renzo gracie academy

[Alan Smith]

hey can any of you guys tell me which academy john danaher, ricardo almeida, edger, and rezo himself train/teach?

[Chris Herzog]

Welcome to the Renzo Gracie Affiliation website

[Jeff V]

Welcome to the Renzo Gracie Affiliation website

Legit lol

[Alan Smith]

hahaha i dont mean any disrespect, just curious. Im thinking about going to new york sometime

[Kevin Vallery]

Renzo in in Manhattan I think. Ricardo teaches in Hamilton NJ. I trained there for a few years. Tough guys, and I know Ricardo Almeida respects Eddie's techniques. I caught two gogos, from rubber guard with him watching, and he was giving me advice on my technique. Great teacher too, just like Eddie, although a bit more traditional. lol

[Alan Smith]

thanks friend. im stuck on what one to go to, what one do you recomend?

[Sam Sales]

hahaha i dont mean any disrespect, just curious. Im thinking about going to new york sometime

If going to NY, Marcelo's is a must surely? :-)

[Kevin Vallery]

I'm with Sam. in NY city you have the best of both.

[Alan Smith]

@sam im panning 2 trips the first is to marcelos then then renzos

[Ric]

And the crazy thing is, Renzo is on 30th between 7th and 8th Ave and Marcelo is on 26th between 7th and 8th Ave. They are literally minutes away from each other. I love Renzo. He's one of my all time favorite Gracies. And although I've only met him for seconds at a time on a couple of occasions, he seems like a super nice person. However...

The Marcelo Garcia Academy is in a magical time right now that may not last forever. Marcelo teaches 2 classes a day and rolls with anybody who asks during each of those classes. He's constantly coming up with new stuff. He's still considered one of the best in the world. He's already produced 2 world champions, Henrique (Black Belt) and Jonathan Satava (Purple Belt) and there may be more to come. It's like when you look at an old Renzo academy picture and see Renzo all sweaty on the mat, and next to him are blue belts Matt Serra, and Ricardo Almeda, and Ryan Gracie is rolling in the background. OK, I've never seen that exact photo, but you get my point. We are only 3 years into Marcelo being in NYC and it's a magical time right now. I don't know if it will last forever. But while its here, I welcome everyone to take advantage of it.

I posted this video here previously. It's my favorite video that I've shot at the (old) academy. It's 30 minutes after class and there's Marcelo sitting on a mat that is covered in sweat still going over techniques with his students. It's like a free private class.



And sorry for hijacking the thread. Nothing against Renzo. I even enrolled my 7 year old daughter at Renzo's for several months last summer.

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