The Rio Grappling Club is a martial arts team that has clubs in Europe, North America, South Africa and Brasil.
We started officially in 2003 as a students society inside SOAS University of London, founded by the BJJ black belt Roberto Atalla. Soon Mauro Chueng joined the team and the RGC became a network.
Our mission is to provide friendly places where one can train and learn Grappling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo, and help our students improve beyond the scope of martial arts, developing skills that can be used on their lifes.
Our goals are to focus on the technical and competitive aspects of the sports we teach, grow our network without compromising our pursuit for excellence, and become one of the best teams in the world of grappling martial arts.
RGC official grades
Black Belts
Roberto Atalla 3rd degree – Brasil/Poland (Head Coach Europe)
Mauro Chueng 2nd degree – Brasil/Portugal (Head Coach Portugal)
Marco Antonio Chuck 2nd degree – Brasil
Robinson Machado 1st degree – Brasil
Mario Roberto 5st degree – Brasil
Igor Rodrigues – Brasil
Fabio Brum – Brasil
Josias Medeiros – Brasil
Daniel Niemeyer – Brasil
Charles Souza de Oliveira – Brasil
Mariusz Koziej – Poland
Wiekus Swart – South Africa
Bob Karagiannidis – South Africa
Brown Belts
Pedro Soriano – Brasil/USA (Coach California)
Gerry DiSanto – Canada (Coach Canada)
Bernardo Serrini – Italy (Coach Italy)
Krystian Kwiecien – Poland
Piotr Matysiak – Poland
Sergio Magnus – Brasil
Luiz Eduardo Rosa Jr. – Brasil
Cleber Lima – Brasil
Cleiton Braga – Brasil
Leandro Firmino – Brasil
Flavio Machado – Brasil
Nathan Raaths – South Africa
Purple Belts
Eduardo Penha – Brasil
Pedro Viana – Brasil
Mauricio Cavichini – Brasil
Leticia Leite – Brasil
Cezar Rossano – Brasil
Joao Batista dos Santos – Brasil/France
Phil Vandenbeukel – Canada
Dan Ferrelli – Canada
David Ferrelli – Canada
Paul Fediricci – Canada
Vince Cristellie – Canada
Panicos Aravis – Cyprus
Pasquale Pace – Italy
Gianluca Boni – Italy
Matteo Calamandrei – Italy
Matteo Menna – Italy
Fillipo Del Bimbo – Italy
Krzysiek Golaszewski – Poland
Roman Rutkowski – Poland
Arek Matkowski – Poland
Maciej Dydejczyk – Poland
Wiktor Zudrak – Poland
Michal Musiol – Poland
Marek Musiol – Poland
Dariusz Bres – Poland
Tomasz Drozdzik – Poland
Rafal Iwaszczyszyn – Poland
Michal Szelest – Poland
Jakub Kubiszewski – Poland
Tomek Szychowiak – Poland
Jo Raaths – South Africa
Bradley Cossey – South Africa
Dennis Ovcina – South Africa
Liam Cleland – South Africa
Sergio de Freitas – South Africa
Ryan Goncalves – South Africa
Saul Abelson – South Africa
Martyn Booysen – South Africa
Brendon Davis – South Africa
Brandon Leech – South Africa
Jacob Priesto – USA
Scott Jensen – USA
Al Gil – USA
Kevin Velarde – USA
Paul Rojas – USA
List updated on 3rd of September, 2009.
Please notice that people that received belts from our coaches but are not members of our clubs are no listed here, this list comprises the people actively involved in our organization and full members of Rio Grappling Club.
Sorry, too many blue belts to list them all.
