Rafael 'Formiga' Barbosa

[leach_jeffrey]

Hey, my instructor just took third in the Adult Black Belt Open division in the Miami International Open this past weekend. To celebrate, here's a clip of him.

http://www.youtube.com/v/XrBmjS0fPLs?fs=1&hl=en_US

That's the only no-gi clip I can find of him on youtube. He does mostly gi. Anyway, he loves the butterfly guard and works the half guard in no-gi, so you'll probably enjoy the clip. He does a lot of things that are similar to 10th planet techniques and this is a pretty high energy match.

Enjoy!

[Nick Powers]

Just wanted to bump this thread, seeing as I just attended a seminar with Formiga today. It was incredible, the guy is amazing and you weren't kidding about the butterfly guard, we must have learned three or four different sweeps/techniques to submissions from butterfly guard today.

He also won at Grappler's Quest (in No Gi) a little while back in April, here's an article on that event: http://www.mmaindc.com/grapplers-quest-boe-1/