Carlos Gracie Jr.

Carlos Gracie Jr., known as Carlinhos, is a Brazilian ninth-degree red belt practitioner and coach of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a member of the Gracie family, the son of Carlos Gracie, one of the founders of the art. He founded the Confederação Brasileira de Jiu-Jitsu, also known as the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation or IBJJF, a for-profit company that organizes BJJ and submission grappling tournaments including the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship, the Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship and the European Jiu-Jitsu Championship, and he is a co-founder of the Gracie Barra team. He is one of twenty-one children of Carlos Gracie, has three children, Caroline, Kayron and Kyan, and founded and directs Gracie Magazine, a monthly Brazilian jiu-jitsu publication. His instructor lineage runs from Kanō Jigorō to Mitsuyo Maeda to Carlos Gracie Sr. and then to him.