Bernardo Faria Is The Instructor You Always Wanted
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BJJ Legend Bernardo Faria Brings you the Best BJJ on The Planet
When you watch instructional material from Bernardo Faria, you can not help but be struck by the passion and genuine excitement he possesses for BJJ. He often smiles from ear to ear while learning new techniques from hundreds of practitioners all over the world. After a wildly successful competition career, he has turned his sights to providing the BJJ community with instruction from the best BJJ players on the planet along with other heavy hitters from the combat world. Faria continues to circle the globe, mining BJJ secrets, and developing a hub for the best BJJ resources on the planet via BJJ Fanatics.
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Bernardo Faria began training BJJ in in Juez de Fora in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil in 2001 at the age of 14. There, he trained under Ricardo Marquez. Two years later, he tried out for his first major competition, the World Cup (CBJJO). He lost, but came back strong the following year, winning silver in his weight class and bronze in the open weight division. Faria earned his blue belt that same year, and with each new belt, he earned significant titles and achievements. As a blue belt he earned two silver medals at the Mundial World Championships. As a purple belt, in 2006, he became the Brazilian National Cup Champion and a Word Champion in the Absolute Division, among countless other titles and awards. As a brown belt, which he was awarded in 2007, he reached second place in his division at the World Championship.
In 2008, he received his black belt from Ricardo Marquez. Faria then decided to move to Sao Paulo to join Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training there and acquiring many more titles, Faria moved once again in 2013, this time to NYC, to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Faria won the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, winning the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking. He was also chosen as the best athlete of 2015, then in 2016, he broke the record of Open Class Champions of the Pan-Ams, submitting all of his opponents and winning his third Pan-Ams Open Class title.
Is this 5x World Champion’s record making you tired just reading it? Fear not! This super-human of the grappling world is willing to share some of his super powers. Bernardo Faria’s instructionals are the perfect addition to any BJJ players practice. He brings 17 years’ worth of championships, experience, expertise, and teaching to each of his instructionals. Check out this short documentary about Bernardo, and get to know him a little better!
Faria has established himself as one of the leading minds in Jiu-Jitsu. He has quite the library of information available both on his YouTube Channel and more in-depth content available at BJJFANATICS!
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