How many Jiu-Jitsu practitioners can you find that began training in the art of BJJ and has literally lived on the mats as a toddler that doesn’t have the last name Gracie? Well I have found one. This individual has been training in the gentle art since he was 5 years old.
Ryan Brinkman is a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and is the manager of Daniel Moraes’ academy in Jacksonville, Florida, which has become one of the fastest growing BJJ academies in the southern part of the US.
Daniel Moraes is a 3rd degree Royler Gracie black belt and leader of Relson Gracie Jacksonville.
Moraes has an unbelievable competition record and list of accolades at every level of grappling that has put him in the upper echelon of all Brazilian Jiu-jitsu fighters. He won gold in the Mundials as a blue belt (1999), purple belt (2000), and black belt (2003 and 2004). Daniel has accomplished or exceeded the same at the Pan-Ams, Brasiliaro’s, and other major BJJ tournaments.
Because Daniel has been on the competition circuit since he was a teenager and because he is primarily focused on his academy and his students at this point in his career he can sometimes be overlooked as a competitor.
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Daniel’s goal is to produce fighters that meet or exceed what he has been able to accomplish.
Daniel, who possesses some of the best wrestling skills and take downs in the grappling world, counts Royler Gracie, Relson Gracie, Marcelo Clemente, and Darrel Gholar as instructors that have been instrumental in his development as a fighter and teacher. He has come a long way as a teacher as he has mastered articulating jiu-jitsu that will work for practitioners of every style and body type.
This natural guard passer has a knowledge base that includes a mix of old school BJJ with the new cutting edge techniques of the new school. It can be difficult to find someone that has an accomplished athletic career that has world class coaching skills and can develop even the most novice of practitioners or athletes.
Generally you find great athletes or competitors that are still developing their teaching and coaching skills or great coaches who didn’t have the most stellar of athletic or competitive careers. Daniel Moraes is the exception. He is one of the best kept secrets in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Moraes loves sharing the art of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
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Daniel Moraes has an unbelievable competition record and list of accolades at every level of grappling that has put him in the upper echelon of all Brazilian Jiu-jitsu fighters.
Стас Варшавский / ТОП 5 ошибок новичков / черный пояс по бразильскому джиу джитсу/кепка +5 к харизма
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