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- Andre Almeida Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and known as “the Maker of Champions”, Andre “Dedeco” Almeida is a keystone of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in New England. He began his jiu-jitsu career in 1986 and is a 5th degree black belt under pioneer Ricardo Liborio.
- Andre Almeida: I am 24 years old and have been practicing Jiu-Jitsu since I was 13 years old. My mother never really wanted me to start Jiu-Jitsu and like 90% of the kids in Brazil I always was really into soccer.
André’s four medals won at the 2018 Chicago Open. Courtesy of André Almeida
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A high-performance athlete with numerous victories in some of the toughest tournaments int he world, André Almeida wants to have an even stronger campaign in 2019. After suffering from an injury for almost an entire season and covering, thanks to BJJ, this beast is now on the loose again.
A representative of Gracie Barra, André appears in the IBJJF rankings as one of the top best 20 fighters of his division, and his accelerating pace since last year is nothing to scoff at.
“For a few years now I’ve been fighting to build a solid career in the competitive scene,” he says. “At the start of 2017 I broke my foot fighting and went for a big chunk of that season recovering and training to make a comeback. The year 2018 was much better; it was phenomenal to me. I finished second at the No-Gi Pan, in New York. That was very cool.”
Last year saw André compete a whole lot. In the process of climbing to the top 20, wins came in IBJJF Opens in Las Vegas, Denver, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago and Austin. “Now, for this 2019 season, I want to hit the ground running even harder to win even more titles, focus on the more important championships, like the Pan and the Worlds,” he adds. “In 2016, as well as winning medals at the IBJJF Pan, I also won the ADCC Nationals in the U.S. in gi and no-gi (a really tough tournament), and I intend to fight once again under ADCC rules this year.”
André topping the Atlanta Open podium last year, in a hard-fought gi division. IBJJF
Of course, the life of a BJJ champion usually includes teaching, and André is happy to share the knowledge he acquired over years of training at Gracie Barra. “The year 2018 was algo good to dedicate myself to teaching,” he tells us. “I taught many seminars in America, at Gracie Barra branches in Santa Barbara, Aurora, Deerfield, West Lancaster and others.”
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André’s goal is to put himself at the top of his division this year, already fully recovered from past injuries and training intelligently — and harder than ever.
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Professor Andre Almeida was born in the City of Barra da Tijuca, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He started training when he was 12 years old in the very first Gracie Barra school founded by Master Carlos Gracie Jr., our headquarters in Brazil.
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A interesting fact about the origins of our Team is that the name Gracie Barra comes from the fact that the first ever school was located in the City of Barra da Tijuca, so the name comes from a junction of the Gracie family name (Master Carlos Gracie Jr. last name) and the first name of our home town.
Professor Andre Almeida has a long history in the sport of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu having trained all around the world in various Gracie Barra Schools, competed at the highest level of the sport (U.S. National Champion, State Champion in many States and multiple times medalist at the Pan Ams championship and others), trained many high level competitors in Jiu-Jitsu and MMA as well as an expert specialized in training the Armed Forces having taught in the United States the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force.
Professor has earned his Black Belt after 15 years of training the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has traveled the world teaching seminars, workshops and spreading the word of Jiu-Jitsu. Professor Andre strongly believes that if everyone trained Jiu-Jitsu the world would be a better place, so our mission is to do for others what Jiu-Jitsu has done for us.
It’s hard to envision how Jiu-Jitsu can help the world if you have never trained, but in essence what we believe – and see it happening at the school time after time – is that through challenges and overcoming, victory and defeat, toughness and smoothness of training you find out much more about how you are than you ever known, and by discovering your deep self you enter in a path of self-improvement that allows you to become a better version of yourself, which leads to doing our part for a better world, as Mahatma Gandhi said “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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