Eduardo Roque cut to the featherweight division to claim a gold medal at the 2021 IBJJF Worlds, a title Roque has coveted since he was a kid. 

We hope you haven’t forgotten about the long-awaited movie about the legend and 5x World Champion Fernando Terere. COVID kept the film crew from traveling to the U.S. for some of their final shots and for a while, it seemed like the whole crew had disappeared. Luckily that is not the case! 

Full-time athlete Yasmira Pires Dias (Yas) from the Brazilian Power Team (BPT) in Portugal, like any other athlete, is hungry for the chance to claim that World Title. When we first met Yas at the 2019 Europeans she was making her way through the crowd on crutches, there to support her teammates in any way she could. Now she’s fully recovered and ready to rise up in the IBJJF rankings, but when she reached out to the organization to see what she could do about these unattainable qualifying points, she was met with indifference.