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an article copied and pasted from www.bjjheroes.com

Fernando Augusto “Terere”

Fernando Augusto, most commonly known as Terere is one of the most charismatic Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighters to have ever stepped on a mat. This multiple time World Medallist was a top “Pound for Pound” best during the early 2000s though an addiction to hard drugs has led him off Jiu Jitsu. He appeard back into the BJJ scene in 2010, giving seminars throughout the World (mainly in Europe).

Fernando Terere in Detail

Full name: Fernando Augusto da Silva

Nickname: Terere is the name of a Brazilian herb used on a certain type of tea. It is dark and highly energetic, just like the Fernando Augusto who was always hyperactive when fighting, thus the name Tererê.

Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Helio Gracie > Rolls Gracie > Romero Cavalcanti > Alexandre Paiva Fernando Augusto Terere

Main Achievements:

• 6x World Champion (black belt: 2000, 2003; brown: 1999, purple: 1998 weight & absolute; blue: 1997)
• 4x World Cup Champion
• Pan American Champion (2004)
• 2x World Silver Medallist (2001, 2004 as a Super Heavyweight – fought 3 classes above his weight)
• Pan American Silver Medallist – Open Weight (2004)

Weight Category: Peso Medio – Middleweight (82Kg – 181lbs)

Association/Team: Team Alliance (1st); Master Team (2nd); Brasa Team (3rd), TT (4th)

Terere Merchandise:

• Terere Kimono

Fernando Terere Biography

Fernando Augusto “Terere” was born on the 15th of November 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There is not much information about Tereré as a child, it is known however that he was raised in poverty on one of the Major Slums in Rio de Janeiro the “Morro do Cantagalo”.

He started training Jiu Jitsu as a way to escape the drug traffic and violence which occurred on his streets with masters Roberto Traven and Alexandre Paiva. His unnatural athletic ability made him a success in competition from the start, winning every major tournament there was to win from blue belt to black belt. He stated in an interview that he always liked to fight from the top position because he is slightly claustrophobic and being on the bottom causes him significant distress, and so every time he hit a bad position he would spin out of it as fast and explosively as possible. He is considered still today the most charismatic Jiu Jitsu fighter to have stepped on a mat, and he often brought the crowd to a roar when he fought.

One of the examples of how Terere played with the crowd occurred in 1998’s World Championships when he was still a purple belt. Both Alliance and Gracie Barra were equal in team points going to the final of the Purple Belt Absolute Division (open weight class), in that final fight, Tererê (Alliance) was matched against a much larger Rolles Gracie (Gracie Barra), but that didn’t stop him from trying his best and the “Tijuca Tenis Club” almost went down as the Alliance supporters celebrated when Terere won the match (Rolls Gracie was disqualified half way through the fight) and team Alliance won the event.

Although always focused in competition, Terere also found time to promote the sport amongst those less privileged creating an academy in the “Morro do Cantagalo” the Favela (slum) in he grew up. The purpose of this academy was to take kids off the streets and off gun crime and this academy proved to be a huge success doing just that. When Terere moved to Sao Paulo a few years later, he left his friend Ricardo Vieira in Charge, and the procect still stands today in the hands of Ricardo.

In 2000 Terere got to the final of the Middleweight Black Belt division (in his first year as a black belt), he faced Nino Schembri who had submitted almost everyone on his way to the final and was a heavy favourite. Terere however did not tremble and using his cleaver tactics (something he was famous for throughout his career), he took two points for a throw and defended inside Nino’s guard to win his first major title as a Black Belt, celebrating in the end with some Elvis Presley dance impersonation, mocking Schembri (whose nickname is Elvis).

In 2002 Fernando was part of an elite group of Alliance Jiu Jitsu black belts who left the team after a dispute with one of the headmasters of Alliance, Favio Gurgel. The dispute was over which tournament to team should focus their training for, the World Championships or the World Cup as they occurred a week apart from each other. As the World Cup offered good prize money to its competitors and the Championships didn’t, Terere and his team mates felt they should support this organization (CBJJO – Confederação de Jiu Jitsu Olimpico) and compete in it, Gurgel however decided against it, as he felt that competing in the Cup was less prestigious then competing in the World Championship. The fighters did not agree and a split was inevitable. And so Master Team was formed. The team that would later split leaving Terere to form a team with another team mate (Eduardo Telles) forming the TT Team.

In 2003 Terere started his MMA Career, with a first bout (and only bout so far) against a veteran by the name of Gleison Tibau (today fighting in the UFC). The fight was very even but the split decision went to Tibau. After diping his toes in Mixed Martial Arts, he went on to win his second World Championship reaching the final with Marcelo Garcia and submitting Marcelo with a triangle (see fight video at the bottom of the page). In 2004 Terere decided to try his luck in the Super Heavyweight Division and he almost pulled it off, losing in the final to an immensely larger opponent in Fabricio Werdum.

2004 was also the year that Terere’s world started crumbling beneath him, after being arrested in the USA supposedly for shouting abuse at an air stewardess, Terere fell into a massive depression induced by drug taking that led to dependence. His life has been incredibly shaky since then, as he abandoned the sport that he loved to live the life of a drug addict. In 2006 Terere moved to the North-eastern town of Natal on the state of Rio Grande do Norte, to escape the environment that was holding him in. He stayed clean for a while and started training again, however a relapse took him back to his crack dependence as he moved back to Rio de Janeiro.

In late 2009 the rumours spread that Fernando Terere was in a rehab clinic and doing better, we can only hope this amazing champion may recover and go back to his winning ways.

Terere returned clean himself from the addiction with the help of his family and the BJJ community who opened raise money to keep Fernando in a clinic until he was fully recovered. He came back to training in 2010 in Brazil. In August 2010 he travelled to the United Kingdom were he spent time teaching his world class Jiu Jitsu.

Terere Interview

This questionnaire occurred on July 2010 thanks to insidebjj.com a spanking jiu jitsu news website who’s owner was kind enough to allow BJJ Heroes to share the interview in exchange of a little help with the translation. Inside BJJ is one of the best websites on Jiu Jitsu, where you can always find out what the latest buzz in the BJJ community is about and up to date interviews. There is also a thank you note to Andre Galvao the man that arranged the meeting with Terere.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
The entire jiu-jitsu community wants to know how you are doing. How is your physical and mental health? How is your training?

Fernando Terere
My strength and conditioning is shaping up in accordance to the training I have been doing so I can start competing as soon as possible. That is my goal.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
You grew up in the favelas of Cantagalo, Rio De Janeiro. Can you tell us how you started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?

Fernando Terere
I was invited to train by one of the coaches to get me off the streets, I accepted and enjoyed it very much. Then I started winning tournaments like the Brazilian Nationals and State Championships and that was that.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
This is a difficult question but everyone wants to know what happened to you. You were an extremely successful champion. There was the 2004 airline incident, the split from Alliance, the split from TT and tales of your bouts with depression and drug dependence. Tell us your story in your words.

Fernando Terere
All this was extremely difficult for me. Having gone though all this, I feel like I have sinned by letting myself get involved with these things. But now new paths are presented before me and people are accepting me back and believing in me again.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
You have stated that you’re coming back to jiu-jitsu. Do you plan on returning to the Pan Ams, Mundials, World Cup Pro tournaments? What team will you return to?

Fernando Terere
I believe that with my training and the preparation I have been doing, I will be ready, very possibly, for the next Mundial (World Championships) but I might compete in other events also.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
Who do you think is the biggest challenge in jiu-jitsu right now?

Fernando Terere
I think my greatest challenge is myself at this point. If I can overcome all that I have been through and dedicate myself more and more to this sport, I will be back at Middleweight competing against the best today.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
In your career you were not only a great athlete but also a gifted instructor having coached great champions like Andre Galvao, Cobrinha, Sergio Moraes, Finfou and many others. How do you see yourself in the near future in the sport, as a fighter or as a coach?

Fernando Terere
At the moment I see myself competing, the work I have been putting on is with that intent, but after that I plan on doing seminars all over the World and to help all the athletes that come to me for help with their techniques.

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
In 2004 you decided to fight the Mundial as a “Pesadissimo” 4 times above your weight class, reaching the final with Fabricio Werdum. Why did you make that decision?

Fernando Terere
I think at that moment in time I was very strong mentally and also physically. I wanted to test myself against bigger opponents. It’s just a shame that I just got silver (Laughs).

Inside BJJ / BJJ Heroes
De Cantagalo Project was a revolutionizing idea in Rio de Janeiro that had a tremendous impact in the impoverished community of the Cantagalo Slums. The idea came from yourself but today is led by Ricardinho. Do you have plans to go back to the project or of having part in a similar project?

Fernando Terere
I will always be connected with social projects. This was the time in which I found myself closer to myself. Taking time to encourage the kids of today to practice Jiu-Jitsu is very important, important for everybody

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Hi everybody, we are very happy for the launch of our site, after several months of hard work to be able to launch a site that will show our image as well as present our lives in jiu jitsu in the best form possible. After months of hard work and adjusting details of the site, the time we had for rest from training we used diligently for the site to be prepared as soon as possible. Through the site you will be able to have access directly to us! You can send your opinions or questions or accompany our affiliates and check out our daily routine in our daily posts! Soon we will launch our virtual academy, which is the main objective of the site so you will be able to have access to all our techniques and the details that we use and teach in our seminars. These details are what matters and we would like to share them with you guys! We have an open mind and we aren’t worried on hiding techniques or anything in our game , we would like to share them in the best way possible for everyone to learn. We bet that you will like it very much! In the next 2 months we will be working on this area and launch it the same way when it is ready! Thank you for everybody who follow us daily through Facebook or Twitter and leaves us messages of encouragement and help. Thank you to all our fans, we are very happy and we hope that you guys will like our site!

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Onra:April21,2011

Hafa Adai,

Registrations is being accepted til the 21st for The Art Of War 6- No Gi Submission Grappling Challenge this coming Saturday, April 23rd

TheMarianas Open date has been reset to June 25th.

After sitting in a discussion with some competitors of our grappling community, it was inspiring to discuss how far Jiujitsu in Guam has grown.

We had been conversing over ideas of who would make a great superfight or exhibition bout in the next Marianas Open and had come to so many feasible ideas

that held water. Keeping in mind that the success of Grappling and MixedMartialArts has been based significantly on its entertainment value—it’s quite impressive to see that our community has developed enough skill to impress and in some way, educate an extremely supportive and growingly critical audience.

Primarily a superfight should be something that would draw interest from not just our grappling community but also from the attending spectators. For the sake of evolution, it should illustrate skill and strategy. For the sake of the audience, It should be entertaining and avoiding any mismatches, it should make competitive sense.

Regarding Marianas Grappling, What we are blessed to  have here is not just the skills from our athletes to entertain but an overall intention from our promoters to educate. This is a way of thinking that has progressively graduated options in Submission grappling and Jiujitsu from offering a way of fighting to paving a way of sport and for some—even encouraging a way of life.

In the past, it may have seemed that Jiujitsu was billed locally as a superior way of total fighting, connecting itself to occasional open challenges. Although that mentality might still exist for some, it really has evolved  into different things.

Once in part defining itself as THE authority in no holds bared fighting, Jiujitsu has since come to be just one of many parts of the highly-evolved Mixed Martial Arts competiton.

Now that local MMA competition and Jiujitsu have taken flight into their own separate destinations—it seems that Saipan is following to suit with the Art-Of-War seeing higher numbers in competitors as well as other assets unfolding in the on-going sophistication of their combat sports environment. It has become a healthy by-product and one of the greatest testaments to Jiujitsu’s positive direction in the Mariana Islands

Does all the recent discussion mean that grappling is the King of local combat sports? Not necessarily. Tae Kwon Do, Kyokushin Karate, Boxing, and Wrestling all have their achievements that deserve reseect and credit too.But we cannot ignore the honorable measures, in such a relatively short scope of time, that have been taken to escort the Grappling industry and athletic grappling identity towards the horizons our young and old aim for in industry and athletics today.

It’s only April and in 2011 alone we have landmark and successful performances such as Team Purebred/lloydIrvin Jiujitsu’s 1stplace team finish at this years Pan Youth Jiujitsu tournament, we have seen several articles of Mike Carbullido’s victory in the PanAms,  we have seen Guam-originated company Shoyoroll’s climb to become one of the world’s top Jiujitsu Kimono manufacturers, and heard of Universal Alliances victories in the Philippines and AbuDhabi.

Abu Dhabi– Are you serious?What’s amazing is that yes, we are.

Efforts are evolving, horizons are expanding, and our Guam flag continues to fly high—inside and above our competitive efforts.

Not too long ago on Guam, it was an elite occasion to intersect with a BrazilianJiuJitsu bluebelt.  Now we have a battalion of blue belts pushing for a company of purple belts motivating a small platoon of brown belts under the leadership of a squad of blackbelts with efforts coming from a collected and collective brigade of proud Guamanians and Chamorus–setting multiple targets for self-improvement and island glorification.

Among other things and in other words…for Strength and Honor.

Much respect.

Thanks for dropping by.

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ROLLAPALOOZA in cooperation with FOKAI Industries
presents

SUMMER BJJ OPEN
(BJJ & No-Gi event)
…April 17, 2011 8AM
Martial Arts Center
College Covered Courts
Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines

Registration:
April 11-16, 2011 (contact us for details)
Registration fee: P500 for one event, P900 for both events
payments may me dropped off at 2f Blue Eagle Gym, Ateneo, Quezon City. (please inform first what time payment will be made)

Late Registration (on the morning of the event 7-8AM): P600 for one event, P1000 for both

GI Event: 8-12AM
(White belt, Blue belt, Purple belt)

Standard IBJJF rules apply.
Straight footlocks are allowed in the white blue and purple belt division. No other leg or footlock will be allowed.
Special Rule on points to encourage action
If score is tied on points and advantage the last person to score the point or advantage will be awarded the win

No-Gi Event: 1-4PM
(Skill level is OPEN)
Straight footlocks are allowed. No other leg or footlock will be allowed.

Weight Divisions:
(Weigh-in for both events will be WITHOUT gi)

below 140lbs
140 to below 160lbs
160 to below 180lbs
180 to below 200lbs
200lbs and above

Women’s division for both events is open weight unless there are enough competitors with extremely varying weight differences.

Please contact us thru ateneobjj@yahoo.com or 0917-8588230.

Thank you and see you all in SUMMER BJJ OPEN!

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ONRA:April7th,2011

Hafa Adai,

Both with successful performances in tryouts for TheUltimateFighter and both with successful records in stateside Mixed Martial Arts– former Guam residents HermanTorrado and JoeDuarte will be facing AJ Matthews and Saad Awad respectively in Strikeforce:Diaz vs.Daley in San Diego this weekend.

Also this weekend Universal Alliance’s Luis Reyes, Jon Tuck  & John Meno will competing in the Abu Dhabi World Pro No Gi Championships.

Good Luck to all our island representatives.

“Now, the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation is proud to follow suit and announce its movement to include the newly recognized wrestling styles of grappling, pankration, submission grappling, beach wrestling and mixed martial arts…

…For this purpose, the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation would like to invite any person who would like to be involved in this exciting new phase of Guam’s participation in international mat competition to a meeting 4 p.m. April 16 at the Guam National Olympic Committee third-floor meeting room in Mongmong-Toto-Maite“

–Neal Kranz—April 2^nd, PacificDailyNews

For more information regarding the April 16 meeting, please call Jerome Fejerang at 483-8917…

Word! What an amazing unfolding of events after Guam’s first committed steps in our island’s enrollment to the Brazilian Jiujitsu and Mixed Martial Arts experience. Roughly 15years in the making and the consistent headlines of competition news and industry ventures from our island all across the world have met yet another catalyst to cement one more masterpiece in opportunity and world recognition.

SubmissionGrappling and Pankration are headed for the Olympics.?.?

QuestionMark or Period—an exclamation point lingers closeby as the mere association of these 9words should be enough to catch the attention of what has been aiming for recognition and acknowledgement by the world’s most authoritative athletic governing body.

Theres been a lot of discussion in the past about Jiujitsu, Grappling or Mixed Martial Arts eventually making it into the Olympics and now closer than ever,  the opportunity is rising and is pointed at our front door.

It’s inviting to hear is that an established organization such as FILA recognizes the skill, technique, and overall athletic value of our talked-about combat sports and has actually introduced to even larger governing bodies what many local fighter-athletes and advocates have been reflecting ever progressively from our local sport’s infancy 15years ago into its adolescence today.

Anticipating that submission grappling, Jiujitsu, and Pankration will find its way into the Opening ceremonies of the Olympics—what measures are we willing to take that Guam truly puts its best feet forward to escort over 15years of momentum into

the worlds greatest arena?

Respectfully speaking–How much consideration and resources will larger organizations like the Guam Visitors Bureau and the Guam National Olympic Committee invest towards helping our jiujitsu,grappling and pankration program(s)?

Respectfully speaking—how hard will our local fighter-athlete development work to put not just its best athletes forward—but our best island-representatives?

With Guam and the Marianas connections already established in world Jiujitsu and world mixed martial arts—how are these relationships and momentum going to come into play now that we might be aiming for the Olympics?

How will the movements of the GAWF gel with the efforts of Guam’S Jiujitsu experience?

Will FILA’s added ingredient to the Grappling and MMA formula improve the industry and social dynamic of our professional and amateur combat sports locally? Internationally?

Surely there are a lot more inquries that will rise inside and outside of that April 16^th meeting but for now –Just some pretty cool questions for some really cool things that’s cool to see happen for some pretty cool sports.

Cool.

Thanks for dropping by.

TheNewHorizonsOfGuamGrappling:via NealKranz

Exciting opportunities arise: New wrestling styles will be brought into wider spotlight

Welcome to the New World of Wrestling.

For the last few years this slogan has been displayed on the website of FILA, the International Wrestling Federation, as well as just about every piece of correspondence it produces. Now, the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation is proud to follow suit and announce its movement to include the newly recognized wrestling styles of grappling, pankration, submission grappling, beach wrestling and mixed martial arts.

So far FILA, the only organization recognized by the International Olympic Committee to oversee all styles of wrestling, has not moved to have the IOC consider any of these styles for inclusion in the Olympic Games. Still, some people involved see that possibility as the next inevitable step in FILA’s quest to expand and strengthen the stance of wrestling in the world of international sport. So what does this mean for Guam? It means a lot.

Everyone knows that there are a huge number of people practicing these styles at a number of gyms across the island, and rarely a day goes by without some form of media attention being paid to a Guam athlete’s accomplishment on the mat. Logically, the first step to making the most of this wonderful opportunity for the island is to get as many people together that are already involved in these styles and to plan the way forward.

For this purpose, the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation would like to invite any person who would like to be involved in this exciting new phase of Guam’s participation in international mat competition to a meeting 4 p.m. April 16 at the Guam National Olympic Committee third-floor meeting room in Mongmong-Toto-Maite.

With so much mat knowledge and mat experience on the island, it is truly exciting to think of the possibilities for Guam’s athletes, especially if the people with the knowledge and passion for these styles decide to get involved on the ground floor.

Once this initial planning is done, the next step is to have as many people on Guam become as knowledgeable as possible about the intricacies of the styles being promoted by FILA. To this end, there is a multi-country coaches’ clinic scheduled for this May at the Spike 22 gym in Tamuning.

This clinic will bring together officials and coaches from across the Pacific. It will include as many coaches as possible from Guam who want to learn more about these styles. This is a great opportunity for all people involved in any form of mat sport to get first-hand training in what is sure to be the sporting styles of the future.

And where will it go from there? Well, what comes next remains to be seen. Fans of the Oceania Wrestling Championships will be glad to hear that there are plans to have grappling in next year’s event in Canberra, Australia.

Also, plans are in full swing to have the 2013 Oceania Championships here on Guam and to include grappling in the program, as well as the traditional styles of international wrestling.

Exciting opportunities arise: New wrestling styles will be brought into wider spotlight
These two events alone will bring the new styles of wrestling into a much wider, regional spotlight and will provide a chance for the countries of the Oceania region to see Guam shine. No matter what happens, though, it is extremely exciting to think of the new opportunities Guam’s athletes are being given to do their best and to represent the island.

For more information regarding the April 16 meeting, please call Jerome Fejerang at 483-8917.

Neal Kranz is president of the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federatio

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