start some shit, and then leave.

I hope it's all clear and cool now.

Thank you guys.

P.S. The European BJJ scene should take a HUGE lesson from the US as in the US we are one big family. Every school trains with each other, we're all friends ... no EGOS!!! In EU its always drama on the forums ... very frustrating indeed.

[Kazushi Sakuraba]

Also ich persönlich fände es gut und unterstütze den Aufbau von neuen BJJ-Schulen. Ob es nun eine unter den Besten wird, ist doch erstmal nebensächlich. Letztlich ist BJJ immernoch, für meinen Geschmack, zu rar gesäht. Neue Schulen sind mir daher immer willkommen und stärken die BJJ-Community. :)

[jkdberlin]

Also ich persönlich fände es gut und unterstütze den Aufbau von neuen BJJ-Schulen. Ob es nun eine unter den Besten wird, ist doch erstmal nebensächlich. Letztlich ist BJJ immernoch, für meinen Geschmack, zu rar gesäht. Neue Schulen sind mir daher immer willkommen und stärken die BJJ-Community. :)

Definitiv! Das unterstütze ich sofort. Nur wäre es in meinen Augen besser, sich selbst zu promoten ohne andere runterzuziehen.

[jkdberlin]

My words are being taken way out of context.

Nope, I refered to the words that are written above.
Even your new statements above are ridiculous and shows that you don't have aglue about our German BJJ and grappling scene, who was where when and why and who works together and who doesn't. It's denitly not about any people on the forum, it's all simply about your false statements. Simply don't judge anything from where you are without having any obvious background information.
Anyway, you as the sender are responsible that the right message arrives. And I just stated what message had arrived when I was reading your post.
Don't get me wrong, I welcome any new school and development containing BJJ, Grappling etc. as I don't think that this will cause economic competition. I simply would like your promotion without putting others down. Anyway, I look forward to your new group and hopefully you are successful with it, more people training and competing means simply the scene is growing!

Greets

[ivo c.]

In GSP's words: I am not impressed by your performance (here some more cheap points) :D

jokes by side...


It could well be the level of BJJ is very high in Germany, I heard that someone from Munich won the worlds (don't ask me the year - just overheard some of the guys talking about it in the gym).


The guy you are talking about is Johannes Wieth from Munich.
Sanefighting · Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu · Boxen · Kickboxen · MMA · München · Mixed Martial Arts Academy (http://www.sanefighting.de)

[bjjprodigy]

In GSP's words: I am not impressed by your performance (here some more cheap points) :D
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The school where you train is considered the holy grail you are right. No seriously, we all dream that we could only train under you one day. That would make our lives complete ...

[Pyriander]

The school where you train is considered the holy grail you are right. No seriously, we all dream that we could only train under you one day. That would make our lives complete ...

I promise you huge success as a trainer based on your nice personality, showing kindness, respect, humility and cleverness

:ironie:

[Kicker]

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[Pyriander]

I try to be a little more constructive



I said that I can start a group and call it anything that I want; Gracie Barra, Alliance, Nova Uniau .... you name it. As long as I pay the franchise fee, I can associate myself with any school/brand name = FACT

I am not a big supporter of this system.

I think, most people here would agree to that.
Also, i think, most people could also agree, that the Level in Brazil and USA is indeed very high and if someone would make an overall ranking, they would be on the top of the list - BJJ is far more often practised in these countrys - but that does not mean, that here are not great and good people, or that a brown Belt here is less worth than anywhere else. (But here simply are not that much of them)




I did not say that any particular school does this or whatever. I just said it in general and related it to myself and my own group. We are not going to carry a name by simply paying for the brandname. We will let our BJJ do the speaking for us.

That's cool and thats what the people here are doing.


I do nto know anything (zero) about the Germany BJJ scene as I have said over and over again.

P.S. The European BJJ scene should take a HUGE lesson from the US as in the US we are one big family. Every school trains with each other, we're all friends ... no EGOS!!!

In EU its always drama -

I do nto know anything (zero) about the Germany BJJ scene as I have said over and over again.

[bjjprodigy]

I really cannot believe this forum. Why is everyone out to bash others? Whats wrong with you people? We're sitting here with a bunch of guys and reading this crap and laughing our asses off.

When someone says shit and he is German or whatever ... nobody says what. But when an American responds ... some rotton apples start their bashing again.

This forum or thread was created to inform people who are interested in training BJJ that a new group will be formed soon somewhere near Duisburg/Dusseldorf. Thats it.

Why the hostility I do not know. But if you guys keep it up, not only will you make yourselves look like internet warriors, but give this forum a bad name as well as discourage people from posting important stuff like new schools etc. If you dont like what you read, just get of the thread!

editEither be constructive or go read another subject. All this negative shit is good for nothing.

[Pyriander]

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[Soldier]

Take it easy!
You just said some things wich offended people because they felt they were not true. Thats it, take the criticism instead of arguing about things you probably don't know (caused by what you have written so far i believe you have never been to germany, so how do you wanna know about the german grappling scene). Besides that, nearly everyone in this thread has encouraged you to open you school and is happy about it because it helps the grappling scene to grow. Open your school, have fun, keep on rolling and stop complaining about people who just point out mistakes you made ...

[Henry]

@bjjprodigy: Don't you you see that you are actually offending people and that you sound really arrogant. But you try to turn it around saying the you are offended by "rotton apples".

"We're sitting here with a bunch of guys and reading this crap and laughing our asses off. ... some rotton apples start their bashing again." = just some examples.

As I said before; don't underestimate the level of BJJ in Germany. I am crossing my fingers that you open up a succesful school in germany and that we will see you compete here. By the way: you won't find "MCDojos" in the german BJJ scene.

[jkdberlin]

I simply believe he is a troll.

[Jaycee]

I simply believe he is a troll.

Yep... 100% Agree...

[SaschaB]

I simply believe he is a troll.

Yep

[Keff]

Hi bjjprodigy,

Welcome to the forum :)
And good luck with your school - there should indeed be more training groups!

I just wanted to say some words about the discussion above; I guess it's a clash of cultures effect, but as you can see, people here don't react very positive to some of your posts and although I don't accuse you of doing it willingly I can promise you, with talking like that, you won't get many friends neither here nor anywhere else in germany. Here, it's a stereotype about Americans that they always talk very...selfconfident, so there appear to be some differences in discussion culture.
And if someone say things like


I guarantee the level of BJJ is going to be amongst the highest in Germany.



EU will never be like the US


I started BJJ under Carlson Gracie himself in 1998 when I think 99,99999999% of people on this forum didn't know what BJJ was.


A brown belt from the US can hold his head high anywhere they go because the USA and Brazil are the highest level of BJJ in the world period.


But I do believe the level of BJJ in the highest in the USA en Brazil and that my friend is a fact. If anyone is offended by that statement then I think this says more about them than about the statement itself. If anyone thinks Spain or Russia or Germany or Holland has the best level of BJJ then they should stop smoking what they have been smoking because that is simply the ego talking, rather than the brain.


The European BJJ scene should take a HUGE lesson from the US as in the US we are one big family. Every school trains with each other, we're all friends ... no EGOS!!!,

in Germany, it simply means:

"I have actually no clue about how good you are, but we are the best, you all suck and should be happy to learn from us. Also, if you think different, you are in idiot."

I think nobody here really thinks that you meant to say something like this, but that's what it sounds like.
Being humble is alway a good thing, especially when it comes to Martial Arts.
(Also, nobody said that Germany was better at BJJ than the US!)

I hope this helps a little bit to get rid of this confusion ;)
It's always hard to go to a new country and suddenly have to deal with all those differences one usually never thinks about before.

Greetings, Keff

[LeonKeta]

Hope you can come and train here in Essen,I would defenetily come and train at your gym !!!