Rodrigo Freitas-Valle Vaghi
Instructor and ranked competitor representing Team Vaghi Headquarters.
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Rodrigo Vaghi is the head of Team Vaghi, the Rickson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu association headquartered in Ellisville, Missouri, in the St. Louis area. He taught at the original Gracie Academy in Brazil and was a student of Helio Gracie and of Rickson Gracie, with whom he shares a lifelong friendship that the school says has shaped his style as both competitor and instructor. A sixth-degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Vaghi is described as one of the pioneers of jiu-jitsu in the United States and the highest-ranking black belt in the St. Louis area. All classes at the headquarters are taught either by him or by senior students he has trained, and his teaching has reached students from many professions, including doctors, lawyers and police officers.