Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
VACIRCA BROTHERS JIU-JITSU The Vacirca Story Part 2 Š 2016 Franco Gehriger-Nagel
Vacirca,
Sandra
In late autumn 1989, it was the first time that I came in touch with the Gracie's and their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Sifu Paul Vunak, founder of Progressive Fighting Systems (PFS), invited me to participate in one of his training with Rickson Gracie at that time. Although the founder of JeetKune-Do, the late master Bruce Lee, had worked intensively on ground fighting and studied different form of Martial Arts related to Grappling, these techniques were at that time not my preferred ones, but that would be changed on this very special day. The simple, family-like and respectful atmosphere at training Master Rickson training place motivated me within short time to train with the Gracie family members and their cousins the Machado's and to definitely give to the Brazilian method of Jiu-Jitsu a chance.