Alliance Jiu Jitsu

Alliance is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu team and association founded in 1993 by Romero Jacaré Cavalcanti and his black belt students Fábio Gurgel, Alexandre Paiva and Fernando Gurgel, who chose to unite after years in which their separate academies had competed against one another. Its global headquarters is the Alliance Martial Arts Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, where Cavalcanti is head instructor, with the other main academies in São Paulo under Gurgel and in Rio de Janeiro under Paiva. The founders formalised the Alliance Association in 2014 to standardise teaching and administration, and it has since grown to more than 300 affiliated academies across several continents. The team has won the adult division of the IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship fourteen times, and in 2010 it took the European, Pan American and World championships in the same year, which its source says no other team has achieved.