Pedro Vianna Jiu-Jitsu Academy [Brazilian Top Team Chicago]
1757 N. Kimball Ave.
Chicago, IL, 60647
Pedro Vianna, Murilo Bustamante
The Brazilian Top Team was established in April of 2000 to develop and create new training techniques for jiu-jitsu, submission wrestling and mixed martial arts.
Through a strict professional work and lots of study on martial arts, Brazilian Top Team firmed itself as the best mixed martial arts team in the world. Brazilian Top Team has inaugurated in April of 2002 its center of training for professional fighters of mixed martial arts.
In the new center the athletes are able to count on professors of: muai thai, boxe, wrestling and the already recognized skills of its professors of mixed martial arts and jiu-jitsu.
In the long run the Brazilian Top Team will use all this infrastructure to renew its team and to train its beginning fighters to become great champions.
Since July 2008, Brazilian Top Team has been exclusively managed by Murilo Bustamante.
ABOUT PEDRO
Pedro Vianna started his martial arts history when he was 7 years old practicing Judo, and since then he has never stopped. At 13 he started taking self defense classes, which made him interested in ground fighting, thus leading his training to Jiu-Jitsu.
In 1991, at the age of 15, he joined The Carlson Gracie Academy with Carlson Gracie Jr. and Marcelo Alonso as his masters. In 1999 he was graduated with a brown belt. From 97 to 99 he owned an academy called Leme Jiu-Jitsu, where he taught under Carlson Gracie Jr.
In 1999, Pedro moved to Chicago, Illinois, USA, and became the main instructor at The Carlson Gracie Jr. School. Then in the same year he practiced MMA (vale tudo) for the first time.
In 2000 he graduated with a black belt under Carlson Gracie Jr. In the following year he returned to Brazil and joined Brazilian Top Team where he taught until June of 2004. Nowadays he is living in Chicago where he is the head of Brazilian Top Team Chicago.
Pedro also gives Jiu-Jitsu private lessons, self defense classes and promotes seminars.



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