Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is a martial art and combat sport that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting with the goal of gaining a dominant position and using joint-locks and chokeholds to force an opponent to submit. The art was based on early 20th century Kodokan Judo ,[2][1] which was itself then a recently-developed system (founded in 1882).

The art began with Mitsuyo Maeda (aka Conde Koma, or Count Combat in English), a Japanese expert judoka and member of the Kodokan. Maeda was one of five of the Kodokan's top groundwork experts that Judo's founder Kano Jigoro sent overseas to spread his art to the world. Maeda left Japan in 1904 and visited a number of countries[2] giving "jiu-do" demonstrations and accepting challenges from wrestlers, boxers, savate fighters and various other martial artists before eventually arriving in Brazil on November 14, 1914.[4]

It is often claimed that BJJ is a development of traditional Japanese jujutsu, and that Maeda was a jujutsuka. However, Maeda never trained in jujutsu. He first trained in sumo as a teenager, and after the interest generated by stories about the success of judo at contests between judo and jujutsu that were occurring at the time, he changed from sumo to judo, becoming a student of Kano's Kodokan judo.[2] He was promoted to 7th dan in Kodokan judo the day before he died in 1941.

Helio Gracie himself had already risen to the rank of 6th dan in judo by the time of his fight against Kimura in 1951.[7]

About Victor Huber

• Instructor for Royler Gracie Team at the Riecimo da Silva Sports Center in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (1997-2000)
• Instructor for Gracie Yacht Club in Rio de Janiero, Brazil (1997-present)
• Represented Relson Gracie in Texas, North Carolina and Ohio
• Instructor for Royler Gracie Team in Governor Island, Rio de Janiero (2001-2006)
• Head Instructor for North Florida Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (2006-2007)
• Head Instructor for Victor Huber BJJ in Atlantic Beach, FL (2007-present)

• 3rd Place- Pro Division Heavyweight, Gracie Worlds 2006
• 1st Place- Pro Division Heavyweight, Gracie Worlds 2005
• 3-Time Super Super Heavyweight Champion Black Belt Division, Rio de Janiero
• 1st Place- Pro Division Open Weight Class, Smack Down in H-Town, Houston, TX
• 3rd Place- Pro Division Heavyweight, Gracie Worlds 2004
• 1st Place- National Gracie USA Cup, Ohio, 2004
• 2nd Place- NAGA National Grappling Tournament, Atlanta, GA 2004

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