Carlos Gracie (1902 to 1994) was a Brazilian martial artist and one of the primary developers of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Born in Belém as the eldest of eight children, he learned the basics of Kano jujitsu from Mitsuyo Maeda and his students, then trained formally under the police instructor Donato Pires dos Reis. With his younger brother Hélio and fellow students Luis França and Oswaldo Fadda he helped turn Maeda's judo-based ground fighting into the self-defence system the family called Gracie jiu-jitsu. He opened a school with his brother George in Rio de Janeiro and is widely regarded as the martial-arts patriarch of the Gracie family.
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He purportedly acquired his initial knowledge of Jujitsu by studying in Belem under Maeda
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credited with being one of the primary developers of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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