Carlos Machado

Carlos Machado Carlos Machado is one of the pioneers of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in the United States of America. Currently a Coral Belt, and promoted to Black Belt by Carlos Gracie Junior, Carlos Machado came to the USA in the early 1990's with his brothers where they formed the RCJ Machado Jiu Jitsu Association, one of the strongest & growing BJJ organizations in the world today. Carlos Machado's Jiu Jitsu History Full Name: Carlos Machado Current Belt: Coral Lineage: Kano - Mitsuyo Maeda - Carlos Gracie Sr. - Carlos Machado Carlos Machado Biography - Back in Brazil Carlos Machado was born on the 9th of November, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the eldest of the Machado brothers (cousins to the Gracie's from Carlos Gracie Senior's sister in law, Luiza Machado). The Machado brothers consist of: Carlos, Roger, Rigan, Jean Jacques and John Machado. The legendary Gracie family fighting tradition was engraved in the Machado Brothers from a very early age, and Carlos Machado was