School networks: the directories

Gracie Barra is one of the largest Brazilian jiu-jitsu school networks in the world.

GFTeam — the Grande Família — is the Rio de Janeiro competition powerhouse led by Master Júlio César Pereira, carrying the Oswaldo Fadda lineage that grew up outside the Gracie family.

The Carlson Gracie Team carries the legacy of Carlson Gracie — the family's great competition pioneer, whose Copacabana academy shaped a generation of champions — with official schools on every continent.

Gracie University is the Gracie family's online academy and its network of Certified Training Centers, built around the Gracie Combatives curriculum.

Nova União is the Rio de Janeiro team that André Pederneiras and Wendell Alexander founded in 1995, with licensed academies across Brazil and an affiliate map that reaches five continents.

10th Planet Jiu Jitsu is the no-gi grappling system Eddie Bravo founded in Los Angeles in 2003, taught through a worldwide network of affiliated schools.

Checkmat is the team the Vieira brothers built into a world-title contender; this directory carries its European affiliations arm — the one Checkmat roster that is publicly readable — while its Brazilian and US rosters sit behind walls.

Gracie Humaitá is the school network descended from Hélio Gracie's own academy in Rio de Janeiro — named for the Humaitá neighborhood where it stands — carried on by his sons and their black belts.

Renzo Gracie's academy network grew out of his Midtown Manhattan school — one of the most influential rooms in American jiu-jitsu — and spans Renzo-operated academies and long-standing partner schools.

Atos Jiu-Jitsu is the competition powerhouse André Galvão and Ramon Lemos founded in 2008, headquartered in San Diego and teaching through affiliate schools worldwide.

The Caio Terra Association is the affiliate network of world champion Caio Terra — Brasa CTA on competition rosters — run from his San Jose academy and spanning affiliate schools from Hawaii and Quebec to Serbia, Suriname and Taiwan.

The Roger Gracie Academy is the school network of Roger Gracie — a ten-time black-belt world champion, widely counted among the greatest competitors in the sport's history — headquartered in Hammersmith, London.