Luiz Guilherme Fernandes de Jesus

Luiz Guilherme, known as Guigo, is the founder and lineage head of Guigo Jiu-Jitsu, a network of academies headquartered in São Paulo that the school describes as the largest Jiu-Jitsu network in Brazil, with 71 units in Brazil and abroad. He has practised Jiu-Jitsu for more than 40 years and taught for 20. He began in 1980 at the age of six under Mestre Jorge Pereira, a student of Rickson Gracie, and it was through Pereira that he received his black belt, giving the team a lineage running from Mitsuyo Maeda through Carlos, Helio and Rickson Gracie to Jorge Pereira. As a competitor, Guigo was World Champion in 1997, third at the 1998 Worlds, World runner-up in 2002 and 2009, Pan-American champion in 1996 and 1998, and a seven-time Brazilian champion.

Associations

Academia Eduardo Santoro

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