Influential Practitioners

People whose work changed what the rest of us do on the mat.

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De la Riva, and the guard that took his name
A hook behind one leg solved a specific problem in a specific room in Rio in the early 1980s, and the widely repeated account of when it happened does not agree with itself.
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Carlson Gracie
He replaced the private lesson with the group class and the family with the team, and in doing so invented the thing every competition academy now copies.

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