First non-Gracie

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What was the first non-Gracie BJJ school in Brazil? How did that development come about?

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I’d say it’s fairly easy to go back through their lineage (one thing I really respect about BJJ), do a bit of digging on BJJ.org.

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There was something I read a while back about Maeda teaching Luiz Franca Filho directly, even though bjj.org listed him (retrospectively?) as being a student of Carlos Sr.

http://www.onzuka.com/graciehistory.html

Hell, if Luiz Franca taught Oswaldo Fadda (9th black) who is deceased - I can believe that.

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I’m not sure if he’s the first, but Francisco Mansor is one of the first:

http://www.bjj.org/a/people/mansor-francisco.html

Kioto BJJ.