short biography of helio Gracie

Helio Gracie was a martial art expert. He named his style Jiu-Jitsu. He was born on October 1, 1913 in Belem do Para, Brazil. His skill in martial art had begun since he was teen. He trained Jujutsu class. He and his brother Carlos Gracie established Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Helio Gracie was nominated as the Man of the year on Black Belt Magazine in 1997. He also had high rank in Judo. He held 6th dan.


Helio Gracie had some children. They are Rickson Gracie, Royler Gracie, Royce Gracie, Relson Gracie, and Rorion Gracie. Rorion Gracie was the co-founder of Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ).

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu looked like Judo but Helio Gracie had developed and adapted some techniques. He created Gracie Jiu-Jitsu that later became Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He adapted some Judo movement through long experiment. He learned to modify some techniques that suitable for small person. Judo’s movements sometimes were not appropriate for one whose small body. Gracie’s works had enabled small people to defend themselves and beat bigger opponents.

Helio Gracie started his pro fighter in 1932. He fought professional boxer Antonio, Portugal. He battled with professional wrestler Fred Ebert in the same year. He challenged professional wrestler from Polish, Wladek Zbyszko in 1934. Even though Wladek was twice bigger than Gracie, he could not win the fight. The fight was draw. Gracie overcame Taro Miyake, a judoka from Japan.





Gracie had some fights with Japanese Judoka. He fought Namiki in 1932. The fight had no winner. A sumo and Judoka Massagoishi was defeated when he fought against Gracie. Gracie was draw with Yasauici. He had match with Judoka Yukio Kato twice. First fight was at Maracana Stadium when there was no the winner. The second match was at Ibirapuera Stadium in Sao Paulo won by Gracie.

Masahiko Kimura defeated Gracie with reverse ude-garami (arm entanglement, shoulderlock) in 1951. Later, Brzilian Jiu-Jitsu named the technique as Kimura Lock as an honor to Kimura’s win. Gracie died on January 29, 2009 at the age 90.

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