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Cleveland
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy
The
Rush Fitness Complex
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Keith Street
Cleveland,
TN 37312
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Atlanta
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Pedro
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AFFILIATION
Cleveland
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy: Pedro Sauer Team
is an affiliate school under Sifu Alan
Baker, Atlanta Martial Arts Center.
Sifu
Alan Baker
Professor
Pedro Sauer
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Professor
Pedro Sauer
Certified 8th Degree Red/Black Belt Instructor under
Rickson Gracie
BIOGRAPHY
Personal History
Professor Pedro Sauer was born and raised in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, where from an early age, he began
training in the martial arts. At age five, he began
boxing and later took up judo and taekwondo. At age
fifteen, however, his friend, Rickson Gracie, invited
him to train jiu-jitsu with his younger brother,
Royler, who at the time was only nine years old. The
outcome of this experience convinced him that
jiu-jitsu was the most effective of all the martial
arts, and he began training the very next day.
Pedro worked towards a double major (Economics and
Business Administration) in college, and took post
graduation course at Fundacao Getulio Vargas. He
worked in Brazil as a stockbroker for eleven years
before deciding to move to the United States and
pursue a career teaching jiu-jitsu. In 1990, he moved
to California with the original wave of Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu instructors. He lived in California with
Rickson Gracie and trained daily with the Gracie
brothers (Rickson, Rorion, and Royce), their father,
Helio Gracie, their cousin, Renzo Gracie, and the
Machado Brothers, as well as many others. In December
of that same year, he moved to Utah where he has lived
for the past eight years, pioneering brazilian
jiu-jitsu in the American southwest.
Certifications
- 1985 - Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from
Helio and Rickson Gracie
- 1986 - Tecnico de Jiu-Jitsu. This is a special
certificate given in recognition of superior
technical mastery of the art of jiu-jitsu, given
to only a handful of students by Helio Gracie.
- 1990 - Certified Black Belt Instructor by Robson
Gracie and the Federacao de Jiu-Jitsu
- Black Belt Judo
- 1993 - 3rd Degree Black Belt from Rorion Gracie
- 1996 - Level 6 Instructor Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Academy (Rorion and Royce Gracie)
- 2000 - 5th Degree Black Belt under the Federacao
de Jiu-Jitsu
- 2003 - 6th Degree Black Belt
Teaching
Experience
Pedro Earned his Black Belt from Helio and Rickson in
1985. Long recognized for the superior technical
efficiency of his jiu-jitsu, he then began his career
as an instructor in 1986 when asked to teach with an
organization known in Brazil as Corpo/Quatro (Body of
Four) where he taught and continued his training under
renowned jiu-jitsu instructors Alvaro Barreto (who is
a red belt master under Helio Gracie).
After moving to Utah in December of 1990, he taught as
one of only two non-Gracie black belts under the
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy (run by Rorion and Royce
Gracie). In October of 1996, he became an official
representative Black Belt Instructor under the Rickson
Gracie American Jiu-Jitsu Association.
Currently, Pedro resides in Virginia where he
instructs at One Spirit Martial Arts and at Jeff
Gordon's Self Defense Academy. He also has
several affiliated schools across the country, and he
visits them on a regular basis to give intensive
instruction to the students and instructors. He is one
of the most highly sought after instructors in the
U.S. (of any martial discipline) and has presented
hundreds of public seminars around the nation.
Military and Law
Enforcement Agencies:
Pedro works extensively with military groups in
Virginia, including the Marines and various groups
from the Navy SEAL teams (including the snipers). He
has also trained FBI and CIA agents in Texas. SWAT
teams in Colorado and Utah. Also in Utah, Pedro has
trained the police in Provo, Orem, DARE officers, the
Sheriffs department in Salt Lake City, POST (Police
Officer's Standard Training) in SLC, and also the Orem
Fire Department.
Pedro's skill, confidence, and fearlessness as a
jiu-jitsu practitioner win him the respect of all that
work with him. However, it is through his sincere
personality, his passion for teaching, and his ability
to transfer his skills to his students in an efficient
and professional manner, that he has earned the
loyalty of students across the nation, and has
established himself as one of the premiere military
and law enforcement instructors in the U.S.
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