Paulo Sergio, Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor, black belt 4th Dan, represents the prestigious Alliance team. He is six times world champion masters & seniors, 5 times Brazilian champion, Overall Brazilian champion, twice Europe champion, twice Overall Europe. He is also an international referee in the CBJJ.

When Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) was a young man, his parents had him committed to mental hospitals three times because he wanted to be an artist--an unacceptable profession in Brazil at the time. During his numerous forced incarcerations he vowed to write some day about his experiences and the injustices of involuntary commitment. In this fable-like novel, Coelho makes good on his promise, with the creation of a fictional character named Veronika who decides to kill herself when faced with all that is wrong with the world and how powerless she feels to change anything.

This seminar was a follow up workshop for a friend in Philadelphia filmed July 7, 2010. During the seminar, "little" Tony explored many awesome techniques and strategies on guard passing using the "Sao Paulo Approach" of redirecting the legwork and controlling the opponent's hips effectively. Learn these movements and take your grappling skills to the next level!
Soulfight.net not only filmed the seminar in great detail, but also shot each move at a secondary location from two different angles so that nothing could be missed! This is the best drop-in class you can attend if you want to learn how to...

It’s the second largest city on earth – and the most important city in Brazil. More than 10 million people live in Sao Paulo. But fitting people isn’t a problem. The challenge is the city’s trash. Every day, Sao Paulo generates 14,000 tons of garbage — the weight of the leaning Tower of Pisa. Sao Paulo has embarked on a green revolution by harnessing hectares of trash to produce energy. Aluminum cans are the most recycled object on earth, and Brazil leads the way when it comes not only to recycling them, but the speed at which it’s done. This episode follow one aluminum can from the time it is picked by one of the catadores – the trash-pickers of Sco Paulo who make their living from collecting recyclables – through pressing, melting, and re-melting, to the moment it is ready to become a new can.

The Zahir is a 2005 novel from the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho. Similarly to an earlier book, The Alchemist, the Zahir is about pilgrimage. The book touches on themes of love, loss and obsession.