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He named his style 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu, and it was predicated on using flexibility and unusual positions to control and submit opponents. So Bravo traveled to Hollywood and opened his own Jiu-Jitsu school in Legends MMA gym and started developing his own style of no gi Jiu-Jitsu. To move jiu-jitsu and keep it competitive in MMA, Bravo decided that he would explore his creativity in the realm of no gi only. As a result, he had front row seats to the evolution of MMA and the decline of the dominance of Jiu-Jitsu fighters as wrestlers began to enter the sport and train to defend against jiu-jitsu.Д«ravo theorized that the problem was that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu had imported the gi from Japan and that the art was overly reliant on the gi.

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His friend and fellow student of Machado, Joe Rogan had become a commentator with the UFC and helped Bravo get a job on the TV production side.

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Upon returning home, Jean-Jacques Machado awarded Bravo his black belt, and Bravo wanted to use his newfound celebrity by starting his own school.Д«ravo wanted to explore the full potential of the positions he had been experimenting with, but he also had a fascination with MMA. His victory over Royler Gracie sent shockwaves through the jiu-jitsu community and made him an instant celebrity. Their match ended up becoming an all time classic, as Bravo was able to secure a triangle choke, becoming the first American to force a Gracie to tap.Д®ddie then lost his semifinal match against Leonardo Vieira and his bronze medal match against Alexandre 'Soca' De Freitas, but it was an impressive showing for a brown belt. At the time Royler was a four-time Mundials champion and two-time ADCC champion no one had ever even scored a point against Royler at ADCCs before this match. In his next match Bravo was faced with one of the greatest grapplers from the 1990s, Royler Gracie. BravoвЂ™s first match was against Gustavo Dantas, which sadly was not taped, but Bravo was able to win via rear naked choke. So Eddie Bravo, not yet a black belt, traveled to Sao Paulo in 2003 to take part in the ADCC 65kg bracket. Bravo finished first, winning a cash bonus for the 'Most Technical Fighter of the Night' Award.

In late 2002, Bravo entered the North American Trails for the ADCC Submission Grappling Tournament, a qualifier for the toughest no gi competition in the world. Bravo was an avid competitor and began to incorporate his creativity in competitions. He also began experimenting with what would become the Rubber Guard. Bravo began experimenting with this maneuver to submit opponents, renaming the move ' The Twister' so not to confuse it with the guillotine choke. Bravo quickly soaked up MachadoвЂ™s unique style of jiu-jitsu, training in the gi and out of it.Д«ravo began drawing on his wrestling background, remembering a pinning maneuver called the guillotine and the extreme pain it caused. In 1994, Eddie Bravo was a young twenty-something martial arts enthusiast who had wrestled in high school when he walked into Jean-Jacques MachadoвЂ™s academy. His academy in Southern California is one of the oldest U.S. In the early 2000s he won a gold and two silvers in three trips to ADCCs.

As a result Jean-Jacques, while an able gi grappler, became an elite no gi grappler.