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Dmitry Fomichev (left) with Grand Master Rorion Gracie, the oldest son of Helio Gracie in the Academy

GRACIE JIU-JITSU: KOVROV - LOS ANGELES (July 2010)
Distant 90-s ... .. more specifically in 1993 in Russia appeared the first video cassette with an awful name of "fighting without rules." For the first time we have seen fights in which there was no weight classes, time limits, the men who went in and what the most important thing is not restrictions on the use of technology, "not"-it was a small gentleman's set .. and all .. You enter the cage and remained alone with the enemy. Taking part in fights boxers, wrestlers, karate, sumoists, kickboxers ... all trying to prove that their style is the strongest in the world. It was the first UFC-main battle championship "Octagon".
That's when the world learned of the martial art of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) when the first four championships for the family Gracie Gracie Heuss simply swept aside all in its path with the weight a little more than 70kg. He left no chance to anyone ... did not matter nor weight of the enemy nor his style. Gracie Jiu-jitsu has turned the world of martial arts.
In 1989. The family opened the first Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in the U.S., in California in the city of Torrance. ... .. And now, after 17 years in Kovrov an opportunity to get acquainted with this legendary martial arts as they say directly "through a handshake by Fomichev DV - one of the early Russian pioneers in terms of research, import and development of Gracie Jiu -jitsu in Russia and especially in his hometown Kovrov. It became very fashionable to invite western masters of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Russia at a master class in just one or two days, as is done in Moscow. Many people ask Dmitry rather than easier to travel to Moscow to participate in seminars conducted by Western masters, so it's easier and cheaper to manage. To which he replied: "I prefer to drink spring water from the source, but not from a plastic bottle at home! You have no idea what makes only one contact with these great people who are not in one seminar you do not imbued with all my heart in the art including such "delicate" issues as a philosophy of Gracie, Gracie diet. teaching methods, etc..
9800 km.and 13 hours to overcome to get to the famous Academy of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu in California, it is so much twice a year, Dmitry Fomichev overcomes this distance to get to the heart of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu GRACIE JIU-JITSU ACADEMY. At the end of this year, will receive the status of a family member Gracie, opening a certified center in Russia in particular Kovrov. "I would give all his black belt at a belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu," the same words can be heard occasionally from members of other styles of martial arts.
At the peak of the popularity of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Russia is not that enterprising instructors of other styles, usually Japanese jiu-jitsu, immediately turned into instructors Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I would like to remind those who are interested in this legendary martial arts, in Russia, only three major centers are developing intensively, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu is in Moscow "Gracie Barra" on the basis of the club «Lion», in Rybinsk "Beverly Hills" and we in Kovrov Russian Gracie Jiu-jitsu Garage (1 st Academy of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu in Torrance, California). So avoid the fakes!
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