Américo Leite Chaves Neto

Américo Neto is the professor at Roots of Old School, a jiu-jitsu school in Guarujá, São Paulo. He holds a second-degree black belt and is a student of Grão Mestre Reylson Gracie, a ninth-degree red belt. His diplomas come from the Confederação Brasileira de Jiu Jitsu and the IBJJF, as well as the Confederação Brasileira de Jiu Jitsu Profissional and the IPJJF. He began training in 2011 in Guarujá with the ACJJ team led by professor Antônio Cicconi, who now lives in the United States. After earning his black belt, he chose to specialise in self-defence techniques and the philosophy of Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Reylson Gracie, focusing on how to survive a real fight while passing on the art's philosophical principles.