BJJ BELTCHECKER | Guilherme De Paula (720 points)

Guilherme Darques de Paula

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Guilherme De Paula  VERIFIED
Black belt 2nd degree  Pending
13 year(s) and 11 month(s) of training

August 7, 1990 (age 35)
Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Lineage: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Hélio Gracie > Rolls Gracie > Romero Cavalcanti > Roberto Traven > Carlos David Oliveira > Angelo Nardini > Maximiliano Alcântara > Guilherme Darques
I've started jiu-jitsu because a friend started and invited me in. He stopped I continued... I've been in a city small bjj team, my professor own team (which didn't lasted much), GFteam (along with my professor) and now I'm part of bjj globetrotters and consider myself independent. Some choices of my professor made us split ways, but I still respect and owe him a lot. Finding beltchecker made me regret for not keeping more organized photos from my bjj journey. Backups are a must! I practiced a little bit of wrestling too with a cuban coach which became a really good friend. I didn't competed more than a handful of times, it didn't motivated me much, even tough I like very much to train hard. Now I do consider preparing and getting into some tournaments. I'm also flirting with the idea to begin studying judo. I'm actually studying Physical Education with focus on pedagogy in a university where I'm responsible for a bjj extension project for other students and general community too. I do enjoy to talk about everything related to bjj, sports science, pedagogy, psicology and philosophy. I can speak a little bit of English, Spanish and now I'm learning Deutsch. If everyone wanna talk about bjj, those topics and share histories I'm up to video calls. Finding bjj globetrotters and this site was amazing! BJJ needs a revolution and those two initiatives contribute a lot to it. If you guys wanna know any info or have suggestions to improve my profile here I'll be glad to hear and improve.
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No promotion evidence with Maximiliano (or his signature) and also missing lineage. Who promoted Maximiliano to BB and when? Was he a 2:nd degree BB at the time of your promotion or only a 1:st degree?
1 month(s) ago
Hey Johan. I don't have his signature cause he never issued his own certificates. He himself has a BB certificate of FJJGO which is the same federation that I have and also from another federation from Brasília, if I'm not mistaken. Didn't mentioned his lineage cause we have splinted in pretty bad terms, involving even threats. When I was promoted he was 2nd degree BB. Note that certificate I have was not signed by him. If there's still doubts I'm willing to clarify. By
1 month(s) ago
You claim to have split on pretty bad terms, supposedly before even reaching the time for 1:st stripe in 2021? Yet, you have a video on your profile showing you had a friendly roll with him, labeled with a date only four days ago (same day you wrote your last answer here)? That is not a title on the video that Youtube automatically assigns. So if you had a friendly roll with him just four days ago, why can't you get him to confirm a black belt promotion of you?
1 month(s) ago
Hey Johan, to clarify. I never broke my relation with Maximiliano (Max). The split happened between Max (and hiss side of team, including me and his professor). The video I posted was taken in my class at the extension project Caminhos Marciais FEFD-UFG few weeks ago, Max was living in Amazonas, till this video I did not saw him for more than a year. I also found some photos of myself with him and others at blue belt, purple and brown. I'm searching others from my graduation day. As Max was
3 week(s) ago

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My current class at an extension project in Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) at Faculdade de Educação Física e Dança (FEFD)

Promotion history

August 19, 2024
1 year(s) 3 month(s) 22 day(s)
(Promotion by time served)
August 19, 2021
3 year(s) 0 month(s) 0 day(s)
(Promotion by time served)
I accept this promotion based on time.
August 19, 2018 - Goiânia/Goiás/Brasil
3 year(s) 0 month(s) 0 day(s)
Promoted by: Maximiliano Alcantara
That certificate is from the bjj federation of my state, it's signed my the federation director and GFteam leader here along with Master Julio Cesar one of GFTeam creators. Maximiliano Alcantara graduated me from white through black belt. Since I was a blue belt he never charged me for classes or belts, but I was with him everyday cleaning the mats, teaching for free in social projects and helping him with classes.
January 12, 2017 - Goiânia/Goiás/Brasil
1 year(s) 7 month(s) 7 day(s)
Promoted by: Maximiliano Alcantara
In my brown belt I got 3 stripes, I just remembered I got then from old photos. I never liked social media very much by that time one student of mine created a instagram account for me (I use it till today, lol. I barely feed it).
Stripe 3: December 1, 2017
January 12, 2015 - Goiânia/Goiás/Brasil
2 year(s) 0 month(s) 0 day(s)
Promoted by: Maximiliano Alcantara
In the purple belt I maintained my rythm training 2x per day 5 times a week and got my first class which was formed by other lower belts which trained with my professor too.
January 1, 2013 - Goiânia/Goiás/Brasil
2 year(s) 0 month(s) 11 day(s)
Promoted by: Maximiliano Alcantara
I did not received any stripe in my blue belt. I got it and a week after I tore my ACL, limped for a good amount of time. Until I got it reconstructed my right knee always poped of leading to a great amount of pain. By my blue belt I was training everyday 2 times a day which summed to 4 to 5 hours a daily, rested on saturdays and sundays where my professor and mates used to run on unpaved roads nearby my city.
January 1, 2012 - Goiânia/Goiás/Brasil
1 year(s) 0 month(s) 0 day(s)
My first professor was Sebastião Carlos which was at that time a purple belt, he also was a professor at ESEFFEGO (Escola Superior de Educação Física e Fisioterapia de Goiás), which is a state university. I trained with him for 5 or 6 months until he stoped teaching to focus on his doctorate studies which if I'm not mistaken was in sociology. He was also a bodybuilder and crazy strong. Then Sebastião introduced me to Maximiliano Alcantara Pereira which awarded 3 stripes on my white belt and graduate me from white to black belt. That time I started training on a daily basis from monday to saturday 2 hours a day.
Stripe 2: December 1, 2012

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"Nice pictures and certificate 👌🏻"
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"Legit profile congrats on the stripe"
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"Looks very legitimate to me!"
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"Looks legit :)"
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"I don't know Guilherme, but there seems to be enough evidence to verify rank. :)"
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"Well documented time in each belt, as well as photographic evidence of training over the years. Welcome to Beltchecker Professor!"
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"A legit black belt "
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Me Rolling with my teacher, Maximiliano Alcântara in October 2025

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Me Rolling with my teacher, Maximiliano Alcântara in October 2025

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